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- Jan 2020
Majority of the times, the only way to break into a circle is for someone within that circle to speak positively on your behalf.
Who speaks on your behalf?!
I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time. — Ecclesiastes 9:11
They simply possess the willpower and drive to observe people, get to know people, appear in gatherings that involve people that are aligned with their goals, and connect people with one another.
Skill that puts sometimes the smartest minds below you
news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
ericb 12 days ago | unvote [-] * Better googling. Time-restricted, url restricted, site restricted searches. Search with the variant parts of error messages removed.* Read the source of upstream dependencies. Fix or fork them if needed.* They're better at finding forks with solutions and gleaning hints from semi-related issues.* Formulate more creative hypothesis when obvious lines of investigation run out. The best don't give up.* Dig in to problems with more angles of investigation.* Have more tools in their toolbelt for debugging like adding logging, monkey-patching, swapping parts out, crippling areas to rule things out, binary search of affected code areas.* Consider the business.* Consider user-behavior.* Assume hostile users (security-wise).* Understand that the UI is not a security layer. Anything you can do with PostMan your backend should handle.* Whitelist style-security over blacklist style.* See eventual problems implied by various solutions.* "The Math."
What do top engineers do that others don't?
- Better googling. Time-restricted, url restricted, site restricted searches. Search with the variant parts of error messages removed.
- Read the source of upstream dependencies. Fix or fork them if needed.
- They're better at finding forks with solutions and gleaning hints from semi-related issues.
- Formulate more creative hypothesis when obvious lines of investigation run out. The best don't give up.
- Dig in to problems with more angles of investigation.
- Have more tools in their toolbelt for debugging like adding logging, monkey-patching, swapping parts out, crippling areas to rule things out, binary search of affected code areas.
- Consider the business.
- Consider user-behavior.
- Assume hostile users (security-wise).
- Understand that the UI is not a security layer. Anything you can do with PostMan your backend should handle.
- Whitelist style-security over blacklist style.
- See eventual problems implied by various solutions.
- "The Math."
- Nov 2019
careers.airbnb.com careers.airbnb.com
blog.techinclusion.co blog.techinclusion.co
- Oct 2019
podcastnotes.org podcastnotes.org
When you say "yes" to something, you're basically saying "no" to 1,000 other things
- Sep 2019
www.coreycleary.me www.coreycleary.me
Pretty much the same things as the engineering blog, but make sure to skim through the "Issues" section to see if you can find anything else interesting.
Things to look for in open source projects
What projects/products have they developed recently? And more importantly, what led them to build these things? What business challenges or goals drove the project? What technical challenges drove it?
Things to look for in the developer's blogs
The list of product(s). Is there anything similar you've worked on that you can show you understand the business problems and domain? Anything similar you've worked on where you helped make UX and/or feature decisions (where you stepped outside your developer-world bubble?). Anything similar that you had to develop a unique technical solution for? You want to show you can understand the business/product side of things and translate that into technical solutions. List of customers (company's love to list customer logos!). While on the surface this might not seem that helpful, it can actually provide helpful information. Is there a particular type of customer they have that you have developed solutions for before? (i.e. – government, insurance, etc). Any specific customer you have built products for before? News section. Companies will often talk about new customers, recent acquisitions, and new product developments here. This will give you a sense of where the company is headed and is really useful to bring up in interviews as it shows you have an understanding of the current state of the company.
Things to look for on company websites
Things to look for are: What are recent things they've worked on or tools they've built? What are things they're working on now? Projects/products/etc What projects/products do they mention that you would be working on? Do they mention any specific technologies you have experience with (not Node/React etc, but for example, performance testing tools -> this suggest they have a lot of traffic and they need to profile their services, something that you would be a good fit for if you have this experience) Anything they explicitly mention they need help with? Sometimes job posting will say things like "We just had a huge increase in users and need to hire another developer to help us re-architect some of our core services".
Things to look for in job postings
At a very high level, it is:
Better approach to look for jobs:
Step 1: figure out what companies' problems are: – Research company website, engineering blog, etc. to find out what these problems are
Step 2, show how you can help solve those problems: – create your "pitch" (whether this is a resume and quick paragraph email, or something in person, approach is the same) by showing how your skills and experience will help solve their problems
The job search process is a sales process – one in which you are selling your skills and experience
- Aug 2019
apprentices.seesparkbox.com apprentices.seesparkbox.com
Passion, character, and initiative are a requirement. A long resumé is not — as long as you care about the right things, we can help build your skillset. This is true for those we hire, and it is equally true for our apprentices.
seesparkbox.com seesparkbox.com
"There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?" — Warren Buffett
www.fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com
The Golden Age Of UX Won't Last. Here's How To Prepare For What's Next
www.glassdoor.com www.glassdoor.com
25 Jobs with the Best Career Opportunities in the U.S.
- Apr 2019
Important skillset that can be used for direct work in a wide range of causesWeb design is a skill that's in-demand in many types of organisations, from charities to startups, giving you great flexibility and the opportunity to work on high impact projects.Organisations that are especially high-impact to work at or volunteer for include:Government departments, such as Obama's US Digital Service and 18F or the UK's Government Digital Service.Effective non-profits, such as those recommended by GiveWell, Giving What We Can and The Life you Can Save.Innovative for-profits, such as Google, which now has seven products with over one billion monthly active users (Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Google Play, Maps and Youtube)1, or AirBnB.For-profits focused on the global poor, such as Sendwave.Effective Altruist organisations.
Part-time advocacy journalismDue to the rise of online publications it is becoming easier to get published, which opens up the opportunity to pursue advocacy journalism part-time, as a freelancer alongside another job that pays the bills. We know of several people who are successfully pursuing this option.
Documentary film-making seems like a form of art with a good chance of direct and advocacy impact, in that it resembles investigative journalism. It also appears stronger in terms of network and transferability of skills. As a result, we would expect a career profile on documentary film-making to be more positive than this one.
Sean Cavanagh, Associate Editor for Education Week, writes about the use of technology to benefit the career development of students. This article focuses on the K-12 sector, but this implementation at this level is important because it will influence these students when they pursue their career choices, often in Higher Education. This article outlines specific technologies and partnerships that schools are utilizing and shows the investment that students show when given these career opportunities to guide themselves toward.
Rating: 8/10
onlinelibrary.wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Author Melissa A. Venable, Ph.D. has spent her career working in career development, technology and instructional design. The article outlines technology options for career professionals to use with distance learners and how to conduct an assessment to ensure needs are being met.
Rating: 5/10
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
This article is authored by Farouk Dey, formerly of Stanford University and currently the Vice Provost for Integrative Learning and Life Design at Johns Hopkins. Dey offers an overview of the transformation that college career services have gone through over the past 100 years and showcases 10 areas where career services will continue to change in the future, including the scope of how technology will allow for a wider reach.
