What a coincidence! We're just talking about this in Wikimedia Argentina and Iberocoop (I've forwarded your email from wikitech-l to them).
I'm interested and looking forward to working with you on these groups :-) Regards, Patricio On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, here you have a draft about MediaWiki Groups, and implicitly > MediaWiki reps: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups> > > Imagine > > MediaWiki Amsterdam Group > MediaWiki HTML5 Group > MediaWiki Women Group > ... > > MediaWiki groups organize open source community activities within the > scope of specific topics or geographical areas. They extend the capacity of > the Wikimedia Foundation in technical events, training, promotion and other > technical activities benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the > MediaWiki software. > > This proposal is being discussed in the MediaWiki context and goes in > accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation short term goals [1]. Feedback > from the wider Wikimedia community is welcome, especially on how to combine > these groups with chapters and other existing Wikimedia entities. > > Note that these are intended to be _just_ groups, not formal organizations > legally constituted. We are looking after simple processes for creation and > management of these groups with basically zero budget. > > We expect these groups to become a main delegation/empowerment tool to > organize more, more distributed and more diverse technical activities. They > fit perfectly in the Wikimedia Foundation strategy and the way the > Wikimedia movement grows. > > Please bring your ideas to the discussion page - or here. Thank you! > > [1] Find mentions to "user groups" at https://www.mediawiki.org/** > wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/**2012-13_Goals#Milestones_by_**quarter_17<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestones_by_quarter_17> > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l