2016-07-02 Project management meeting
| DRAFT |
- Venue
- Saturday 02 July 2016 13:00-17:00 WMBE - Troonstraat 51, Brussel
- Present: Loraine, Antoine, Maarten, Romaine, Geert, SPQRobin
- Excused: Stefano, Alberto
- Agenda
Past experiences
[edit]- What were our experiences in the last years?
- What went wrong, what can we improve?
- What are our strengths?
Future projects & goals
[edit]- What do we want to do until the end of 2016, in 2017, and after? → simple but realistic aims
- How do we want to engage with the public: only through edit-a-thons? (identify different possible models, see examples in NL and CH)
- How do we want to engage with potential volunteers: what if tomorrow a volunteer says “I want to help, what can I do for you?”
- How do we want to position ourselves in the cultural Belgian scene? In which debates (digitization, open knowledge…), how actively (participating to conferences or organizing ones?)
Present: outline a strategy for projects
[edit]→ can we try to outline a simple but realistic strategy?
Ideas of projects or actions
[edit]- Free the public domain works: how to act on the fact that some museums are restricting the access to their public domain artworks?
Ex: the Museum Middelheim’s case: Public space with statues in the public domain. Etc.
- Easy licenses right clearance forms: translate, write down arguments, campaign, etc!
(both needed for WLA, and beyond, and we could have partners like Packed, Museomix, and individuals working on the topics)
Issues in the projects management
[edit]- Set rules, guidelines and advice to start a project: for example start small, start early, be at least xxx members, define roles, define calendar…
- We will need to write down the big steps of a project + the main roles to be attributed (project administration, general coordination, communication, translations, design…) and from this list, identify how many people + how much time we need.
- Identify tools we will work with (shared documents, shared calendar, etc) to share information.
Community building and network
[edit]Mapping of partners and potential partners
[edit]- Partners (open knowledge)
- Open Knowledge Foundation BE
- Creative Commons BE
- … ?
- Partners (cultural heritage, art & digitization)
- Packed (WLA)
- Faro (WLA)
- all the museums we are in contact with: how do we keep these relations alive?
- Partners (other fields?)
- …
- Partners we don’t have yet
- press (FR + NL)
- education (universities, schools) (FR + NL)
- culture (FR + NL)
- find an equivalent to Packed in Wallonia
- politics (FR + NL)
- … ?
Communication
[edit]We need to show our community that we are alive (and attract more people with a lively communication):
- Things we can communicate in our newsletter
- WMBE news (projects, edit-a-thons, etc)
- … ?
- Things we can communicate on social networks
- WMBE news (projects, edit-a-thons, etc)
- weekly selection of articles about Belgium
- interesting facts, numbers, etc on Wikipedia regarding Belgium (for instance: https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Key_information)
- share news from our partners
- other … ?
Who receives the email sent on info at wikimedia.be ??? We should fix the issues with this address, some emails were never received/answered…
Currently there is nobody who knows the password to access the facebook page for WLM BE-LUX. We should find a way to unblock the page.