Project brainstorming 2016
Appearance
Meeting date: 2016-07-02 Project management meeting
This is the (grouped) view of yellow post-its gathered during the WMBE office meeting.
Collaboration
[edit]- WMFR & WMNL collaboration
- Use other chapter's examples & support
- More contact and interaction with the Wallonia community needed
- We do not have enough Belgian partners
- Search & Activate new & existing partners
- We have an office shared by likeminded organisations - let us take advantage of this
- Different profiles / different networks - diversity
Communication
[edit]- We do not communicate enough between us (board)
- Improve the communication within the board
- We have means of communication; how to use them better
- We have many (?) members and board members
- Unclear ownership/alignment of Twitter/Facebook/Websites/email
- Active communication strategy - more visibility: images, news, selected article
- Communication to people outside of the WP/WM community
- We didn't communicate enough/frequently with the outside world
- Press contacts. Video/TV/Own publications (possibly via Commons?)
- A sharper and more clear communication about what we do & what we want to do
- Communication internally/externally
Meetings
[edit]- Food during meetings
- Difficult to find (adapted) venue for meetings
- of board meetings for WMBE
- Improve the atmosphere of the events (welcome, food)
- We could use university infrastructure (for free?)
Members
[edit]- We need more active members
- Not enough support from people who want to organise something
- Our activities do not activate a lot of wikipedians
- What with volunteers that we do not reach in person (80% does not interact with the organisation)
- We miss a larger volunteer base to work with
- Number of members (OK; not OK?)
- Not much / insufficient communication towards them
Organisations & Institutions
[edit]- Organise libraries edit-a-thons
- Improve our contacts with institutions
- Good contacts with universities: VUB UGent Leuven Louvain-la-Neuve
- Contacts with schools
- Education projects (not going well?)
- Collaboration with GLAMs begin to work better
Projects
[edit]- Profit from & align with wider events (e.g. Public domain day)
- We need more (active) projects
- We have difficulties to create a community around our projects
- We need to build upon successful projects
- We have a lot of individual (unrelated) projects
Planning
[edit]- Unclear focus - is it policy / support of community / culture?
- We have no clear plan of our situation / what to do?
- No thought-through plan made yet?
- Lack of strategy?
Relationship with the Foundation
[edit]- Improve the interaction with the Foundation
- Lack of support (financially, technically, organisation wise) from WMF
- Good project grants (according to WMF)
- Work towards a (simple) APG
Skills and strengths
[edit]- We are able to solve issues together
- Different skills
- More clear procedures (to be improved)
- Close group of active board members/advisors (wanted)
- We solve(d) problems in a healthy way
- We are reactive = quick to take action
- But we need to improve proactive planning and vision (in the future)
- We are still a small chapter & organisation
- We have a core group of people who keep putting effort in the organisation
- (build) Trust between board members
- Stable financial situation
- Diversity of WMBE board and volunteers
Successes
[edit]- We achieved FOP in Belgium
- Famous WM brand - let's use it!
- Great and successful projects we do & support
- Brusselse schrijfweek, WLA, WLM