Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-10-23

Attending: Topics of Discussion:
 * Chris Cheney
 * Donald Albury
 * Jan eissfeldt
 * Tom Fish
 * Cindy Nelson
 * Swaroop Rao
 * Confirm of Election Results
 * No Opposition


 * India Update
 * Swaroop gives the committee an update of what is happening in India, and that he will be developing contacts
 * Also mentions students will be encourage to start more articles in their userspace, to help avoid some of the issues that have occured


 * Branding of Ambassador Program
 * Jan gives an overview of some of the copyright issues and brief background on German Project, for new members
 * Tom adds in some background information about Copyright being a "seven deadly sin"
 * Chris mentions that initiative is more a marketing effort for the community effort
 * Cindy suggests
 * We need a more visible Steering Committee page, will work on it for the next meeting
 * We also need a more visible timeline
 * Newsletter can we pick up what Sage used to do?
 * Tom will look into it
 * Jan will also talk to Frank in order to get more Wikimedia Foundation presence


 * Canadian Integration
 * Chris brings up background that Canadian Program was looking for support structure (Regional Ambassador & this committee handling more of their affairs)
 * General consensus that Chris will talk more with Canadian Program


 * Re-look at definition of the role of Steering Committee
 * Donald brings up topic of picking up some slack newsletter, page updates...
 * Committee agrees, that Donald will chat with user:Dcoetzee on the topic of streamlining ambassador pages
 * Cindy asks for everyone to send a rough idea set of what the committee does for purposes of new page


 * Conflicts between Community and Class needs
 * Chris brings up general topic, that AfD requests, DYK have been difficult
 * Cindy brings up that may be an information issue where Community is not 100% sure of what the project is about. At the same time, Community may not be supporting the project due to splintering our efforts (hoops to be an Ambassador/Professor...)
 * Brings up question of what Regional Ambassador duties are, should we encourage them to focus more on Campus Ambassadors then getting more classes.
 * Tom brings up issue we may need to request the Wikimedia foundation to slow down a little while resources catch up.
 * Jan will see if he can talk to Frank about general pace of expansion and general resource needs
 * Cindy brings up issue of Wikimedia losing the ball on knowing which classes are actually in the program
 * Cindy talks about more prominent banners for student articles
 * Tom mentions that making current banners, on the article itself may cause more issues than worth (ie: Community backlash)
 * All: lets table this a little, as it relates to a lot of the other topics were are talking about. We do agree that userifying a new article may make sense but it does not solve issue with editing existing articles.