Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/People/Organizational Strategy Liaisons

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Affiliates and other organized groups provide a structure for groups of individuals to organize activities that advance the movement. As of February 2019, there are 146 affiliates: 37 Chapters focused on specific geographies, 108 User Groups, and 1 Thematic Organization. The Wikimedia Foundation, its committees (e.g. Funds Dissemination Committee, Affiliations Committee) as well as regional collaboratives (e.g. Iberocoop, Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe, Wiki Indaba) and thematic collaboratives are considered as part of the organized groups.

Organized groups vary widely in terms of models, levels of activity, and finances. Some can provide support to individual contributors, and others focus on events, advocacy, outreach and promoting free knowledge. Some have paid staff, and others are entirely run by volunteers. Irrespective of background, every organized group is invited to participate in Movement Strategy conversations. To ensure information between the groups and the process flows easily, we are calling for volunteer Strategy Liaisons.

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What is an Organizational Strategy Liaison?

Organizational Strategy Liaisons appointed by organized groups will act as a conduit for ideas, questions, and updates. This will enable organized groups to participate effectively in the Movement Strategy Process and ensure that voices and perspectives of organizations and collaboratives are well heard and considered. The Organizational Strategy Liaison will be engaged in (pro)active communication with the Working Groups and the Core Team to ensure that their organization is up to date with the overall process and its internal conversations are synchronous and well connected to global discussions.

What will the Organizational Strategy Liaison for organized groups do?

• Be a point of contact for the Core Team and the Working Groups and act as a bridge between organized groups and the overall Movement Strategy Process;
• Proactively update their organization about the ongoing work and how they can participate in it effectively;
• Coordinate and facilitate discussions within the organization to provide input into the Movement Strategy Process;
• Highlight the most important organizational feedback points to the Working Groups.

Who can be an Organizational Strategy Liaison?

• Members, board or staff of an organized group, or other enthusiastic community members who have the mandate from their group to coordinate the conversations;
• People who like to focus on the larger picture, and understand which concerns and views are widespread and which are individual and opinion-based;
• Communicators who are able to explain the ongoing work to members of your organization, surface the key results from the conversations in your organizations and feed it back to the process.

How much time does being an Organizational Strategy Liaison require?

We’d like Organizational Strategy Liaisons to commit to the role from March to December, 2019. In some weeks, such as during the community conversations in March-April as well as August-September, Organizational Strategy Liaisons will ideally be able to commit approximately 5-8 hours per week to monitor global conversations and facilitate organizational discussions. Outside of the active periods, you would ideally be able to commit 1-2 hours per week to stay up to date and engage with important questions or issues related to your organization.

What support will be available for Organizational Strategy Liaisons?

• Dedicated support from our Community Relations Specialist, Kelsi Stine-Rowe (kstinerowewikimedia.org) with questions about the process for facilitating community conversations;
• Regular updates on the status of the process and next steps as well as possible opportunities to participate and provide input;
• Professional translation of materials into select languages, and volunteer translation is also being planned; please indicate any translation (from and to English) support you would need from the Core Team;
• A toolkit to facilitate conversations with your community;
• Community Strategy Liaisons to facilitate select language community conversations.

How do you sign up to be an Organizational Strategy Liaison?

• If your organized group has agreed for you to volunteer as their Organizational Strategy Liaison, please sign up here.

