2019:Community Growth/Building a member-driven affiliate: which are the fundamental questions and how do we answer them?

Community Growth/Building a member-driven affiliate: which are the fundamental questions and how do we answer them?

Description

Wikimedia Sverige works hard to gain influence, grow and prosper. But we know that we don’t have all the answers. Our road towards an active, growing and engaged member base has just started, for example. At the same time, we know that it is only when our chapter grows and gets more active that we can influence society for real. Our belief is that many chapters and user groups are in the same position. So why not take the opportunity when we gather some of the most active and prominent members of our international community to take this discussion to the next level?

This session aims to share experiences, failures, successes or anything that might be shared for a stronger international movement. Which are the tools needed for a growing community, retaining and engaging its members?

Relationship to the theme

The organisers of the community growth space believe that the space will address the following Sustainable Development Goals:

• ''10'' Reduced inequalities
• ''17'' Partnerships for the goals.

To reach a sustainable world, we need to work together. We need to grow as a movement, and more groups within society needs to get involved. Gaining the tools needed to grow in size and diversity enables our movement to work better for a sustainable world.

• 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure

• 10 Reduced inequalities
• 11 Sustainable cities and communities
• 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions
• 17 Partnerships for the goals.

This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:

Relationship to the space

The organisers of the space and the community have identified a number of topics they wish to address in this space. Please explain how your proposal its into these topic areas.

Recruitment, activation and retention

Off-wiki engagement

This session will address the topics of the Growth space in the following manner:

The session will discuss how we can grow as a movement, on a local, national and international level; how we can activate our members and make sure that our movement is driven by our members.

As a reminder, the proposed topics are listed at 2019:Community Growth

This session will address the topics of the Growth space in the following manner:

Session outcomes

At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:

• All participants have been shared new ideas, tools, experiences, successes and failures on how to work with community growth and engagement.
• There are common insights on what tools and what work might be needed for affiliates to be member-driven.

Session leader(s)

Mattias Blomgren, Chair, Wikimedia Sverige

Axel Pettersson (WMSE)

Session type

Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and dir ectly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:

• Workshop to identify and try to solve problem

Requirements

The session will work best with these conditions:

• Room: A small classroom, round-table seating

• Audience: 20-25

• Recording: Yes if it’s fine for the participants

• Time requested:
• 10 minutes short introduction
• 40 minutes discussion and common work
• 10 minutes wrap up

Relationship with the organisers of the space

The organisers of the community growth space wish to provide any necessary support to presenters and participants that they may need and also wish to have an active role in shaping the content of the space to maximise the benefit of all attendees. Please let us know if you would appreciate any help, and if you consent to constructive suggestions from the organiser team that would allow the largest amount of people to share and benefit from each other's contributions.

• I would be interested in receiving help in shaping my submission: YES / NO.
  • In particular, I would need the following type of help or advice:
• I consent to the organisers of the space contacting me to discuss alternative ways to present my knowledge (for example, merging two proposals into a common presentation, a panel debate instead of a lightning talk, etc.), or ways to modify and improve my proposal (for example by ensuring a gender diversity on panels) : YES
• If my proposal is not selected for a presentation, I would be interested in presenting my proposal in the form of a poster in the Community Growth space: NO
• I consent to my proposal being proposed to organisers of other spaces if it would be a good cross-over topic or if it fits better into the other space's scope: YES

Interest

If you would like to attend this session, please express your interest by signing ~~~~ below

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