Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-12-23

Attending:
 * Jami Mathewson
 * Tom Fish
 * Christopher Cheney
 * Cindy Nelson
 * Donald Albury
 * Richard Knipel

Topics of Discussion:
 * Ambassador Ratios
 * Officially long-term objective is 1 to 15/20, with at least one officially Wikipedian per class - but in short-term this ratio will not be enforced
 * Guidelines will be officially posted by noon PST today
 * May require some classes to be only "1st come, 1st serve" although this will not
 * Objective is to improve quality, and will require turning down some professors but will get better results from the program overall
 * Ambassador Recruitment Ideas
 * Current predictions give us ~20 Online Ambassadors at most, and in order to stay even at least we need to increase numbers
 * We need to look at improving feedback/communication between OA and CA/Professors
 * Encouraging students to send a message to CA/OA/Professor Account in the 1st/2nd week
 * Determine more active WikiProjects (WikiMedia might have something like this?) we should be able to get some very targeted individuals
 * Roles & Responsibilities
 * Looking at Long-term prospects, will be confirming with the Foundation as things are still changing
 * Will bring more Regional Ambassadors into our discussions to firm up relations on the Campus Ambassador side of things
 * Newsletter Revitalization
 * LiAnna Davis, is looking at bringing this back - no need to worry about this right now
 * Increasing Regional/Campus Ambassador on the SC
 * Jami/Richard will get 2-3 RAs to attend next SC meeting
 * 1st Semester wrap-up
 * Obar Project to make a class about Admin duties
 * Village_pump_(proposals)
 * Media-commons classes working on images/videos has helped as well
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 * India Program bleed-in issues, should be better for 2nd semester with the project being tabled
 * Past: Many issues, nothing that directly in the classroom carried over into North America - but image wise it still hurts
 * Future: "India loves Wikipedia commons" project, should help as well. (where guys just take pics, do diagrams, and put it up on commons)
 * Final stats to verified shortly
 * Usergroups to be made for each class, to improve stats/communications; ETA next semester?
 * Training Programs (video wise) will be ready Fall 2012
 * Professors, Students, Ambassadors
 * Wikipedia Recruitment Ambassadors
 * Currently focused on hubs of San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, MI; Bloomington, IN
 * Talk page check
 * Focus on professors/over students? Beg/accept classes into program
 * Page Updates
 * Some disconnect with LiAnna on what we should/can edit
 * Some Streamlining has occurred by the foundation, eta 1st of year?
 * Do we officially need to adopt Canada/North America into the name?
 * Yes/No will look into based on what comes out of the next week or so.