North American Wikimedians/Hub founding/What we expect afterward

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What should we expect from, and after, making an agreement to form an North American hub (NAhub)?

  • We expect WMNY, DC, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, several state-size user groups, and a few thematic groups to join. A list of about 15 regional affiliates in North America is here. (It's not quite current. Let's update that.) Let's start the hub when we have 8-10 signing on.

What should we expect to happen after an agreement?

  • More wiki-related events and/or more awareness of events
  • A concise monthly newsletter will list announcements and news items from across the continent, e.g. North American Wikimedians/News
  • Could show events on a calendar too
  • Wikifests quarterly? North American Wikimedians/Wikifests
  • The hub will support the NA conference and report on activities to WMF and the public through the conference user group
  • WikiDC plans to get WMF funding to offer small/rapid/easy grants for events across the continent
  • We'll find ways to combine training/event/professional materials
  • We'd like to offer a GLAM camp again (training for early-or-mid-career GLAM pros)
  • Support across affiliates for governance purposes, e.g. advice on how to run things, mutual financial audits
  • Combined policy advocacy
  • Wikimedia DC can sponsor and run a GLAM camp on behalf of the Hub in 2025, and hopes to coordinate to create a hackathon.