Hi community members, I'm wondering how many people might be interested in having an IRC meeting regarding the community's relationship to WMF and potentially developing our own strategic plan that would be independent of WMF. In the past few days I've heard some defense of WMF but mainly criticism and pessimism, especially people recalling past hurts and feeling powerless to negotiate with WMF. Perhaps it's time that we in the community create our own strategic plan and develop strategic options.
Please note that this would be a long-term planning meeting and we are not likely to make major decisions, but we would start brainstorming and laying some foundations. Topics of possible discussion regarding our relationship with WMF: 1. Strategic options, such as finding alternative organizations to WMF for hosting Wikimedia sites or creating a new hosting organization that is aligned with community values. 2. Activism at the Board and grassroots levels. Topics of possible discussion regarding other strategic issues: 3. Internal reform of the community, such as a fresh look at Wikimedia's founding principles and the Five Pillars, including civility. 4. What we can do as a community about our active editor statistics. I expect this would be an interesting meeting if people are interested in participating, and I hope that we would brainstorm some ideas about how we want to move forward on all of these questions and others if we have time. If there are many participants, which would be *great*, then we may need additional meetings or to move the conversation on-wiki. If you're interested, you can respond on list but feel free to respond to me off-list also. I'm just trying to get a sense of the interest level of the community. I hear a lot of people being upset but what I feel we need to know is how many people would be interested in creating a long-term strategic plan and brainstorming strategic options. Thanks, Pine _______________________________________________ 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/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
