Wikimedia Conference 2013/Program Submissions

Meetings

Wikimedia Chapters Association - (Meeting Details)

The meeting in Washington was a great chance to meet and sort out issue as they arose without streams of emails with all the possibilities of misunderstandings. I hope that a serious amount of time can be given to sharing progress and planning the future at the conference.Jon Davies WMUK (talk) 11:05, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chapters in Development (Small to Emerging Chapters)

Continuation meeting of new, small and emerging chapters and thematic organizations. The meeting aims to determine the scope of assistance the chapters need.

Regional and Thematic Groups
- Asia-Pacific Forum
- Iberocoop

Ideas for Working groups

Note: these are just ideas proposed by individuals. At some point, someone^tm will need to pick the topics for the actual program. This is traditionally done by no-one^tm until the last minute, when a random bunch of ~~vict--~~volunteers hacks up a pretty random selection. Let's not do that this time, eh?

For a start, I have boldly organized the existing proposals under rough headings I totally made up. Feel free to reject or re-arrange, but more importantly, let's figure out a way to consolidate, upvote, and otherwise pick what we'll be talking about in Milan. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 03:05, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Programs

Wiki Loves Monuments
Wiki Loves Public Art
Program Evaluation: how evaluation can drive the impact of your chapter's programmatic activities. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 00:09, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
debriefing of the Brussels Gathering --trm^ger 17:08, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Some rather practical workshops/discussions:
- How to organize a frequent meetings effectively
- How to set up a small grants program
- How to organize a photo event (1 day)
- How to set up a national conference meeting (up to 250 people, 1 day)
Cooperation with government: how it turns your program into large scale. Jan Ainali (WMSE) (talk) 19:33, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tech

Wikidata
Visual Editor (wiki-wide deployment is planned for July 2013): Communication and support for the project communities before, during and after the deployment; VE as a tool for chapter projects dealing with editor engagement; communication with press and readers about the long awaited tool; etc. --Nicole Ebber (WMDE) (talk) 22:05, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
a "Wikimedia Commons Outside US", is it viable? Is it useful?--Charles Andrès (WMCH) 12:23, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
See commons:Commons:Requests for comment/Commons Abroad and related ideas ; the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team has since stated in their Legal and Community Advocacy/URAA Statement taht this was not viable. Jean-Fred (talk) 13:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Organization, Governance, and Administration

Professionalisation - first employees / office
- exchanging experiences
  - We are happy to share our experience on going from 0-6 employees in one year. We could start with a short talk and then moderate further discussion. Jan Ainali (WMSE) (talk) 19:12, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keeping a Chapter active
Scaling projects, inter-chapter collaboration. Abbasjnr (talk) 18:24, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Chapters & WMF/WMF board - Challenges and thinking on to back to track --Itzike (talk) 09:19, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Chapters coalition --Itzike (talk) 09:19, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Communications internally and within the movement - reaching the right people efficiently Ziko (talk) 07:33, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Bad practices or how to not start an organisation; aka what we can learn from the process of setting up the WCA. --Mglaser (talk) 23:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Chapter peer review - first experiences (I hope I can get Fae to deliver that workshop :) ) --Mglaser (talk) 23:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Wikimedia UK Governance review: What are the lessons from Wikimedia UK's experience over the last year, and how can we use the report as a model of good practice for the movement? Chris Keating (The Land) (talk) 11:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wikimedia Chapters need a secure alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive. What can be done in the mean time.--Thuvack (talk) 20:13, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- The importance of a good centralised filing system for a vibrant chapter.--Thuvack (talk) 20:15, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- The effect of a shared system in term of efficiency of usage of the donors money: do not repeat the costs and pay for the best --Charles Andrès (WMCH) 10:12, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Brain storming & dating: Propose interchapter collaboration ideas
Practical: how to find non-fundraising funds to cover your budget and become more independent.
(returning every year) How to make communication between chapters and WMF more effective and pleasant.
The WCA Action Team "Research" Ziko (talk) 14:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Funding

Reviewing Grant vs. FDC
Raising Money outside Wikimedia
- EU projects
- government programs
- collaboration with businesses
- Other philanthropic organization
- Tax (this is not program - to differentiate with gov program above)
FDC process: roundtable between FDC member, staff and Chapters from the first round--Charles Andrès (WMCH) 16:28, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- FDC Feedback Session is planned for Sunday morning/noon (2-3 hours) --Nicole Ebber (WMDE) (talk) 22:03, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - The process for next year´s funding must start earlier, so the chapters will know their funding well in advance for coming year. This will most probably need that the process starts about three months earlier.--Historiker (talk) 18:57, 9 April 2013 (UTC) (WMSE)[reply]
Flow funding--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:58, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
GAC, FDC, IEG and Flow funding--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:04, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Improving the work of GAC--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:04, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Individual Engagement Grants--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:30, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Conditions for long term operations: Financial commitments for grants over two years, rather than one year.--Historiker (talk) 18:57, 9 April 2013 (UTC) (WMSE)[reply]

Strategy and Global Perspectives

Is the Global South a valid socio-economic and political division for Wikimedia?
Chapters in the Global South Abbasjnr (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looking beyond chapters: other movement entities. Abbasjnr (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Bridging the gap: just who is responsible for territories that lack a Wikimedia footprint? Abbasjnr (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The role and mission of chapters in the Wikimedia universe --Mglaser (talk) 23:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Chapters participation in non-Wikimedia global projects--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:00, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A new ED for the Foundation: what is relevant from chapters perspective? --Mglaser (talk) 16:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Topics

Toolserver Governance
CiviCRM
Barcamp
standards for Chapter accountability