Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-30 Thread Claudia Garád
+1 Thank you Erik. A serious remark on the clone discussion: Instead of trying to copy a status quo I strongly suggest to move on and embrace the idea of something or someone new: change is not always easy - sometimes even scary - but change is inevtiable, necessary and good. Am

[Wikimedia-l] 2014 General assembly of WMAT

2014-06-17 Thread Claudia Garád
Österreich Claudia Garád Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Magyarország Board Elections

2014-12-02 Thread Claudia Garád
Gratulálok! And thank you Balazs et al. for your hard work over the last years Claudia for WMAT Am 02.12.2014 um 11:30 schrieb Balázs Viczián: Hi all, WMHU had its general assembly last Saturday where a new board was elected for the 2014 December - 2016 December period. Gervai, Péter -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Claudia Garád
Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Claudia Garád
Hi Sebastian, are you looking for this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire Best Claudia Am 02.12.2014 um 18:03 schrieb Sebastian Moleski: Hi Anasuya, Is there by any chance a public list of the questions asked in the survey? I've just clicked

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France board handbook

2014-12-11 Thread Claudia Garád
Thanks for sharing Emeric and Jean-Fred! I would love to see a translation of this important resource and I'm sure it could be useful for others as well. :-) Best Claudia Am 11.12.2014 um 07:20 schrieb Emeric Vallespi: Hi, and thanks for your support :) Sure Winifred, I will add a learning

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Organizational effectiveness tool for Wikimedia organizations (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations)

2014-12-16 Thread Claudia Garád
Thank you Winifred! I think an extension of the deadline is a good call :-) Good news for everyone who plans to do this with German-speaking community members: We translated the questions on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire/de Season's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Evaluation by WMF of Wiki Loves Monuments is failing to understand the community

2015-05-06 Thread Claudia Garád
Hi Sam, I am sure there are figures and stories that the various orgs collect and publish. But they are spread across different wikis and websites and/or languages. E.g. many of the FDC orgs are looking into ways to demonstrate these more qualitative aspects of our work (e.g. by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

2015-06-08 Thread Claudia Garád
After each FDC round the WMF conducted a survey among the participating organizations in which we were asked to give estimates on these questions (as far as I can recall). I'm not sure whether and where the results have been published but there might be some (rough) data available on this.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC annual plan grant recommendations for 2014-2015 Round 2

2015-06-02 Thread Claudia Garád
Thank you Dariusz and all and the other outgoing FDC members for your hard and impressive work! I think the latest round of decisions proves just how much effort the committee puts into making thoughtful and independent decisions. Best regards from Vienna Claudia -- Claudia Garád

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-19 Thread Claudia Garád
Hi Andrea, thanks for the update. We were in the same situation last year, including all the negative side effects mentioned already. The worst part was to explain our long-standing and important partner the Federal Monuments Office that we can't have the banner time at cruical dates in

[Wikimedia-l] 1. International Wikisource Conference, Vienna - November 20-22: Registration open

2015-09-29 Thread Claudia Garád
inform other interested volunteers and partner institutions. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Vienna! Claudia, Andrea and David -- Claudia Garád Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien 0699 141 28615 www.wikime

[Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

2017-09-28 Thread Claudia Garád
[4]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/31/vienna-hackathon-learnings/ -- Claudia Garád Executive Director *Wikimedia Österreich* Stolzenthalergasse /1 1070 Wien www.wikimedia.at ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedi