Hi all,
So our strategic planning meeting is well over. We're still in the
process of putting together a post-meeting plan/report, but I thought
I should post up a summary of the results from the survey. Thank you
to everyone who filled it out, your feedback is sincerely appreciated
(in survey form or otherwise!).
So here is the summary:
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2009_member_goals_survey
I realise the conclusions are a bit limited given the limited
responses (my fault given the limited time I gave people to respond),
but I think they are still useful indications.
cheers
Brianna
2009/2/25 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
The committee is having a bit of strategic planning 'retreat' meeting
this weekend.[1] Liam is joining Sarah, Brian and I in Melbourne.
John, Nathan, Gideon and Andrew[2] are unable to attend but we will
take note of their input
As a member or interested observer your opinions are also needed. As a
member organisation and one reliant on volunteers we must give due
weight to projects and ideas favoured by members. Therefore, your
input would be appreciated in this brief survey:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cGkyT3UycWYwT0RyZzdVOWlRRFROTXc6MA.
The survey is anonymous unless you choose to provide your name and
email (useful if you want to volunteer for some particular project :))
In the survey I have listed 11 reasonably big projects that have
been suggested over the past few months. They are:
# Support a bid for hosting Wikimania 2011
# Host a WikiConf in Canberra in late 2009
# Run Wikipedia Academy events for the general public
# Run Wikipedia Academy events for academics
# Run events (e.g. talks) for educators
# Develop and sell Wikimedia-related merchandise
# Create a 'Wikimedia for Australian schools' selection
# Create classroom kit for teaching Wikipedia on the NSW HSC syllabus
# Organise backstage pass style tours of organisations such as museums
# Concentrate on cultivating positive and broad press, and develop
more promotional material (press kits) for the Wikimedia projects
# Host regular meetups in as many cities as possible, and online
events such as editing competitions for members and IRC meetings
There is also a section for other big ideas, or you can always reply here.
:)
During the retreat,
The idea is not to decide *EVERYTHING* WMAU will do during 2009, which
would be impossible - mainly because much of what we will do will be
member-driven, not ctte-driven - but to at least choose some
direction, choose which projects to concentrate on and which to put
aside for now, and figure out our reasoning for these decisions. Then
hopefully we will feel a bit more purposeful, and not overwhelmed by
the possibilities and pushed about like grass in the wind. 2009 is
also a fairly short term for this ctte - 10 months at most as our next
AGM must be between July and November.
It is worth having big ideas. The Wikimedia Foundation has introduced
a grants funding process for chapters
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants and
there are organisations in Australia such as the auDA Foundation which
I certainly believe we could gain funding from, having joint funding
from WMF and another org would give us quite a good position indeed.
But I think it is proper to choose your plans and then find funds
accordingly, rather than vice versa. We will talk about money issues
at the retreat but it will be in tandem with making plans.
Anyway I look forward to seeing what everyone thinks, so please do
take a minute to fill out the survey
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cGkyT3UycWYwT0RyZzdVOWlRRFROTXc6MA.
and comment on it here or in private email if you like.
cheers,
Brianna
[1] I note that ctte members have chosen to cover their own costs for
participating in this retreat.
[2] I'm not sure we took the time to announce this properly - see
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:Committee_(2009_January_15)#Inviting_non-voting_participants_to_committee_discussions
- in mid January we chose to invite Gideon and Andrew as non-voting
participants in the committee. So thanks to them for accepting these
positions :) and I count their input equally as with other ctte
members.
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