Rating: 8/10
- Jan 2019
www.eurogamer.net www.eurogamer.net
The Binding of Edmund McMillen
www.digitaltrends.com www.digitaltrends.com
The rise, and completely predictable fall of game developer Phil Fish
www.svg.com www.svg.com
Why we never hear from the maker of Fez anymore
www.gamasutra.com www.gamasutra.com
The Making Of Fez, The Breaking Of Phil Fish
www.creativeboom.com www.creativeboom.com
Finally, after 11 years of lukewarm comfort and mediocre job security, I decided to take a chance in trying out in art, which I had always loved. From one point of view, I've succeeded, because I am making a living doing this. But even if I didn't, the bottom line is that at least I have tried. If we try really hard and things don't work out the way we want them to, we can move on. I moved with two suitcases to New York from Tokyo and started over with my life. I enrolled myself as a freshman in my 30s, among my 17 and 18-year-old classmates, at School of Visual Arts, started studying art for the first time. Four years later, I received an MFA in Illustration, then started slowly working as a freelance illustrator
- Dec 2018
blog.siggraph.org blog.siggraph.org
SIGGRAPH: Share your top three technology tools. CC: I hate technology! But if you're trying to make something pretty in this medium, there's no avoiding it
SIGGRAPH: What is the best advice you would give someone starting out in animation? CC: Draw. Carry a sketchbook (or a tablet) and draw (or paint!) every chance you get. Make observations from the world around you, from photo or video reference, from artists you admire. Most importantly, don't just observe, but put those observations down on paper in visual form. Make a habit of it. The things you learn that way will stay with you forever. And that knowledge will be useful no matter what medium you end up working in.
www.animationnights.com www.animationnights.com
A: Anything else you'd like to say or tell the new comers and/or the community? L: Mmh, I know how it feels to be limited by your own lack of skills and today's tools are taking away a little bit of that barrier. And the more the software helps you to get rid of the technical problems of representation, the more creative you can be. While the tool is the same, it's very fun to see that everybody has its own take to how to use Quill. It wasn't at first, but now I see more and more people having their own style. It's so refreshing. I follow the group and what is going on with a lot of attention.
A: Hello Lip, please tell us a bit more about you. What is your background? Did you study visual arts? L: Not really [laughs]. My parents forced me to have a very classical education. I studied Latin and ancient Greek in high school. But when I was 18, I realized that I enjoy to visualize my ideas and thoughts. So I went to the University and studied advertising. I was heading toward more of a copywriting agency type of occupation until I felt the need to carry my ideas until completion. I was tired of giving them away too soon because I found my stories never really turned out the way they should be. Since the softwares got easier and more accessible, I managed to find the right moment to jump in and learn the technical skills to do it on my own.
thedesignkids.org thedesignkids.org
Where did you study and what were some of your first jobs? I actually have a degree in Economics from Colorado College. This was pursued at the behest of my father and after bartending for a year in London after I graduated, I went to the Vancouver Film School and took their course in Multimedia. My first jobs were all menial labor: I worked sorting packages at a Greyhound station, cleaning recycled bottles at a brewery and erected party tents. After VFS, I moved to New York and freelanced as a web designer/flash animator for a bit before I helped found heavy.com with two of the guys I had been freelancing for. That lasted for about five years before I started Buck with my partners in 2003.
www.itsnicethat.com www.itsnicethat.com
What's interesting looking back is that the path of his career could have been very different. He graduated in 2008, right as the global financial crisis unravelled. As he approached graduation, he had three open job offers, but by the time he'd received his certificate all three had disappeared. So he decided to strike out on his own with his solo studio. "These jobs were as 'design manager' or as 'creative technologist' at big companies," he explains. "Extremely narrow jobs – they can be really rewarding but I can't imagine I'd have been able to do as many things as I've been able to do on my own. Maybe I was lucky that those three job offers disappeared!"
www.creativitypost.com www.creativitypost.com
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- Nov 2018
www.theparisreview.org www.theparisreview.org
This was a time when I was starting to think about what my career was going to be. I'd failed to make it as a musician. I'd had lots of appointments with A&R people. After two seconds, they'd say, It's not going to happen, man. So I thought I'd have a go at a radio play. Then, almost by accident, I came across a little advertisement for a creative-writing M.A. taught by Malcolm Bradbury at the University of East Anglia. Today it's a famous course, but in those days it was a laughable idea, alarmingly American. I discovered subsequently that it hadn't run the previous year because not enough people had applied. Somebody told me Ian McEwan had done it a decade before. I thought he was the most exciting young writer around at that point. But the primary attraction was that I could go back to university for a year, fully funded by the government, and at the end I would only have to submit a thirty-page work of fiction. I sent the radio play to Malcolm Bradbury along with my application. I was slightly taken aback when I was accepted, because it suddenly became real. I thought, these writers are going to scrutinize my work and it's going to be humiliating. Somebody told me about a cottage for rent in the middle of nowhere in Cornwall that had previously been used as a rehabilitation place for drug addicts. I called up and said, I need a place for one month because I've got to teach myself to write. And that's what I did that summer of 1979. It was the first time I really thought about the structure of a short story. I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on. At the end I had two stories to show, so I felt more secure.
lincs.ed.gov lincs.ed.gov
LINCS is a national leadership initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) to expand evidence-based practice in the field of adult education. LINCS demonstrates OCTAE's commitment to delivering high-quality, on-demand educational opportunities to practitioners of adult education, so those practitioners can help adult learners successfully transition to postsecondary education and 21st century jobs.
The LINCS website has an abundance of information that can prove useful in the designing of adult educational materials which are technology based. The site includes courses, articles and links 743 research studies, materials and products. In addition there are State Resources for Adult Education and Literacy Professional Development. Overall I found the site to be a wonderful source of relevant information to tap into.
RATING: 5/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)
- Jun 2018
www.howdesign.com www.howdesign.com
17. SAY NO TO SPEC WORK Speculative work, or spec work, is a request by a potential client for uncompensated creative and design work at the inception of a project. Avoid this like the plague—it's a devaluation of the entire design process and marginalizes our efforts as a whole. AIGA.org has great resources for dealing with spec work, including a sample letter that you can personalize and send to clients explaining why their request is unappreciated (see No. 19).
9. BUILD YOUR BOOK One piece of advice I give young designers looking to fill out their portfolios is to find the best local arts organization with the worst visual brand identity or website and make a trade. They get some great design work, and you get creative control and real-world projects in your book that other potential clients will recognize.
