Difference between revisions of "User:James Hare"

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I am James Hare, the President of Wikimedia DC. I have served on the Board of Directors since May 7, 2011 and as President since March 9, 2013.

In the manner of my colleague User:Econterms I will use this page to take notes about my Wikimedia DC activity.

~~Communications committee members~~ Step one complete! and corresponding plan
~~Tax exempt status paperwork~~
~~CRM~~
Strategic plan interviewing process
~~Centralized data collection and storage system (for edit-a-thon data and the like) – perhaps we could use Qualtrics?~~
~~Fundraising plan~~
~~Wiki Loves Monuments plan~~
Community outreach and engagement plan (and members for the Community Programs Committee)
Unified donation/membership workflow under new payment processing system
Better site / social metrics
Nicely designed meetup template for Wikipedia; on-Wikipedia signing up for edit-a-thons / workshops
Completely overhauled WMDC blog with new/revised backend, different branding

Various edit-a-thons
Strategic Plan
Andrew Lih's Wikipedia class (now finished; we need to study it)
Building a tech volunteer community (e.g. WikiHack)
Open Government
Building volunteer capacity in general
- Wikipedia for Activists
- Could Wikimedia DC take on the Generation Wikipedia project?
- Rewarding volunteers for their work
- Describing specific volunteer positions
Emily comes to DC to teach people how to hold editor training workshops
Library of Congress series of events
Outreach to government agencies and open-government groups
Africa Collection digitization
Taking over education program operations in DC

Community conferences:
- Wikimania
- Wikimedia Conference (Chapters Conference)
- WikiConference USA
- WikiSym, maybe
Sunlight Foundation's Transparency Camp (unfortunately, the same dates as WikiCon this year)
Either Museums and the Web or MCN conference?

Peter Gallert: Working on oral citation project in Namibia. Put him in touch with Adriel Luis of Smithsonian APAC, who is interested in an oral citation project for Asian-American immigrants.
Amanda Menking: Doing a study on women's participation on Wikipedia. Put her in touch with Emily since their projects complement each other very well.
Jethro (I JethroBT): "Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship," changing how online training of Wikipedians happens. Wikimedia DC's activities should have a strong online complement, so this research is worth observing. We could also help with testing.

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 ==Wishlist==
-* Communications committee members and corresponding plan
+* <s>Communications committee members</s> ''Step one complete!'' and corresponding plan
 * <s>Tax exempt status paperwork</s>
-* <s>CRM</s> ''Now the hard work of making it useful!''
+* <s>CRM</s>
-* Strategic plan interviewing process (as first step toward strategic plan)
+* Strategic plan interviewing process
 * <s>Centralized data collection and storage system (for edit-a-thon data and the like) – perhaps we could use Qualtrics?</s>
 * <s>Fundraising plan</s>
 * <s>Wiki Loves Monuments plan</s>
 * Community outreach and engagement plan (and members for the Community Programs Committee)
+* Unified donation/membership workflow under new payment processing system
+* Better site / social metrics
+* Nicely designed meetup template for Wikipedia; on-Wikipedia signing up for edit-a-thons / workshops
+* Completely overhauled WMDC blog with new/revised backend, different branding
 ==Current and future projects==
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 * Emily comes to DC to teach people how to hold editor training workshops
 * Library of Congress series of events
+* Outreach to government agencies and open-government groups
+* Africa Collection digitization
+* Taking over education program operations in DC
 ==Conferences we should attend every year==