Wikimedia Conference 2015/Programme/15
15: AffCom and Affiliates
How to move forward
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AffCom members discussing with the audience
- What was this session about?
The AffCom provided space and the opportunity to ask questions about its work.
- What are the next steps to be taken?
This Affiliations Committee is discussing its internal structure and will publish eventual changes in the coming months.
- Who is the person to reach out to?
no specific person, but you easily contact the members of the Affiliations Committee in any case.
- Photos
- Useful links for your preparation
- RfC on Wikimedia user groups approval process and agreements
- Board decision regarding Chapter moratorium (November 24, 2013)
- AffCom session at the Wikimedia Conference 2014
Session Documentation
- Original Description
A discussion of what the Affiliations Committee can do to help the Wikimedia affiliates
- Desired Outcome
- AffCom and Wikimedia affiliates come to a common understanding on the relationship between AffCom and the affiliates
- Audience
- All conference participants
- Session Format
- Discussion; 60 min
- Speaker
- All present members of the Affiliations Committee (Anirudh Singh Bhati, Carlos Colina, Galileo Vidoni, Ganesh Paudel, Gregory Varnum, Josh Lim, Kirill Lokshin, Manuel Schneider, Salvador Alcantar, Tanvir Rahman and Ting Chen)
- Summary of the session
On Thursday (May 14) and Friday (May 15), prior/parallel to the conference, the Affiliations Committee held its annual real life meeting. As many issues and questions around the committee were to be decided in this two-day-meeting, the content of the session was highly dependent on it and couldn’t be prepare long time in advance.
After a self-introduction of all members of the committee (Emily was not present), the stage was opened for questions from the audience. Most questions were strongly related to the recognition process of user groups. Questions were raised about the requirements (3 or more active WIkimedians with at least 300 contributions and at least an activity of six months), if there was a limit of user groups (the committee is eager to have as many user groups as possible) and the possibility to create user group in a country where a chapters exists (theoretically not a problem, but both organisations are encouraged to work together).
The committee members expressed their concerns about the high workload and the internal structures, but announced that there might be changes in the next months. These were also the reasons for the delay of other ideas and projects, e.g. the on-boarding handbook for new organisations.