Global Melt

Global Melt - Best Practices in Community Leadership for global peer-driven movements

About

Global Melt is a workshop for members and leaders of global peer-driven movements to explore what their movements have in common, share what they have learned, and discuss solutions and ideas for their respective communities.

The workshop aims to gather, for the first time for this purpose, community organizers from Creative Commons, Wikimedia, and Mozilla, as well as staff, contributors, and researchers from similar organizations and projects.

Our immediate goal is to troubleshoot one concrete issue that is common to all participating organizations. We're starting small and prototyping the workshop format, but hopefully this meeting will plant seeds for further collaboration.

The proposed topic is:

A deeper understanding for running local, community-organized events that contribute to organizational goals in meaningful and sustainable ways.

We will spend the time sharing experiences, both good and bad, with the aim of generating specific (and potentially shared) event strategies and collective assets such as toolkits.

Schedule

• Sunday, March 27: welcome and dinner (evening)
• Monday, March 28: workshop (all day)
• Tuesday, March 29: workshop (morning)

The meeting will take place after the Wikimedia Chapters meeting and Wikimedia Foundation board meeting to ensure attendance from members of those groups. Expected attendance is 20-30 people.

Confirmed Participants

Wikimedia

• Foundation Board
• Movement roles working group: Jon Hugget, Barry Newstead
• Wikimedia Deutschland

Creative Commons

• CC HQ
• CC Germany: Markus Beckedahl
• CC Poland: Alek Tarkowski

Mozilla

• Mark Surman
• Alina Mierius
• William Q
• Dees (Labs and Design Jams)

KDE

• Claudia Rausch

Global Voices

• Solana Larson

Freie Universitat Berlin

• Leonhard Dobusch

Aspiration

• Allen Gunn

Transparency International

Kabissa

Location

Berlin, Germany. Venue to be determined. Accommodation organized by participants.

Long-term goals

• Learn from each other.
• Start/build relationships.
• Plant seed for bigger meeting.
• Scope this by protoyping *one topic*
• Bigger event then uses same process on more topics

Reading Material

• Wikimedia Chapters: We Want to Hire Someone, Where Do We Start? Part 1, Part 2
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Public_engagement
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Movement_roles_project
• Creative Commons as a Franchising Model
• Wikimedia Governance
• Mozilla Roles and Responsibilities
• Mozilla Community Map