6. LEARN TO SAY 'NO' Some of your best design business decisions will ultimately be saying "no" to clients or projects. Unfortunately, it usually takes a few disasters to gain the experience to know when to walk away from an impending train wreck. Carefully measure the upsides of any project—creative control of your design work, long-term relationship-building and gross billing—versus the potential downsides—the devaluation of the creative process, being treated like a "vendor" and ongoing scope creep (where the volume of what you're expected to deliver keeps expanding, while the schedule and budget don't).
www.howdesign.com www.howdesign.com
"The most important inspirations and influences in your life and career will come from places other than the design world. Get away from the design scene and cultivate other interests, skills, and experiences. Those are the things that will give you passion and distinguish you."
"Almost any situation gets better when you ask yourself this: How can I be most useful right now? — Most useful to your employer, to your client, to the people you care for in your personal life, even to your future self. Asking 'How can I be most useful right now?' will get you past too little ambition, past too much ambition, past many interpersonal conflicts, boredom, frustration, and creative block. Sometimes the answer is 'I can be most useful to everybody — including me — by leaving,' but usually it'll lead you to creating better work!"
"What did I know? I knew that relationships were critical in design. I knew that hard work was required. I knew that I needed inspiration beyond graphic design. "What did I not know? I didn't know that time is forgiving. Saul Bass told me that success is defined by a series of successful projects over an extended period of time. I didn't listen. I was convinced that every project was my last chance to succeed. Alternatively, each failure signaled the end of my career. Saul was right. Some projects were as ugly as something the cat coughed up, but the next one was better. And some projects were incredibly successful, and then the next one came along and it was left behind. The world isn't black and white."
"There's a lyric from the song, Ooh La La by The Faces that says, 'I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger.' I think of this any time someone asks me what advice I would give young people just starting out. On the one hand, there are a thousand things that I've learned over the years that would have made my early professional life easier; things I know now. On the other hand, the great joy of life is learning and growing and making one's own mistakes. I'd feel robbed if— when I was younger— someone had taken that away from me. "So my advice is to remember that success is a map of failures; Explore with courage. Draw the contours with grace."
"Make sure to balance work and life. Without balance you may experience early career burn out or create undue emotional strain on yourself and the ones you love. "Connect with nature. Get out of your head and into your body. Nature reminds us to listen, think, and feel in ways that feed our intuition. "Travel. It enriches your life on every level. But there's more to it because it takes us out of the context of what we know. It challenges us to exercise muscles that we don't normally use. "There's so much to learn from immersion in the unfamiliar. The benefit is a heightened sense of empathy and compassion — along with a sprinkling of humility. Chance invites spontaneity and play, which fuel creativity. Being open to chance — wherever you are — is a fearless act."
"Work for things, and with people, you believe are good. Good work and good people attract more good. "Work outdoors. If you're stuck, go outside and watch squirrels or take a walk. Take paper and a pen. "Give your own work devotion."
"Talent is essential for success as a creative professional, but you also need mastery of current methodology and tools, excellent people skills, and business savvy to make your career sustainable over the long haul."
"Never stop learning. Embrace what interests you and stay on top of it. Everything you need to know is a never-ending pursuit. It doesn't stop when you are handed a degree or when you accept your first job. Keep taking classes. Find ways to mingle with other designers who do what you do. Actively research and discover what is out there and who is doing it really well. Ignite discussions with them. Share your passions with your colleagues, friends, spouse. Keep acting as your own teacher and play, practice, experiment and share. Above all else, stay curious and authentic."
"Early on, if anyone had been able to tell me exactly the right thing, I would have dismissed it as preposterous because the world has just changed too much in unforeseen ways. "However, here's my advice: get a second degree in something totally different— neuroscience, medicine, linguistics, or whatever feels right. "Design is what all humans do when they have intent and act upon it. Good design skills are most powerful when applied where they intersect with another discipline or two, or three. It is no longer enough to be a specialist only in design. Make your niche at those points of intersection, where future innovation will bloom."
"Be interested in something besides design. It is invigorating to work with a designer that is passionate about what they do, but I am finding myself in too many conversations with designers that only know their field and nothing else. Read anything that you can. Know the classics for reference purposes, understand mythology, know how a steam engine works, how to change a bobbin, calculate compound interest, and why the North Star doesn't move. "Yes, great design skills, knowledge, and draftsmanship are fundamental. It's what you know beyond that world that allows you to conceive of a solution your fellow designers are oblivious to. Load your chamber with everything you can so when it's your turn to take a shot, you have something to fire at the challenge besides surface."
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
In website design, it was important to combine the interests of different stakeholders: marketing, branding, visual design, and usability. Marketing and branding people needed to enter the interactive world where usability was important. Usability people needed to take marketing, branding, and aesthetic needs into account when designing websites. User experience provided a platform to cover the interests of all stakeholders: making web sites easy to use, valuable, and effective for visitors. This is why several early user experience publications focus on website user experience
hbr.org hbr.org
Resetting expectations. As corporate leaders become aware of the power of design, many view design thinking as a solution to all their woes. Designers, enjoying their new level of strategic influence, often reinforce that impression. When I worked with the entertainment company, I was part of that problem, primarily because my livelihood depended on selling design consulting. But design doesn't solve all problems. It helps people and organizations cut through complexity. It's great for innovation. It works extremely well for imagining the future. But it's not the right set of tools for optimizing, streamlining, or otherwise operating a stable business. Additionally, even if expectations are set appropriately, they must be aligned around a realistic timeline—culture changes slowly in large organizations. An organizational focus on design offers unique opportunities for humanizing technology and for developing emotionally resonant products and services. Adopting this perspective isn't easy. But doing so helps create a workplace where people want to be, one that responds quickly to changing business dynamics and empowers individual contributors. And because design is empathetic, it implicitly drives a more thoughtful, human approach to business.
Embracing risk. Transformative innovation is inherently risky. It involves inferences and leaps of faith; if something hasn't been done before, there's no way to guarantee its outcome. The philosopher Charles Peirce said that insights come to us "like a flash"—in an epiphany—making them difficult to rationalize or defend. Leaders need to create a culture that allows people to take chances and move forward without a complete, logical understanding of a problem. Our partners at the entertainment company were empowered to hire a design consultancy, and the organization recognized that the undertaking was no sure thing.
Several years ago, I consulted for a large entertainment company that had tucked design away in a select group of "creatives." The company was excited about introducing technology into its theme parks and recognized that a successful visitor experience would hinge on good design. And so it became apparent that the entire organization needed to embrace design as a core competence. This shift is never an easy one. Like many organizations with entrenched cultures that have been successful for many years, the company faced several hurdles.
IBM and GE are hardly alone. Every established company that has moved from products to services, from hardware to software, or from physical to digital products needs to focus anew on user experience. Every established company that intends to globalize its business must invent processes that can adjust to different cultural contexts. And every established company that chooses to compete on innovation rather than efficiency must be able to define problems artfully and experiment its way to solutions.
Design thinking is an essential tool for simplifying and humanizing.
