Chapters meeting 2009/Preparation/Wikimedia Nederland

Background

• Founded in April 2006, approved in September.
• ~125 members (end 2008)
• 2008: Income €30k, expenses €15k

Successes

• Annual national conference
• Green Paper reaction to European Commission
• Wikiportrait

Headaches

• Upscaling Working group Free Media
• Volunteer development
• Business development

Future plans

-specific

• Continue with the National Conference, improve it
• Wikiportrait 2.0
• Wikimania 2010
• The "small projects"
• Lobbying at the government

-general

• More press attention
• More outreach
• Active and increasing membership

3 year

• Sustainability of the association
• Active membership
• Become obvious point of contact for "free knowledge" in the Netherlands
• Professionalize

Expectations

• Clear agreements with each other and the Wikimedia Foundation
• Get new ideas for activities etc
• More interchapter coordination