Template:Summary/2016-2017 round 1/Wikimedia Österreich

Wikimedia Österreich's annual plan comprises the following three strategic areas: community support, free content, and reach / free knowledge awareness. Centerpiece of WMAT's self-conception and strategy is to sustain motivated and active Wikimedia communities as a reliable service provider. Since we serve a highly networked international (online) community, we consider ourselves a hub in this network - we connect people, ideas, and often also resources across communities and borders. Hence, we also focus on building strong partnerships inside and outside of the movement and engage in activities which co-create sustainable framework conditions (particularly regarding volunteer support and organizational effectiveness) for the wider movement in general and the DACH (Austria, Germany and Switzerland) and CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) communities in particular. A major focus in this regard for the upcoming two years will be tech community building around the Hackathon 2017. A strong contentwise focus of our work lies on Austria's cultural and natural heritage and encouraging more multimedia content for Wikimedia projects. We also believe that serving our communities must be accompanied by advocacy and public policy work in order to increase impact in all these areas in the long run. WMAT applies for a two-year funding. This will help us save resources which we plan to invest next fall into aligning our strategy work with the new movement strategy which is currently being developed under the lead of the WMF. It also allows us to focus even more on developing sub-areas of our strategy such as our GLAM work in the coming year.