"There's no longer any real distinction between business strategy and the design of the user experience," said Bridget van Kralingen, the senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services, in a statement to the press. In November 2013 IBM opened a design studio in Austin, Texas—part of the company's $100 million investment in building a massive design organization
the iterative process works at GE: "GE is moving away from a model of exhaustive product requirements. Teams learn what to do in the process of doing it, iterating, and pivoting." Employees in every aspect of the business must realize that they can take social risks—putting forth half-baked ideas, for instance—without losing face or experiencing punitive repercussions.
Tolerate failure. A design culture is nurturing. It doesn't encourage failure, but the iterative nature of the design process recognizes that it's rare to get things right the first time. Apple is celebrated for its successes, but a little digging uncovers the Newton tablet, the Pippin gaming system, and the Copland operating system—products that didn't fare so well. (Pippin and Copland were discontinued after only two years.) The company leverages failure as learning, viewing it as part of the cost of innovation.
In design-centric organizations, you'll typically see prototypes of new ideas, new products, and new services scattered throughout offices and meeting rooms. Whereas diagrams such as customer journey maps explore the problem space, prototypes explore the solution space. They may be digital, physical, or diagrammatic, but in all cases they are a way to communicate ideas. The habit of publicly displaying rough prototypes hints at an open-minded culture, one that values exploration and experimentation over rule following.
- May 2018
rickcornett.com rickcornett.com
Lastly, as a designer, the UX / UI world is not your only avenue to designer career path fulfillment. I've seen career paths for designers go in a thousand creative directions. And in a career that may last 30+ years, be open to changing industries or career focus to ensure long-term relevance. Art Director in an Ad Agency? Make that switch to UX. Copywriter still writing direct mail? Go take a content strategy course. Alan Ball, the screenwriter of the film American Beauty was working as a graphic designer at Adweek when the idea for the film hit him. A classmate of mine from design school later went on to become an iron chef. The point is to keep an open mind, be open to where life takes you and don't get tunnel vision on what you *think* you should be doing. Designer Career paths are long, and can take you in a lot of surprising, interesting directions, if you're open to it. One of my favorite quotes is "if you want to hear god laugh, tell him your plans."
- Apr 2018
vidooly.com vidooly.com
Remember Justin Bieber? He was a YouTube star and he's no short of becoming a 21st-century musical legend! Ever heard of PewDiePie? The YouTube Vlogger has more than 3 billion views and has made around $21 million with his YouTube content. BlueXephos, Disney Collector BR, Smosh, Ray William Johnson are some other YouTube Success stories who have made millions with their fresh, original, entertaining YouTube content that found audiences worldwide. YouTube is certainly seductive as a career. Access to a global audience and the alternative of pursuing your interests with creativity. Isn't that something worth working for! But not every channel has a billion views and there are some cons to YouTube too. But first, let's take a look at some of the pros of having a YouTube career: It lets you follow your passion Unless you are working for the National Geographic or Discovery, desk jobs are really mundane. Not every graduate or educated professional ends up working for fun lifestyle channels. Not every show producers get the chance of producing interesting shows like Buffy the vampire slayer or Pushing daisies. Some projects never even find success, some scripts go straight to the dustbin. Whether you are a writer, producer, entertainer or director, Youtube gives you the choice of following your own passion, unleashing your creativity. Got an idea? Just write a script, self-produced and broadcast. Youtube career is not just about a steady paycheck. It's about finding your audience, getting them to resonate with you while you follow your passion. It lets you connect with strangers with shared passions and drives from all over the world. No degrees needed, no minimum age Want to make videos for Youtube? Just get your phone out and start shooting. Want them to look a bit more professional? Get a DSLR and some other YouTube Equipment. You don't need a lifetime of debt and a snobbish college degree to get a Youtube career. Talent alone is enough. If you know what resonates with your audience, you can start creating video content for your Youtube channel, strategize your posts and start connecting with your audience. The idea is that if you are starting a Youtube Channel, you are your own boss. People online are searching for relevant, entertaining, educating and inspiring information. As long as you can create content that your audience finds powerful and motivating, you can enjoy a youtube career without needing a college degree. You don't need to be a specific age to start your own channel either. You may want to pursue discretion regarding your channel content depending on your age and your audience's age. But other than this, anyone, young or adult can start a youtube channel. Youtube has helped a lot of musicians and artists find an audience online and close deals with mega recording companies. No need for a physical office Got a brilliant idea? Want to set up your Youtube channel? Don't worry. You can start it anywhere, anytime without any specific capital or partners. You can start it from your bedroom or your kitchen with just some decent video shooting stuff and interesting scripts. You don't have to invite your crew to an office every Monday-Friday and work from your home or even when you are on vacation. You may expand later and set up a physical office but if you want to take a slow, no need to go for the big decision. Just work from home! No Pressure Youtube is sure competitive and it's hard to make your mark but all you need is conviction and understanding. You need to understand your audience, learn what they search and what topics are most revered. And, there is no pressure. You don't have to worry about medical leaves or too much paperwork. You don't need to write case studies on weekends or study top business blogs every Monday morning. Just get started with your scripts and work them whenever you like. As long as you have powerful content that moves your audience, you won't face any pressure. There are plenty more advantages like Youtube serves as a great portfolio option for videographers and directors who want to keep practicing before making the big career move. So, professionals can post weekly or monthly videos to upload fresh, original content even when working other jobs. Depending on the analytics and success of the videos, channel owners can make the big move to pursuing the channel full time. User-generated content is given preference in the times when even reality shows are scripted. So, there is quite a wide scope for Youtube as a career. However, one just needs to find and cultivate the audience with original, fresh, engaging and entertaining ideas. Now let's take a look at some of the cons of pursuing YouTube as a career: The cost of producing fine content It's good to have a million dollar idea but you need funding to propel it forward. Producing Video content on iPhone or Android phones is great and DIY but if you are aiming for the stars, you really need decent gear. Gear alone could cost you a fortune. A studio setup is usually owned by big channels who invest once, upgrade frequently and reap ROI with regular results through consistent series and shows. If you are really keen on producing top quality content, you need costly gear. Hiring talent for your videos may cost you money too. You need to hire scriptwriter/dialogue writers for scripted videos, directors, and director of photography for shooting the content and lighting equipment for well lit indoor videos. Moreover, you need video editing done so that costs too. Consistency Youtube has millions of makeup tutorials, all of which use high end, luxury makeup products. Not many video channels have the capital to invest in the materials needed like makeup or phone for phone review channel. Establishing yourself to qualify for free samples initially may give channels a tough time. Producing videos consistently with the same quality is another challenge as developing the right script may take time. Channel owners may not have sufficient content to go onboard with another video or a follow up in the series. Or the content may not be as powerful as the prequels, losing audience's interest. It takes time Viral videos are otherworldly. It's hard to tell if the viral factor is wholly organic in cases of viral videos. Perhaps forces of SEO and other tactics are at work there. But the idea is that it's hard to get your Youtube channel some takes with organic content. Even if your content is focused on trends, it's hard to find an audience altogether. 300 hours of videos are uploaded to Youtube every minute. Just imagine the choice YouTubers have! So, it's really hard to be among the 5 billion videos that are watched every day on YouTube. Cultivating an organic audience of hundreds of thousands of viewers may take time. Ideas get copied Starting a Youtube Channel is easy. What if your idea gets copied and the copied video finds the momentum that you couldn't? A lot of brands pursue plagiarism cases aggressively but small-time channel owners aren't able to keep track of the new content so there's no way of finding out if the idea got copied unless it blew up. Conclusion Youtube is another coin with two sides and the choice really depends on you if you are prepared for the hard work or would like a steady paycheck. It sure takes money to make impressive videos with high quality and there is no shortage of haters and trolls. But you really do need conviction and vision. Are you sure you possess the talent that will make viewers stop and stare? How much faith do you have in your content? Will it set a bar, up the standards and challenge the mainstream and traditional video content? Do you enjoy working late nights, not having a regular paycheck, shooting and editing videos frequently, developing scripts, coordinating with entertainers, broadcasting cutting-edge content? If yes, Youtube is for you.
