User:Econterms/presentation for GLAM Boot Camp on chapters and funding

What's the Wikimedia Foundation?

• WMF = the Wikimedia Foundation, the institution of which Wikimedia-DC is a chapter
• Runs the servers; staff in SF etc

What's a chapter?

• It's a nonprofit affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation, usually associated with a region but maybe with a theme instead.
• It's approved by the WMF's Affiliations committee (formerly the Chapters Committee), a Wikimedia community committee entrusted with advising the WMF Board of Trustees on the approval of new affiliates: chapters, thematic organisations and user groups.

• Fill this in by copying from: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_chapter_FAQ ; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Local_chapter_FAQ ; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters

• what do chapters do?
• where do chapters get money from?

What chapters exist?

• There are 39 chapters now, most of which are national like Wikimedia-UK. The chapters are listed here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters.
• The first national/regional chapter was in Germany, 2004. Most were founded in 2008-2010. The Wiki-NYC chapter started in 2009 and the Wiki-DC chapter in 2011. Those are the only US chapters for now. A Pacific Northwest chapter, to be called Wikimedia-Cascadia, is planned.
• There are likely to be thematic/topical chapters too -- non-geographic chapters like Wikimedia Education, Wikimedia Catalan, Wikimedia LGBT, Wikimedia Medicine; like meta-WikiProjects
• Chapters have a bit of money to give out grants. They get their money from grants from the WMF and from individual donations. The US chapters have just a few thousands of dollars. Some of the international ones have much more.

Getting support for a project

• How could one get money from the foundation or a chapter?
• FDC = Funds Dissemination Committee at Wikimedia Foundation
• GAC = Grant Advisory Committee of WMF

• our rules at DC chapter -- an example

• Individual partnership grants?
• Example grant support from the WMF: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-DC/Events_2012
• Our chapter's simple expense claim form: http://wikimediadc.org/w/images/a/a3/Expense_Claim_Form.pdf
• Wiki-DC and NYC fund edit-a-thons and conferences.

Conferences

• Can present GLAM projects at these
• NYC's Wikimedia day ; Wikimania ; Wikimedia conferences ; regional/theme conferences?
• Milan conference -- a meeting of representatives of chapters, April 18-21 2013.
• WikiSym -- an academic conference each fall, held so far in North America and Europe.
• GLAM bootcamp: A conference idea for Wiki-DC to sponsor ; Dominic has suggested it