Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2012-03-03

Attending

• Cindy Ashley-Nelson (OA)
• Christopher Cheney (CA)
• Richard Knipel (CA/RA)
• Piotr Konieczny (CA/OA)

Guests

• Aude
• Dominic (CA)
• Max

Discussion Topics

• GA Related Incident
• Recruitment Ambassadors
  • Jami's idea could run in conjunction with Regional Ambassadors - but consensus is lacking volunteers to implement formally
• Student to Ambassador Ratio
  • 15 to 1 appears fine - just need to call it a guideline, not a rule
• Region Shakeup
  • Not wise for now - maybe revisit once RA spots are full up
  • May want to officially collapse region 3&4 together?
  • Combine some efforts with GLAM?
    • [1] - NYC/Cali/DC/Indiana most probable
  • Regional Ambassador Recruitment
    • Can we put Pine somewhere?
• New Education Software
  • [2]
  • [3]
  • Going gold on March 15 - tons of toys check it out, comes with user classes for OA/CA/Profs
    • Intention for user classes is to help with tracking side / class page creation
• Wikiproject Changeover
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academical_Village
  • Launch targeted post March 15
  • Open for suggestions - in particular on side of how to track (active) ambassadors
    • Probably will be just mirroring data form new Ed Software?
  • Moving SC pages in that direction
• Canada/Mexico
  • Canada & Mexico moving along smoothly as own Regions
  • Agreed to formally invite the respective RAs to future meetings
• Newsletter/Signpost
  • Looks to be going smoothly - good chance of a formal column being added in the future?