Thanks Ellie! Sounds like a very productive step! Chris
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Ellie Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Chris Keating < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Well this thread turned out bigger (and much more productive) than I >> expected! >> > > >> To my mind, Wikimania continuing to happen every year is a minor miracle, >> and one that's only possible with the hard work and dedication of lots of >> people. >> >> However, it's a miracle that isn't without its problems. The most obvious >> problem to my mind is that there is a very mixed quality of actual >> conference programme, and without clear objectives (or at least not >> consistent objectives). The Wikimedia Conference, by contrast, has a much >> clearer alignment of the programme with a set of goals, and work happens to >> follow up before and after the conference. >> >> The second problem is that the responsibilities for governance and >> management of the conference are really very unclear. We have the Wikimania >> Committee, we have the local team (and in some cases a local chapter who >> may or may not be working closely with the bid team), we have the Programme >> Committee and we have the WMF. (Actually we have the WMF at least twice, as >> the priorities of the WMF team involved in organising the conference don't >> always seem to align with those of the rest of the organisation). >> > > > >> >> In my view, the most useful thing for all these groups to do is to work >> out who is actually responsible for what, and document it, in public. >> > > T > his is an excellent suggestion. It is not unclear to me how things work > having been involved with coordination among the various 'players' for the > past few years. The Handbook is out of date as well. So I will take an > action item to start revising this and making it clearer to everyone about > the structure, organization, etc for the community at large. This is > especially necessary as we move forward with next steps for 2018 in the > coming months (working on this with WMF and Committee so we are all in > alignment about the future, and we can better enable prospective future > hosts/organizers to engage with us.) > > > > > >> >> Chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > Ellie Young > Events Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > c. 510 701 8649 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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