Coordination meeting are meetings that occurs during the elaboration of potential project. This meeting often happened in informal basis. Not all meeting happened are successful, but as lesson learn WMID would like to have them in record. Several meetings that end up becoming a successful project actually a result of a lot of coordination meetings, including the unsuccessful ones.
Wikimedia Cipta Jakarta started out from experimentation project under the assumption that the growth needed in a certain languages Wikipedia can be increased using an intervention program ran by volunteers who are willing to take extra responsibility in doing project. These projects on a normal circumstances are not possible to do for multiple reason from extra responsibility in the larger scale of activity, need an on the ground committed team, or funding that one can not take from their individual pocket. Still using the same assumption that these volunteers are rare, we also think this volunteer are proud, need encouragement, reassurance, infrastructure, and given an organization standard to do projects.
The same thing also goes for Wikimedia Indonesia, as a young organization it also need professional consultant advise and help without being able to pay for this professional fee fully, therefore, meetings are need to take place to identify which professionals willing to help but still within our budget.
Additionally, external outreach need internal coordination. The absent of the organization's office to do meeting and the absent of employee willing to be around simply for the sake of occupying the office - will require a different approach in doing coordination. WMID see there are opportunities by not having an office is by doing coordination meeting to ensure all the 'loose' projects still knitted as one and reporting are still being done.
We believe by enabling meetings, we enable the volunteer to do project for fun as a side job, framed in a certain time scale, and in the same time keeping their neutrality, freedom, and independence to pursue other things in their life.
