Perhaps there will be a site visit from Cascadia Wikimedians to the consultants' office this year, and perhaps we can invite them to join us at the (usually) monthly Seattle meetups. (:
Pine On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Last week's update was late, this one is early - the Foundation staff are > together this week for the Developers Summit and All Hands meeting the next > two days, so we'll be doing more stuff face to face, learning and sharing. > So, with no further ado: > > As I mentioned in past updates, we have been working to identify the > external experts which will serve as the Lead Architects for this process. > I am very excited to introduce you to williamsworks > <http://williamsworks.com/>! > > williamsworks[1] has more than a decade of experience working with > nonprofits, companies, and philanthropists around the world. Their team is > made up of folks with deep experience in philanthropy, communications, > public policy, and global development. They are based out of Seattle, with > a global team in places such as Nairobi and Berlin. We're going to be > working with a dedicated team, including their founder, Whitney Williams, > on this process. > > williamsworks will be responsible for coordinating all the various moving > parts and needs of the strategy process. They'll be working closely with > folks in the Foundation, community, and myself to help us identify the > information we need and the conversations we need. They'll be leading us > through parsing information and making decisions to help us arrive at a > shared direction. > > To begin this work process, I'm delighted that they'll be joining us at > this week's All Hands. They've been meeting with teams from across the > Foundation today in order to get to know folks. Tomorrow and Friday they'll > be here to listen and learn about our culture and mission. > > Over the past few weeks, we evaluated williamsworks among other candidates > according criteria that reflects our needs as a movement. This included > whether the candidate had created successful organizational or movement > strategies before, whether they demonstrated a strong understanding of the > need to build an inclusive process, and whether the candidate had > international and nonprofit experience. (More specific criteria is outlined > on Meta-Wiki.[2]) > > The next step is building out and confirming the core team facilitating the > work ahead. Please stay tuned to this list and the Movement Strategy Portal > on Meta-Wiki for more details.[3] > > Katherine > > PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ > movement/2017/Updates/11_January_2017_-_Update_4_on_ > Wikimedia_movement_strategy_process > > > [1] http://williamsworks.com > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ > movement/2017/Team#Criteria_for_Lead_Architect > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017 > > -- > Katherine Maher > > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
