[Wikimedia-GH] WMCON / User group communication modes / Challenges

*@Raphael* Add this to Justice's reply WMCON does have requirements for how delegates are selected. Read <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates> please. And I posted these requirements as well. And no, the previous years we have not had a democratic way of choosing. It is only last year, that I initiated the conscious, group selection of delegates. *@Rexford* I have had a conversation about Whatsapp groups and mailing lists with Asaf a while back. Let me just say that for all who said they wanted to be part of the group/remain in the group following this mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-gh/2017-November/003627.html> call for membership are on our Whatsapp group. *Every single one of them*. *@Georgina* Please refer to the answer I gave Rexford. For now it is not about Whatsapp's effectiveness. The *sole reason *we bother with Whatsapp is that, *all the 37 members who answered to this mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-gh/2017-November/003627.html> call for membership are on our Whatsapp group*. *@Joy* We have some recruits from Barcamp Accra. I have asked Justice to add them to the mailing list. When that is done, I will post the link to the membership registration again. The reason why membership has had to be a bit more intimate than mass is because we get many requests concerning the identification of our members. And an organisation that doesn't have a record of members is a backward one. Membership is processed these days. People even have membership IDs. You missed the first because you had things to attend to. It's the same with the group's volunteers. We don't register people every day. We also have things to do. We register in batches solely because of the movement-wide problem of relying on volunteers to do things that normally paid staff should be doing. *@Justice* When you add your BC recruits, let me know. Finally please *@Raphael @Rexford* pay attention to the group. Have a thorough (non selective) interest in what we do and our welfare. Don't wait till moments like this before you start asking questions. Because more often than not, you'd be asking questions that have already been answered. -- Regards, Sandister Tei New Media+Journalism | Wikipedia | Purple People linkedin.com/in/sandister-tei On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Raphael Berchie &lt;rberchie(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: