[Education-collab] This Month in Education: [March 2017]

2017-04-01 Thread The Wikimedia Education Newsletter Team
Hello everyone, The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter. On behalf of the Education Newsletter team, Sailesh Patnaik (User:Saileshpat

Re: [Education-collab] Exploration of the evolution of the Collab

2017-04-01 Thread Shani Evenstein
We will draft an offer and contact all chapters, user groups and users that have Wiki in Education activities, asking them to sign up if they are interested in joining us. We are hoping to be as inclusive as possible. We are making an effort to talk to ppl from chapters that are already here. Very

Re: [Education-collab] Exploration of the evolution of the Collab

2017-04-01 Thread Vahid Masrour
The April Collab meeting will focus on Strategy, as we have an April 10 deadline to present the Collab's contribution to the strategy at for the first phase of Strategy design. Vahid. On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Jami Mathewson wrote: > Thanks. Was there a time set for that discussion? The A

Re: [Education-collab] Exploration of the evolution of the Collab

2017-04-01 Thread Jami Mathewson
Thanks. Was there a time set for that discussion? The April meeting? On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Vahid Masrour wrote: > The discussion we had last night involved only part of the Collab, and it > seems only fair to have a larger conversation as a whole. > > Certainly, we need to include in

Re: [Education-collab] Exploration of the evolution of the Collab

2017-04-01 Thread Vahid Masrour
The discussion we had last night involved only part of the Collab, and it seems only fair to have a larger conversation as a whole. Certainly, we need to include in the discussion Affiliates and to make sure that other stakeholders understand the issues that we're trying to solve and support the i

Re: [Education-collab] Exploration of the evolution of the Collab

2017-04-01 Thread Jami Mathewson
I added a question but will ask here: can we begin working on the application to become a User Group, or do we need to come to consensus first that this is the direction we're taking? Did you set a plan for the next step? (I know you had a late meeting last night, so no worries if we didn't get th

Re: [Education-collab] Exploration of the evolution of the Collab

2017-04-01 Thread LiAnna Davis
Thanks, Vahid! I was bold and accepted people's suggested changes as well as adding several myself. Hope this is ok. :) LiAnna On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Reem Al-Kashif wrote: > Hi Vahid, > > That's interesting! thanks for sharing, will take a look. > > best > reem > > On 31 Mar 2017 23:4

Re: [Education-collab] Exploration of the evolution of the Collab

2017-04-01 Thread Reem Al-Kashif
Hi Vahid, That's interesting! thanks for sharing, will take a look. best reem On 31 Mar 2017 23:48, "Vahid Masrour" wrote: > At WikiCon, we are discussing possible avenues for the evolution of the > Collab. One option is turning the Collab into a User Group focused on > promoting the goals of