Wikimedians of Colorado User Group/wmsummit-2020/candidates

This year, Colorado is allowed to send one delegate to the Wikimedia Summit as noted at (Wikimedia Summit 2020/Eligibility Criteria.

The summit is again essentially about movement strategy, focusing this year on implementation. Who wants to discuss some strategy, and help the world?!

How to select the delegates

To ensure that we use the in-person time as best as possible, we ask Affiliates to only send delegates who will come with a good understanding of the movement strategy process and the draft recommendations, and are ready to take agency and responsibility to design and implement the recommendations in collaboration with every part of the Movement and our partners.

Candidates for Colorado User Group representative to Wikimedia Summit 2019

Please introduce yourself and how you have participated in or plan to participate in Wikimedia and the Colorado User Group, and answer the following in your statements, as these questions will be asked on the signup form:

1. How have you, as an individual, been involved in Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?
2. How has your Wikimedia organization or group been involved in Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?
3. How do you, as an individual, anticipate to be involved in the implementation phase of Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?
4. How does your Wikimedia organization or group anticipate to be involved in the implementation phase of Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?

Also consider:

• What experience do you have with other events (organising and/or attending)?
• Are you able to fully participate in the summit if selected? (required)

To apply, copy and paste the following (sans nowikis):

=== {{U|Your name here}} ===

Candidate statement here! Introduce yourself, etc.

''Questions:

# '''How have you, as an individual, been involved in Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?'''
#: Answer here.
# '''How has your Wikimedia organization or group been involved in Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?'''
#: Answer here.
# '''How do you, as an individual, anticipate to be involved in the implementation phase of Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?'''
#: Answer here.
# '''How does your Wikimedia organization or group anticipate to be involved in the implementation phase of  Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?'''
#: Answer here.

# '''What experience do you have with other events (organising and/or attending)?'''
#: Answer here.
# '''Are you able to fully participate in the summit if selected? (required)'''
#: Answer here.

अभय नातू - Abhay Natu

Hi, I'm Abhay Natu, a wikimedian (mostly a wikipedian) and active editor since 2005. I am an administrator and bureaucrat on w:mr. I have more than 133K edits there so far and intend to keep going. I occasionally organize meetups and such with the Wikimedians of Colorado and heavily involved in similar activities for my home project of w:mr. I have been to the summit in 2017

Questions:

1. How have you, as an individual, been involved in Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?

   Besides working with editors/contributors and users, I have attended to the 2017 summit and disseminated the information to my local group. I have caught up with the later attendees (Neal and Isarra) on subsequent progress there.

2. How has your Wikimedia organization or group been involved in Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?

   Mostly as an interested party and adding our voice/vote when required.

3. How do you, as an individual, anticipate to be involved in the implementation phase of Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?

   1. Identify actionable items as applicable to Wikimedians of Colorado. 2. Make a plan with expected outcomes. 3. Execute plan. 4. Measure success.

4. How does your Wikimedia organization or group anticipate to be involved in the implementation phase of Movement Strategy/Wikimedia 2030?

   Participating in discussions on the Implementation phase, identifying the right people to execute specific tasks and supporting the actions.

1. What experience do you have with other events (organising and/or attending)?

   wmsummit-2017, WMConUS-2015, Community consultation-2015 (BLR), Wikimania 2018 (Cape Town)

2. Are you able to fully participate in the summit if selected? (required)

   Yes

Comments

If anyone wants to add anything we should probably be addressing as well, or other comments.

• Making a note here that I am opposed to Abhay representing the group on this. I recommended on-list that we send Neal instead, as he did indicate he would like to go as well, and has a strong history of following through on his commitments. Please consider this a vote, one way or the other. -— Isarra ༆ 20:26, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
• I support Abhay representing the group once again, and appreciate his contributions to the Colorado group, and wide perspective and deep experience with multiple Wikipedias and challenges in India and elsewhere, which can help inform the Wikimedia strategy and bridge the information gaps we face in the world. ★NealMcB★ (talk) 16:31, 17 December 2019 (UTC)