Annual plan (2013–2014)

This plan documents New England Wikimedians's program and organizational development plans for the fiscal year ending 30 June, 2014. This plan is to serve as an outline for outreach and our activities, as well as provide a written record of our plans in the coming years. This preliminary plan also serves to be an outline to organizing further in the coming years, with the eventual goal of becoming a chapter within the coming years.

Our programs
This fiscal year, New England Wikimedians will align its program structure to reflect the factors that we feel have made the Wikimedia movement successful over the years: content, technology, and community. This also serves in line with our mission, which is to make free content available throughout New England. Through our actions, we believe that we will be able to successfully build up this capacity within the region, and eventually help other user groups and chapters where they need it.

CONTENT

During the past fiscal year, we have worked with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, Harvard University, as well as other institutions that weren't in the education group. There was even one edit-a-thon run during Ada Lovelace Day, which helped to expand many articles.

TECHNOLOGY

In the future, we hope to run events that focus on technology, although we do not have the network necessary to support endeavors like this at this time.

COMMUNITY

Currently, we have monthly meetups that occur in Boston proper and Cambridge, and we will look into ways to expand and cultivate those in the future. This might mean discontinuing meetings or figuring out a way to get better events out of them, although we plan on figuring this out once we have an organizing committee.

Social media is also something that we also hope to increase more of in the coming year, as we would like to start promoting events on the site on our Facebook and Twitter pages, so that they are not as dormant as they have been in the past.

Planned projects and events
New England Wikimedians intend to carry out the following projects and events in Fiscal Year 2013–14. These plans are contingent on having adequate financial and human resources.