Retreat March 2009/SWOT

10:40 brianna (chair), brian, liam (minutes)

"Where are we now?"

• Incorporation process
• Small org, will remain small for some time.
• However, quite different in that we are a small, member org, with a national scope.

What services do we provide?

• not much (yet).
• Mailing list, officialwiki
• monthly reports - potentially combine together for an annual report to be sent to members in a nice end of year document.

What is our org structure?

Committee -> Members -> (meetups) -> friends of the family.

S.W.O.T.

Strengths

• Tech savvy membership across a broad range of competencies esp. OSS.
• Members with important other positions contacts, involvement.
• Positive financial balance.
• Good contacts with allied orgs. in cultural institutions
• Geographically diverse [also a negative].
• Public awareness of WP, great goodwill.
• English language community

Weaknesses

• Poor links to some states, especially brisbane which has enough people, but not much relationship with the committee.
• Not much money (?)
• Geographically diverse [also a positive]
• No dedicated tech person (committee position)
• Lack of public awareness of Chapter
• No experience in fundraising
• Poor allies in media.

Opportunities

• Grants - WMF and other.
• Media [also threat]
• Fundraising
• Merchandise - esp. licensing of english logos/marks.
• Nearby countries/languages - Indo., N.Z., PNG,
• Gov't policy changes (good or bad) such as Internet filter = positive attention to us [also threat]

Threats

• Members not renewing.
• States feeling left out - factionalising?
• Tech infrastructure failing (hosting
• Legal - suing for libel etc.
• Copyright lobby
• Media [also opportunity]
• Gov't policy changes.

Stakeholders

• Members.
• Foundation staff, foundation board.
• Related orgs - PHM, CC-au, ADA, LA, EFA...
• Australian editors
• Other chapters
• Regulatory - CAV