List

These are the names and organizations of everyone who agreed to be listed publicly

Full Name	Username	Group	Name of the organization or group
Rémy Gerbet		Affiliate	Wikimédia France
Irvin Sto. Tomas		Affiliate	Philippine Wikimedia Community
Habib M'henni	Dyolf77	Affiliate	Wikimedia Tunisie
Geert Van Pamel		Affiliate	Wikimedia Belgium
Jitendra Shah Biplab Anand		Affiliate	Maithili Wikimedians
Cornelius Kibelka Moritz Rahm		Affiliate	Wikimedia Deutschland
Pavanaja Bellippady		Affiliate	Karavali Wikimedians
Farah Mustaklem		Committee	Affiliations Committee
Mark A. Hershberger Bryan Hilderbrand		Affiliate	MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
Liang-chih Shang Kuan		Affiliate	Wikimedia Taiwan
Zana Shtrkovska		Affiliate	GLAM Macedonia
Justice Okai-Allotey	Owula kpakpo	Affiliate	Wikimedia Ghana
Raphael Berchie	Rberchie	Affiliate	Open Foundation West Africa
Aboubacar Keita		Affiliate	Groupe d'utilisateurs de la communauté Wikimedia Guinée Conakry
Ozurumba Uzoma	Uzoma Ozurumba	Affiliate	Igbo Wikimedians
Abel L Mbula	BamLifa	Affiliate	Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo
Reda Kerbouche Mohammed Bachounda	bachounda	Affiliate	Wikimedia Algeria
Mompati Dikunwane		Affiliate	Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana
Erlan Vega Rios		Affiliate	Wikimedistas de Bolivia
Delphine Ménard		WMF	Wikimedia Foundation
Athikhun Suwannakhan		Affiliate	Wikimedians in Thailand
Richard Knipel		Regional group/collective	Wikimedia United States Coalition
Megan Wacha		Affiliate	Wikimedia New York City
Macreanu Iulian		Affiliate	Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova
Sanket Oswal		Affiliate	Wikimedia India
Susanna Mkrtchyan		Affiliate	Wikimedia Armenia
Shabab Mustafa		Affiliate	Wikimedia Bangladesh
Lucy Crompton-Reid		Affiliate	Wikimedia UK
Butch Bustria		Regional group/collective	East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation
Samuel Francis Swicegood		Affiliate	Ohio Wikimedians
Ravan Jaafar Al-Taie		Affiliate	Iraqi Wikimedians
Georges Fodouop		Affiliate	Wikimedians of Cameroon
Mariana Fossatti		Affiliate	Wikimedia Uruguay
Antoni Mtavangu		Affiliate	Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
JP Béland		Affiliate	Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages
Subhashish Panigrahi Jnanaranjan Sahu		Affiliate	Odia Wikimedians
Bobby Shabangu		Affiliate	Wikimedia South Africa
Geoffrey Kateregga		Affiliate	Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
Greta Doçi		Affiliate	Wikimedians of Albanian Language
Edgar José Rosero Villacís		Affiliate	Wikimedistas de Ecuador
Esther Marie Jackson		Affiliate	Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network
Jean-Philippe Béland		Affiliate	Wikimédia Canada
Dr Mel Ganus	DrMel	Affiliate	San Diego Wikimedians (& WikiSoCal)
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight		Affiliate	Wikimedia District of Columbia
Eugene Eichelberger		Affiliate	Wikimedia Community Ireland
Isaac Chabota Kanguya	Icem4k	Affiliate	Wikitongues
Galder Gonzalez		Affiliate	Basque Wikimedians
Sherry Antoine		Affiliate	AfroCROWD
Netha Hussain		Affiliate	WikiWomen's User Group
Doug Taylor		Affiliate	Wiki Project Med
Ester Bonet		Affiliate	Wikimujeres
Yury Bulka		Affiliate	Wikimedia Ukraine
Matej Grochal		Affiliate	Wikimedians of Slovakia
Thomas Schallhart		Affiliate	Wikimedia LGBT+
Claudia Garad		Affiliate	Wikimedia Österreich
Ivonne Kristiani		Affiliate	Wikimedia Indonesia
Kayode Yussuf	Kayusyussuf	Affiliate	Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
Frans Grijzenhout		Affiliate	Wikimedia Nederland
Tom Hogarth	JarrahTree	Affiliate	Wikimedia Australia
Gonçalo Themudo		Affiliate	Wikimedia Portugal
Elena Sanz		Affiliate	Wikimedia España