Ever heard of PewDiePie? The YouTube Vlogger has more than 3 billion views and has made around $21 million with his YouTube content. BlueXephos, Disney Collector BR, Smosh, Ray William Johnson are some other YouTube Success stories who have made millions with their fresh, original, entertaining YouTube content that found audiences worldwide.
- Feb 2018
www.adweek.com www.adweek.com
Production and post-production is, by many accounts, the most profitable element of the entire agency equation, and holding companies aim to boost those totals
www.adweek.com www.adweek.com
as clients' marketing budgets decrease and agency profit margins feel the squeeze.
One boss allegedly followed a round of layoffs by warning employees that all production work needed to remain in-house if they wanted to keep their jobs, in part because production is the agency's only profitable department.
All major agency holding companies have launched their own production and postproduction units in recent years as part of what one agency veteran called "a revenue grab." In some cases, they have publicized this information, but the new divisions largely operate under the radar despite employing hundreds of people. "This isn't a threat to high-end production companies," said one source who has worked in that industry for years, "But it will wipe out the whole middle range of independent companies."
- Sep 2017
www.sciencemag.org www.sciencemag.orgmyIDP1
collection of articles on why IDPs are useful
biosciences.stanford.edu biosciences.stanford.edu
IDP Forms and Documentation
for PhD students
www.med.upenn.edu www.med.upenn.edu
Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
for PhD students
- Aug 2017
www.smashingmagazine.com www.smashingmagazine.com
Design Talent or Design Skill?
www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk
Can Design be Taught or Do you Need Talent?
- May 2017
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Listerine, for example, started life on the shelf as an antiseptic, sold as both floor cleaner and a treatment for gonorrhoea. But it wasn't a runaway success until it was marketed as a treatment for bad breath.
Interesting use-case
But many ideas are destined for improvement
you may start with something and end up with something totally different
- Brainstorm.
- Break the idea and fix idea. (Scrutinize)
- Permeate and let the idea seep into you.
- Execute - execute -execute
There are many people with good ideas who don't have the means, the will, or the courage to action them. Similarly, there are very talented business people who have no ideas, but are brilliant at the execution.
figure out what you want to be and continue on that path, get better at it, and invest time and effort into it.
- Apr 2017
brunch.co.kr brunch.co.kr
thesiswhisperer.com thesiswhisperer.com
On the importance of social skills for PhD candidates -- and anyone, actually.
- Dec 2016
benng.me benng.me
Good advice for mentors and mentees, and why it's usually hard for a manager to be a mentor to the same person.
- Oct 2016
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On Being a Senior Engineer. Traits of a mature programmer. By John Allspaw, CTO at Etsy.


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This can be quite difficult to do on your own, especially when considering just how pervasive ants truly are. From here, your exterminator will work to apply the proper bait to attract ants and prevent them from returning.
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Formerly Vintner's Harvest, now renamed Mangrove Jack's SN9. Saccharomyces Bayanus.
Very good all round strain for country wines, sweet sparkling wines and ciders, and the best choice for high alcohol and fortified sweet wines. The pack contains 8 gram of yeast which is enough for 25 litres.
SN9 is a particularly neutral fermenter contributing significantly to weight and structure, an excellent choice for flower or low fruit recipes or where uncertain recipes are employed and fermentation reliability is a key factor.
SN9 is a rapid fermenter with high stress and ethanol tolerance and high glycerol production. SN9 is also the
most osmotolerant and the fasting clearing of all Vintner's Harvest strains.
No hydration required – add direct to must and stir well.
For best results ferment at 22-26 degrees C (72-78 degrees F).


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MADISON, Wis., Oct. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliant Energy Corporation (LNT) has scheduled its third quarter 2019 earnings release for Wednesday, November 6th, after market close. A conference call to review the third quarter results is scheduled for Thursday, November 7th at 9:00 a.m. CT.
Alliant Energy will webcast the event live at www.alliantenergy.com/investors. The call is open to the public and will be hosted by John Larsen, Chairman, President and CEO; and Robert Durian, Senior Vice President and CFO. Individuals who would like to participate in the conference call can do so by dialing (888) 394-8218 (United States & Canada) or (323) 794-2149 (international), passcode 4175543.
A replay of the call will be available through November 14, 2019, at (888) 203-1112 (United States & Canada) or (719) 457-0820 (international). Callers should reference passcode 4175543 and pin 9578. An archive of the webcast will also be available on the company's website at www.alliantenergy.com/investors.
Alliant Energy Corporation (LNT), headquartered in Madison, Wis., provides regulated electric and natural gas service to 965,000 electric and 415,000 natural gas customers in the Midwest. Alliant Energy's mission is to deliver the energy solutions and exceptional service customers and communities count on – safely, efficiently and responsibly. Interstate Power and Light Company and Wisconsin Power and Light Company are Alliant Energy's two public utility subsidiaries. Alliant Energy Corporation is a component of the S&P 500. For more information, visit alliantenergy.com.
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By Christian Le Feuvre (Manchester, UK)
The Foreigner is a terrific thriller directed by Martin Campbell and stars Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan.
The opening scenes see Jackie Chan's character taking his daughter to buy a dress for her school prom night, and whilst he is parking his car and she has already run into the shop to have a look, the shop is destroyed by an IRA terrorist bomb and his daughter is killed. Once he learns it was down to an IRA attack and the police investigation is seemingly going no-where, he goes to confront Northern Ireland's First Minister Liam Hennessy, played by Pierce Brosnan, who was a former IRA leader to get the names of the bombers so he can hunt them down personally.
