Dear Wikimedians, We are closing the application form for Working Group members later today.[1] Please consider applying, if you are interested in strategic conversations about movement structures in thematic areas like roles and responsibilities, revenue streams, resource allocation, partnerships, capacity building, advocacy, technology and product, diversity or community health. We have received more than 100 applications by now and are looking for more! I would like to encourage you to also consider applying even if you have not contributed to movement strategy conversations before or feel that you might lack experience or expertise to contribute. Your perspective might still enrich the discussions and we would like to see a broad diversity of voices in the conversations, from each corner of the movement. We have heard a lot of feedback regarding 5 hours per week that we expect to be the average time investment for members of the Working Group. Time investment will vary depending on the week and progress: there will possibly be weeks with little to do (e.g. reading a one-pager), but there will also be weeks where members will need to read, discuss, design or review research tasks, agree, and communicate with each other and with other groups, have online-meetings or will attend in person events, write and review documents and emails etc. It will all also depend on how the working group decides to work together, and on the members and their individual work and conversations styles. Working groups will be supported according to their needs, for example in terms of facilitation, administration and translation. If you think you can only invest 2-3 hours, but bring a unique set of experiences or background, please also consider applying! We will take a variety of criteria into account when selecting the members together with our Steering Committee. Next steps: Selection of Working Group members will happen in the first half of July. The minimum number of members for working groups to be established is 6. That means, we might start with a smaller Working Group, then map the gaps in terms of diversity, representation and expertise and identify profiles of members that we need to bring into the group. Recruiting and selection of additional members will not only happen in July, but also at later stages in the process, depending on the needs the Core Team and the Working Groups identify. If you are interested in applying but still have doubts, please reach out to Kaarel or me directly. We will work with you all on clarification. All the best, Nicole [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working… On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 03:24, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: -- Nicole Ebber Adviser International Relations Program Manager Wikimedia Movement Strategy Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.