2016-07-02 Project management meeting
| DRAFT |
- Venue
- Saturday 02 July 2016 13:00-17:00 WMBE - Troonstraat 51, Brussel
- Present: Loraine, Antoine, Maarten, Romaine, Geert, SPQRobin
- Excused: Stefano, Alberto
- Agenda
Past experiences edit
- What were our experiences in the last years?
- What went wrong, what can we improve?
- What are our strengths?
Future projects & goals edit
- What do we want to do until the end of 2016, in 2017, and after? → simple but realistic aims
- How do we want to engage with the public: only through edit-a-thons? (identify different possible models, see examples in NL and CH)
- How do we want to engage with potential volunteers: what if tomorrow a volunteer says “I want to help, what can I do for you?”
- How do we want to position ourselves in the cultural Belgian scene? In which debates (digitization, open knowledge…), how actively (participating to conferences or organizing ones?)
Present: outline a strategy for projects edit
→ can we try to outline a simple but realistic strategy?
Ideas of projects or actions edit
- Free the public domain works: how to act on the fact that some museums are restricting the access to their public domain artworks?
Ex: the Museum Middelheim’s case: Public space with statues in the public domain. Etc.
- Easy licenses right clearance forms: translate, write down arguments, campaign, etc!
(both needed for WLA, and beyond, and we could have partners like Packed, Museomix, and individuals working on the topics)
Issues in the projects management edit
- Set rules, guidelines and advice to start a project: for example start small, start early, be at least xxx members, define roles, define calendar…
- We will need to write down the big steps of a project + the main roles to be attributed (project administration, general coordination, communication, translations, design…) and from this list, identify how many people + how much time we need.
- Identify tools we will work with (shared documents, shared calendar, etc) to share information.
Community building and network edit
Mapping of partners and potential partners edit
- Partners (open knowledge)
- Open Knowledge Foundation BE
- Creative Commons BE
- … ?
- Partners (cultural heritage, art & digitization)
- Packed (WLA)
- Faro (WLA)
- all the museums we are in contact with: how do we keep these relations alive?
- Partners (other fields?)
- …
- Partners we don’t have yet
- press (FR + NL)
- education (universities, schools) (FR + NL)
- culture (FR + NL)
- find an equivalent to Packed in Wallonia
- politics (FR + NL)
- … ?
Communication edit
We need to show our community that we are alive (and attract more people with a lively communication):
- Things we can communicate in our newsletter
- WMBE news (projects, edit-a-thons, etc)
- … ?
- Things we can communicate on social networks
- WMBE news (projects, edit-a-thons, etc)
- weekly selection of articles about Belgium
- interesting facts, numbers, etc on Wikipedia regarding Belgium (for instance: https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Key_information)
- share news from our partners
- other … ?
Who receives the email sent on info at wikimedia.be ??? We should fix the issues with this address, some emails were never received/answered…
Currently there is nobody who knows the password to access the facebook page for WLM BE-LUX. We should find a way to unblock the page.