Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023/Programme development


This page is devoted to the programme development for the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023.


Programme Committee

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Topics of interest

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The following table reports the results from a community survey that was launched in January 2023 to identify the needs of the communities across the region, where the indicated topics are classified into four groups.

Description
Strategic discussions: Top issues affecting the community that needs to be discussed in person are:
  • Conducting programs efficiently
  • Global strategy
  • Fundraising
  • Resilience
  • Burnout of volunteers
  • Hub
  • Global governance
  • Sharing of experiences and learnings
  • Improvement and diversification of CEE region activities
  • Diversity
  • The conflict between users and functionaries
  • Community meetings
  • Community engagement
  • Institutional collaborations
  • Freedom of Panorama
  • Wikimedia Grants
  • Sharing program experiences
  • Cooperation and knowledge exchange/joint projects (international)
  • GLAM
  • Attract and retain volunteers
  • Content gaps
  • Capacity development
  • Improvements of AffCom and T&S Team
Projects needs to work on in-person: Some of the projects or activities that need to be, partially or fully, planned in person are:
  • Organizing community events
  • Outreach
  • Cooperation/Collaboration
  • CEE Hub
  • CEE Spring
  • EU-level lobbying
  • Editor retention
  • Idea dissemination
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • Diversification content about culture
  • Workshops
  • Project management
  • Social media /community management
  • Cross-border cooperation
  • Learning how to motivate new volunteers
  • Conflict resolution
  • Organizational sustainability
Important goals, problems, or obstacles: Top issues:
  • Sharing knowledge online in-between offline events
  • Grants program (Timeline, rapid grants take 45 days)
  • Increase the size of the editor community
  • Activity level of communities
  • Governance
  • Future of the CEE Hub project
  • Underrepresented community
  • Community inclusion and equity
Skills important for the community: Important skills that people need to learn are:
  • Communication
  • Public speaking
  • Conflict resolution
  • Editor retention research
  • Organizing skills
  • Cultural knowledge
  • Photography skills
  • Understanding and listening to regional needs
  • Preparing action plan
  • Skills in attracting, motivating & retaining volunteers
  • Leadership
  • How to approach and attract sponsors (donations)

Slogan

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The slogan for the conference is Connect to Learn!.

Submissions

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See: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023/Submissions

Themes

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The themes of the conference will be defined based on the topics indicated in the submitted session proposals.

Timeline

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Activity Deadline Status
Call for submission opens 1 April 2023 00:00 (CEST)   Done
Announcement sent
  • to wmcee-l@tools.wikimedia.pl, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
1 April 2023   Done
First reminder sent
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
1 May 2023   Done
Second reminder sent
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
14 May 2023   Done
Third reminder sent
  • to wmcee-l@tools.wikimedia.pl, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
21 May 2023   Done
Extension announced
  • to wmcee-l@tools.wikimedia.pl, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
22 May 2023   Done
Last reminder sent
  • to wmcee-l@tools.wikimedia.pl, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
31 May 2023   Done
Call for submissions closes 31 May 2023 23:59 (CEST)   Done
Submissions are evaluated by the programme committee June 2023   Done
Applicants are notified about final decisions July 2023   Done
Draft schedule published late August 2023   Done
Final schedule published early September 2023   Done
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