This is a revenge thriller movie but it is far more realistic than most, especially Taken 2, Martin Campbell has done a far more gritty movie and it explores both the political consequences following a terrorist attack as well as the personal ones.
It's a storyline we have seen before but the way that Campbell's clever direction style takes us through it in a fresh way, is what made this film so intriguing for me.
We don't know much about Chan's character and his past at first, but that's what I loved about this film, it doesn't lay it all out in the first scenes and let you sit back and watch how it unfolds, it takes you along for the ride and slowly builds up the thrills and understanding of the characters, and the more we learn about his back-story, the clearer things become.
There are some brilliant action scenes, and most Jackie Chan fans will obviously expect the fight scenes which he is known for, unfortunately if that's what you are expecting from him you will be disappointed. Yes there are some fight scenes of course, and Jackie Chan is excellent, but this is a different type of movie altogether. In this film he's an older man, consumed by pain and grief, and he gives an excellent dramatic performance. So please don't expect just a Jackie Chan action film, as actually the trailers lead us to believe, it's a tense political thriller.
Pierce Brosnan gives one of the best performances in his career as far as I'm concerned. He is terrific in this movie. He has a lot of incredible scenes, some really powerful dialogue and some intense moments too. I did love Jackie Chan in this film but for me, Pierce Brosnan steals it.
This is a thriller, it is far more 'wordy' than just a 'revenge action movie'. Martin Campbell has done an excellent job with The Foreigner. Jackie Chan has the ability to give us an amazing dramatic performance while still giving his fans a few action fight scenes which he is known for.
Even though, as I mentioned, this is a 'wordy' film, it is never boring, although those just watching for Jackie Chan might find it so.
This is a good classic thriller, really strong performances from all the actors, it's well paced and brilliantly directed.
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A few years ago, Social Media was an evolving technology praised more for its technical virtues than its capability to request to the people. For a log time, there was a significant change in the way masses participate in social media and make use of it to humanise the interactions between organisations and the community. When the use of social networking websites began to increase rapidly, businesses took notice. Those shrewd companies realised about reaching out to people in social media gave them the opportunity to cast a broad net in the target route.
For instance, companies could place ads targeted towards women in popular fashion blogs and gaining thousands of their attention per day. The change happened when businesses or corporations recognised the key to success lay in interaction, for example, giving target people the ability to have a two-way conversation. Moreover, this is not long before non-profit organisations followed suit.
To get the most benefit from adding social media to our marketing plan, it should be a part of the complete business strategy. All the applied tactics must directly support the organisation's objectives and goals. As there are so many social media platforms available, which platform and tactics are most applicable? The answer depends on:
- The time we have to devote to social media each week?
- What will be the main objectives and goals?
- How do this social media help to meet the goals?
- Which are platform audience engaged more?
Here are the most popular websites and tools:
- FACEBOOK helps in communicating softer news and helps in building community.
- TWITTER contributes to getting connected to followers by sending updates which are timely and exciting.
- FLICKR helps in managing photos and graphic images while sharing with the target. (Photos of events and activities for Non-profits)
- LINKEDIN contributes to getting introduced to and collaborate with professionals.
- YOUTUBE helps in uploading and sharing video clips to the public.
- BLOGS contributes to exchange ideas in greater depth and lets us share tips and expertise related to the goal.
- PODCASTS helps in educating the audience with recorded news and information framed by current events data about the organisation.
Other than creating social media campaign, non-profits should participate in other groups in the social media like commenting on blogs, join on FB fan pages.
The non-profits should try to incorporate a mix of messaging objectives targeted towards users in social media. Proper brand awareness helps in engaging in social media and keep our organisation at the forefront of the user's minds. We should ensure each of the platforms is clearly branded. Branding contributes to reinforcing who the non-profit is and what it stands for. Education or provide the information to the users about the issues our organisation addresses. Eg, share news links or case studies. Social media is a great tool for mobilising groups of people to volunteer or attend events. The helps in the times of disasters and war. In 2009, a worldwide Twitter event named "Twestival" launched in Uganda, Ethiopia and India. The goal of this event was to provide clean drinking water, and as a result, the event raised a fund more than $250,00 US dollar.
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- Balwani, S. (2009). Advanced Social Media Marketing Strategies for Businesses. [online] Mashable. Available at: http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/small-business-strategies/#AbNFEe9cjkq4 [Accessed 17 May 2017].
- Lauby, S. (2009). 10 Must-Haves for Your Social Media Policy. [online] Mashable. Available at: http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/social-media-policy-musts/#v0XepF5ZJ8q9 [Accessed 18 May 2017].
- 4Hamblen, M. (2017). Text 'Haiti' earthquake relief effort. [online] Computerworld. Available at: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2520879/networking/text–haiti–earthquake-relief-effort-raises–32m-for-red-cross.html [Accessed 17 May 2017].
- Onlinelibrary.wiley.com. (2017). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication – Volume 22, Issue 1 – January 2017 – Wiley Online Library. [online] Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcc4.2017.22.issue-1/issuetoc [Accessed 17 May 2017].
- Grove, J. (2009). 3 Great Social Media Policies to Steal From. [online] Mashable. Available at: http://mashable.com/2009/10/02/social-media-policy-examples/#GrmZ.cfeqqqs [Accessed 17 May 2017].
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Talk:Affiliations Committee
To be archivedEdit
The archiving tool is not set up in the standard way. Probably all the archives here need cleanup. I do not have labor to commit to this now, so I am going to cap the 2014-2017 discussion here. This entire collection of discussions needs cleanup to conform to the normal standards of talk page archives. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:57, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Brazil Next steps discussion is missing your participationEdit
Thank you for starting the discussion on the page Talk:Affiliations Committee/Brazil Next Steps.
Please, do not forget to follow the discussion. It is been a while and nobody from AffCom commented. It would be nice to at least refer if we are going to have an answer or not. I don't know if members of AffCom were notified about the discussion and maybe that is why you are not there. So, I am reporting here. Regards.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 16:52, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- I'll second this concern, it would be very constructive to have input from Affcom members on that page. Chico Venancio (talk) 18:40, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Why is that page almost abandoned? Wasn't it created to be a place where questions could be asked by the community, and answers would be provided by the AffCom?--- Darwin Ahoy! 21:46, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Another week has gone by. Should we expect any involvement from Affcom or WMF? Chico Venancio (talk) 18:40, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
2 more weeks have gone by and we still have radio silence on most issues. Chico Venancio (talk) 18:42, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia community in danger, Wikimedia Portugal in distressEdit
See thread Plea from Wikimedia Portugal
Whenever any Wikimedia affiliate is in trouble, every Wikimedia affiliate is in trouble. We all depend on each other. If anyone fails the responsibility for blame includes the WMF, AffCom, and each Wikimedia affiliate in proportion to its resources.
