Hi Cascadians, Peaceray, Brianhe and I met this evening. We agreed on a multi-pronged approach in response to WMF comments:
* We plan to reorganize how we do our programmatic and administrative tasks, in order to distribute the workload among more people. This is dependent upon the agreement of a variety of people to take on more work like our 501c3 application and event logistics. More details will be forthcoming, hopefully by Monday. * The Board will internally develop a written response to WMF comments, indicating a willingness to realign some plans with WMF wishes while noting some places of questions or differing views. This will probably be published in late May or in June after approval by our board. * While at the Wikimedia Conference, I will discuss with other affiliates and WMF ways in which we believe the WMF grantmaking processes and limitations can be improved and streamlined. Regards, Pine On May 7, 2015 10:37 AM, "Monika Sengul-Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the shout out, Pine. :-) I'm pretty thrilled this Inspire > Campaign proposal was funded. The idea came out of the February I Love To > You Edit-a-thon, and was developed in partnership with Sage Ross > (Ragesoss!). We'll work together with Wiki Ed on the classroom partnership. > Will definitely keep this group updated on how the process goes, we'll > really be getting started in mid-July, but all the plans will be coming > together in the meantime. If you have any questions, or would like to > collaborate, please feel free to send me a PM. > > I'd look forward to sharing more about this in person at Cafe Allegro, but > I'll be down in San Diego (again!) when the next Cascadia meeting is > happening. That said, I am excited for this and for future events with the > UW libraries as well. Way to go on the Visual Editor, Pine and all, good > stuff is happening. > > Best, > Monika > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > * We piloted VisualEditor training at the most recent edit-a-thon that we > > held at UW. The feedback from the librarians was positive. I'll work on > > turning the training into a video format soon, possibly during my travel > to > > the Wikimedia Conference. I am considering producing a PDF version first > > because that is easier to do, and a video version second. > > > > * The UW librarians are interested in continuing to partner with us. More > > info about that during the next few weeks. > > > > * We received feedback from WMF about the current version of our proposed > > annual plan on Meta. At this point, WMF is willing to fund portions but > not > > all of our plan. Our Board is in the process of scheduling a meeting to > > discuss our next steps. > > > > * You may remember that Monika mentioned on this list ( > > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-cascadia/2015-March/000492.html > > ) > > her grant proposal for an Inspire campaign project "Full Circle Gap > > Protocol: Addressing the ‘Unknown Unknowns". WMF has awarded funding for > > this project. Congratulations, Monika. (: > > > > * We will have our regular social meetup at Cafe Allegro on May 26th this > > month, later than usual. At this meetup, I plan to share what I learned > at > > the Wikimedia Conference and any potential new partnerships or > initiatives. > > We can also discuss our plans for the remainder of this year, including > > potential future events at the UW libraries. I hope to see many of you on > > the 26th. (: > > > > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > > -- > Monika Sengul-Jones > www.monikasengul.com > (206) 715-2320 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
