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Talk:Affiliate Chairpersons meeting August 12 2017

Invitation Affiliate Chairpersons meeting August 12, 2017

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Time: August 12 at 11 am to 1 pm
Place: Wikimania 2017, Montreal, Canada. Conference Venue, Level 2, Salon 2.

This meeting is open only for chairs of chapters and thematic organizations. See talkpage for an overview.

Present: (Please list your attendence)

Country
code 		Organisation /
Chapter 		Chairperson Attendee Role of Attendee
(if not chair) 		Comment
  WMF Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher ED WMF
  WMF Wikimedia Foundation Christophe Henner Christophe Henner Chair Board of Trustees
  WMF Wikimedia Foundation María Sefidari María Sefidari Vice-chair Board of Trustees
  AM Wikimedia Armenia
  AR Wikimedia Argentina Ivana Lysholm Vice-Chair
  AT Wikimedia Österreich Alexander Wagner Magdalena Reiter Board member
  AU Wikimedia Australia Gideon Digby Tom Hogarth Board member
  BD Wikimedia Bangladesh
  BE Wikimedia Belgium Geertivp (not present) Romaine Board member
  CA Wikimedia Canada Benoit Rochon Benoit Rochon Chair
  CH Wikimedia CH Dorian (not present)
  CL Wikimedia Chile Marco Correa Marco Correa
  CZ Wikimedia Česká republika Vojtěch Dostál Jan Groh member of the board
  DE Wikimedia Deutschland Tim Moritz Hector Tim Moritz Hector
  DK Wikimedia Danmark
  EE Wikimedia Eesti Sven-Erik Soosaar Sven-Erik Soosaar Board chair
  ES Wikimedia España Santiago Navarro Sanz Santiago Navarro Sanz
  FI Wikimedia Suomi
  FR Wikimédia France Samuel Le Goff Envel Le Hir Member of WMFr
Delegated by the board 		As announced on chairpersons@
  HU Wikimédia Magyarország
  ID Wikimedia Indonesia Biyanto Rebin (not attend)
  IL Wikimedia Israel Itzik Edri Itzik Edri
  IN Wikimedia India
  IT Wikimedia Italia Laurentius (talk) Laurentius (talk)
  MK Shared Knowledge (Wikimedia Macedonia) Kiril Simeonovski Kiril Simeonovski
  MO Wikimedia Macau
  MX Wikimedia México
  NL Wikimedia Nederland Frans Grijzenhout Frans Grijzenhout
  NO Wikimedia Norge Hogne Neteland Hogne Neteland
  PL Wikimedia Polska Tomasz Ganicz Marek Stelmasik or Michał Buczyński Treasuer/Vicepresident
  PT Wikimedia Portugal
  RS Wikimedia Србије Filip Maljković Filip Maljković
  RU Викимедиа РУ, Wikimedia RU
  SE Wikimedia Sverige
  TW Wikimedia Taiwan Hsiang-Tai Chien (not attend) Liang-chih ShangKuan, Shih Han Lin Board Member
  UA Wikimedia Ukraine
  GB Wikimedia UK Josie Fraser Doug Taylor Board member
  US-DC Wikimedia District of Columbia Kirill Lokshin Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Board member
  US-NYC Wikimedia New York City
  UY Wikimedia Uruguay
  VE Wikimedia Venezuela
  ZA Wikimedia South Africa
CAT Amical Wikimedia User:Barcelona User:Lluis tgn Secretary
SK Slovakia User:KuboF User:Jetam2 Board member



Agenda (second draft July 26)

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Opening and introductions

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  • Opening at 11:00 hrs
  • Group photo
  • Notes on Etherpad

Notes previous Chairpersons meeting, April 1, 2017

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Check the Notes of the Affiliate Chairpersons meeting April 1 2017.

Strategy update

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Katherine Maher is invited for this part of the meeting. An update of the strategy process is given by her and Christophe on Friday evening. During our meeting we can discuss with here the role of the chapters in movement strategy process.

  • Outcome: better understanding how we can contribute
  • Time: 30 min.

Getting to know each other (a little better)

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Role play, moderated by Itzik Edri

  • Outcome: understanding of each others background and motivation.
  • Time: 15 min

Value and purpose of the chairpersons meetings

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Discussion about value and purpose of the Affiliate Chairpersons meetings

  • Outcome: shared view on the purpose of chair meetings.
  • Time: 30 min

Chapter development

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What can we do to encourage each other

  • Outcome: draft list of possible actions
  • Time: 15 min

Closing

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  • Wrap up.
  • Any other business

Closing at 13:00 hrs


Preliminary Agenda (July 21) with list of ideas

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  • Frans is a candidate for moderating the meeting.
  • Notes on etherpad is proposed.
  • Is it possible to access this meeting online?
  • Picture of the attendees?

Please add your topics and your comments.
Due to limit of time schedule, not all topics may be handled in the meeting, therefore a prioritizing of the agenda topics is important.

Notes previous chairpersons meeting, April 1, 2017
The chairs' meeting of April 1 Notes are available on meta: Notes_of_the_Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_April_1_2017
Roundtable presentations of the chapters achievements.
See also mail from Itzik
Strategy update.
How can the chapters best practice and present the strategy in their local geography.
 
Freedom of Panorama.
Judgment i BUS v. Wikimedia Sverige case
How can the chapters work in local juridical and politics.
The trouble in Wikimedia France
What can we learn, What is the best practice among the chapters.
Coordination between the chapters and the "Wikimedia Entities"
(E.g. Wikipedia Education Collaborative). How to make it work?
 
Existing chapters, both founded (dark blue) and approved (dark turquoise), planned chapters (green), and chapters in discussion (light blue) as of 4 March 2015.
Process of recognition of Chapters and User groups
  • As discussed in Berlin.
  • No chapter has been approved since 2014.
Board of Chairs
Should the chairs have their own board? The summit might be too big to be self organized.
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