Whatever is happening with Portugal is unfortunate for us all. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:59, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
The trouble with Wikimedia Portugal could be a signal of a more systemic troubles. Here are some issues I see -
- Lack of on-wiki discussion forums about Wikimedia affiliation
- The lack of activity at this talk page, which is the natural center of discussion and seemingly ideal place for archival records
- The lack of any other central repository for reporting, sorting, and addressing claims
- Although the wiki community needs a place to speak, it also needs whatever liberty encourages open discussion
- AffCom and related powers control funding and the destiny of entire cultures - this creates a chilling effect around surfacing problems
- So far as I know there has never been any public discussion about conflict of interest in relationships between the Wikimedia Foundation, AffCom, and the Wikimedia affiliates
- There are lots of reasons to believe that people cannot speak freely even when they have problems which Wikimedia community infrastructure could address and support.
I do not see what will resolve the challenges with Wikimedia Portugal but I expect that part of the solution is open and transparent conversation. It is not appropriate to only surface problems when they have grown to be huge, out of control, desperate, and a global problem for all Wikimedia community groups.
Just curious, is anyone else aware of any other Wikimedia affiliate having any challenges, questions, or concerns about the affiliation process but which are not on this talk page?
We have a community of 10s of 1000s of members. Is it truly correct that on this page, which seems to be our highest and most authoritative record, that there was 1 comment in 2018, 3 in 2017, and 1 in 2016? I strongly suspect that every year thousands of Wikimedia community hours go into bureaucratic processes related to AffCom. Everyone in the wiki world knows this organization. Everyone is keenly aware that this organization is intimately tied to community groups making grant requests to the WMF and those grants making wishes come true.
Is there anyone who thinks the Wikimedia community could be lacking for things to say on the matter of affiliation? Is that the reason for the lack of discussion here and seemingly elsewhere? Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:59, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for caring, Bluerasberry. I also have requested more attention from AffCom to a certain issues (above), but my questions weren't properly addressed IMO. I am not trying to make it sound as if you support my complaints, but just want to say that it is nice to see that others also care about it. Hoping for more transparency, dialogue, and fairness. Regards.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 20:53, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Wiki Medicine seeking to become a Wikimedia thematic organizationEdit
While I am here for Portugal and asking about conversation on this AffCom page I should share the news I have.
Wiki Project Med is a global multilingual community of Wikimedia contributors on all Wikimedia projects who develop content related to medicine. This organization is currently seeking AffCom recognition as a Wikimedia thematic organization.
The request was made before Wikimania 2018 in South Africa. The application is at Wiki Project Med/Application.
If any individual can give review or support to this group transition from user group to thematic organization then please sign off on the application. If any Wikimedia chapter can review and endorse collectively then that would be most welcome. There seems to be no established process for this. I think that there have been no new chapters or thematic organizations since about 2013, so hopefully this medicine application can be part of a process for determining a process of review for affiliation. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:05, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
India has different communities still one nation! Rajinder Raina (talk) 23:41, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
AffCom participation in the voting processEdit
I originally posted this to Talk:Wikimedia Foundation bylaws/December 2018 - Affiliate-selected trustees, term limits, and diversity. @Raystorm: asked me to post this for comment here.
AffCom appoints user groups so AffCom shapes the Affiliate-selected Board seats election. Previously this election was imagined as a Wikimedia community organization process. To what extent is AffCom a Wikimedia community organization?
- Can anyone list all the Wikimedia Foundation employees, consultants, or any other paid staff who are paid to engage with AffCom?
- What budget or estimate of a budget for AffCom can anyone show? Can AffCom start publishing an annual budget, if its money is more than 0?
- Include an estimate of paid staff who do admin for AffCom
- Include travel costs to convene
- To what extent is AffCom and guiding the voting in the Affiliate-selected Board seats election part of the WMF administrative process? Are the designated AffCom staffers independent of other WMF roles, or do the AffCom staffers mingle with other interests and potentially bring those into AffCom
- To what extent do any paid staff set agendas, discussions, goals, or do strategic planning for AffCom?
- What sources of funding does AffCom have?
- What is the history of paid staff in AffCom? When did this start, where is the documentation?
The point of me asking about money is that in the past, it was imagined that AffCom was a community organization which operated on a budget similar to other Wikimedia community groups. I am curious about the extent to which this might have changed, and the extent to which money gets involved in the Affiliate-selected Board seats election, decisions which AffCom makes, the discussions it has, who shows up to participate, or whatever happens in AffCom with money that might not happen without money. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:44, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Bluerasberry! To provide some historical context, let me start at the end and work generally backwards through your questions:
- I'm not sure that viewing AffCom as a "community organization" is a particularly good way of looking at it when considering our relationship with the Wikimedia Foundation. AffCom—like the FDC—is formally an advisory committee to the Board, and has always had a relatively intimate working relationship with both the Board and various members of Wikimedia Foundation staff as a result. For the same reason, AffCom can't really be viewed as an entity "independent" of the Wikimedia Foundation in its broadest sense; our ultimate responsibility is to advise the Board, not to act in furtherance of our own, independent objectives.
- There have been a number Wikimedia Foundation staff who've interacted quite closely with AffCom since the committee was first formed—the legal department, in particular, has always worked closely with us, for what I imagine are obvious reasons—but the current model of having staff specifically dedicated to supporting committee's work as such began in late 2015, when Jaime Anstee and Rosemary Rein were assigned as our staff liaisons. The change was closely tied to a shift in the committee's workload—the bulk of our work moving from chapter recognition to user group recognition—and was intended at first to support the user group application and review process, which the committee had struggled to execute on a purely volunteer basis during the prior year. In the three years since then, the role of the staff supporting us has continued to evolve, just as the committee's own role has; for example, our staff liaisons now provide a significant degree of support for our inter-affiliate and intra-affiliate conflict investigation and mediation work, which has grown considerably as a segment of the committee's overall workload.
- That having been said, it's important to distinguish between the formal membership of the committee and our non-voting advisors, liaisons, and supporting staff (a full list of whom is available at Affiliations Committee/Members#Current members). The Wikimedia Foundation staff who support the committee are not voting members of the committee; they support our work in a variety of invaluable ways, ranging from the mundane (scheduling meetings and tracking action items) to the profound (conducting affiliate compliance investigations), but it is ultimately up to the committee's volunteer voting members to assess the information available to us (including both materials prepared by staff as well as other inputs) and make decisions. In this regard, AffCom is quite similar to the FDC.
