On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Eugene Eric Kim <ee...@blueoxen.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody, > > For those of you who don't know me, I'm leading the Wikimedia > strategic planning process. Our goal is to develop a five-year > strategic plan through an open community process that is going on > right now and that will go on through July 2010. We're trying to > answer three questions: > > * Where do we want to see the Wikimedia movement in five years? > * Where is it now? > * How should we get from here to there? > > The hub for this conversation has naturally been a wiki: > <http://strategy.wikimedia.org/>. It's been up for about two months > now, and we've already gotten an incredible amount of engagement > there. We've also been holding regular IRC office hours (as most > followers of this list know), and Philippe Beaudette, the facilitator > of this project, has been tirelessly talking with many people and > evangelizing the project. > > We're now moving into a phase where we're going to be encouraging even > greater participation. This Wednesday, we'll be putting out a broad > Call for Participation, advertised through the Central Notice, which > means that anyone accessing any of the Wikimedia project sites will > see it. > > I wanted to make sure that all of you were aware that this is > happening, and I wanted to point you to a few links that explain this > in more detail. > > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Process > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_forces > > In the meantime, if you have any questions or thoughts, please share > them, either on the strategy wiki, here on this mailing list, or with > me or Philippe directly. Thank you! > > =Eugene > > -- > ====================================================================== > Eugene Eric Kim ................................ http://xri.net/=eekim > Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http://www.blueoxen.com/ > ====================================================================== > > This is great to hear and I am very curious to see how it turns out. It's too bad Special:Statistics can't show you basic information over time. To facilitate before/after comparisons, as of now: 372 content pages; 4,118 pages; 30,382 edits; 1,870 registered users; 682 active users. This is of course a quantitative vs. qualitative assessment, and more interesting will be the strategy that emerges from thoughtful interaction between the community and the foundation. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