- The overall AffCom budget consists of two somewhat distinct pools of funding: a direct budget for specific AffCom activities, including travel, and a proportional budget allocation for our staff support, which is integrated into the applicable Wikimedia Foundation departmental staff budgets. Our direct budget has typically run around $50,000 to $60,000 per year; for example, our 2018-19 budget consists of the following items:
Category Item Amount (USD) Travel Annual meeting at Wikimedia Summit $32,000 In-person training for Mediation Subcommittee $13,000 Visits to new or growing affiliates or to regional conferences $4,000 Volunteer Development AffCom and/or Affiliate leadership development $8,000 Total $57,000
- I'm not certain, offhand, what the specific budget allocation for our staff support is this year, but Jaime Anstee might be able to provide this number. In either case, this funding is directly allocated by the Wikimedia Foundation as part of its core budget.
- Please let me know if that answers your questions, and if you have any further ones. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 23:39, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hello, Bluerasberry, there are various staff who engage with the AffCom in the course of connecting foundation supports to the committee and affiliate issues. Combined, staff currently provide about one full-time equivalency from across the Community Engagement and Legal departments. The amount of support varies however, as some of this support is reactive and is dependent on needs. You can see the official staff liaisons and observers listed among non-voting advisors here on meta. JAnstee (WMF) (talk) 20:17, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- @JAnstee (WMF) and Kirill Lokshin: Thanks both of you. My questions are answered completely. Kirill I regret that I lack the resources to get you in front of an interviewer to talk for hours, because I would listen to whatever you stories you published. You both have been thorough and I appreciate the response.
- I will make a guess that the 1.0 FTE means about US$150,000/year. Correct me if I am wrong.
- My calculation is that the salary is about $100,000/year and other costs of having an employee are another US$50,000. With the WMF staffing and the costs Kirill mentioned, that makes the operation of AffCom a US$200,000 / year operation.
- There are about 140 Wikimedia chapter and user groups. I have trouble accessing data but I would guess that ~100 of them operate on a budget of less than US$5000/year. I would guess that the bottom 50% (70 groups) collectively consume less than $200,000 / year. I perceive an imbalance of power here where AffCom could be caught in conflicts of interest against Wikimedia movement affiliates. If the interests of the Wikimedia Foundation as an organization and the Wikimedia Movement ever come into conflict, then the money that AffCom controls could impede Wikimedia user affiliates from expressing themselves.
- I want to express that I perceive no urgent danger at this time. I post below that I think that AffCom came to a strange counter-wiki practice of establishing a norm of privacy in applying for user groups. If there had not been paid staff involved in the process, I have doubts that the Wikimedia community alone would have come to the conclusion that operating a user group can happen in private.
- In the longer term I wish that there could be a trend of resources associated with Wikimedia community group management mostly coming from the governance of Wikimedia community groups themselves. I do not need a particular response to any of this. I only wanted to speak my view in public. I also want to express that I am happy with AffCom and the WMF, and hope that the WMF encourages Wikimedia community expression of concerns by inviting them and making conversation as casual as possible. Another mark of community health is a steady stream of comments and concerns from a diverse userbase. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:04, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hello, Bluerasberry, there are various staff who engage with the AffCom in the course of connecting foundation supports to the committee and affiliate issues. Combined, staff currently provide about one full-time equivalency from across the Community Engagement and Legal departments. The amount of support varies however, as some of this support is reactive and is dependent on needs. You can see the official staff liaisons and observers listed among non-voting advisors here on meta. JAnstee (WMF) (talk) 20:17, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
No more private user group applications!Edit
With the WMF board at Wikimedia Foundation bylaws/December 2018 - Affiliate-selected trustees, term limits, and diversity issuing new Affiliate-selected Board seats voting rights to user groups the balance of power is changing.
I would like to request either a change in AffCom's process of recognizing user groups or otherwise an explanation for why a process came to be.
Currently user groups apply by private email which the Wikimedia community cannot access. The form is at Special:Contact/affcomusergroup. Other communication happens by email beyond this form.
This kind of non-transparent, off-wiki process is not the Wikimedia norm. The off-wiki process is even stranger considering that it got established without on-wiki discussion, that Wikimedia Foundation staff got involved in establishing a practice like this, and that it is not obvious why there is a need to elevate an application to a user group to be under the Access to nonpublic personal data policy.
I request either of the following responses:
- Move the application process to be on-wiki, and move the normal Wikimedia amount of information outside of Access to nonpublic personal data policy
- Explain why this information is private
- Name the individuals who said that user group applications should be private
- Identify which parts of the information are most sensitive
- Give a narrative of when and how anyone decided to start making this private.
The part about this that I perceive as most anti-wiki is that by default, user groups have no obligation to report the Wikimedia accounts associated with the user group's decision making process. For these groups to get a vote in an important election I feel that the Wikimedia community is at a great disadvantage for not being aware of Wikimedia accounts associated with groups. Why hide this information? Why do applicants prove their eligibility to be a user group to the WMF, but have no obligation to demonstrate eligibility to the Wikimedia community? Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:36, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Question to the AffCom: is this choice due to practical reasons (e.g., it is thought to be an easier process than writing on Meta) or do you feel that it is important to have private applications? - Laurentius (talk) 13:09, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
2019 Affiliate selected board seats electionEdit
It is time to plan the Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019 election!
Yo AffCom, if you like, update changes to the talk page of that election page. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:45, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Example of Wikimedia affiliate nameEdit
FYI I was reading the pages and I noticed this missing example.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:49, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Those aren't examples. WikiDonne is a group of Italian language teachers connected to Wikimedia, and Wikimujeres is a Spanish womens issues group. WikiXxxx doesn't exist. ~^\\\.rT'{~ g 23:07, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- User:RTG WikiDonne is not a group of "Italian language teachers", where did you get that? WikiDonne is a standard usergroups like other affiliates which are group of users, and is described using a WikiXxxxx string.--Alexmar983 (talk) 23:50, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Link to User language in header of table of Languages spoken by committee members.Edit
coded abbreviations like es-N, en-5, lad-4, pt-4, de-3, he-3, ca-2, guc-2, af-2, it-2 are not self-explanatory. In the header of the column listing Languages, there should be a link to User language. I'd do it but I can't figure out how the templates there work, and what underlying content they're actually referring to.... Thanks! ★NealMcB★ (talk) 15:23, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Role of AffCom discussion in Wikimedia Movement Strategy talks 2018-2019Edit
- Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Community_Conversations/Roles_&_Responsibilities#Role_of_the_AffCom
Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:03, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
missing info about de-recognition processEdit
It seems like the Wikimedia Foundation is the creator and only contributor to the de-recognition process, which is at
- Wikimedia movement affiliates/Protocol for noncompliant Wikimedia movement affiliates/Derecognition Process Mapping
This protocol is on the {{Affiliations Committee}} template, which seems to be how people access it.
I see that verdy p added the link in that template to this protocol in a November 2012 edit. Something funny happened here though, because somehow, the "Derecognition Process Mapping" page dates from February 2017. It is unorthodox in wiki to remove page histories. I wonder what explanation there could be for this. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:35, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
- Bluerasberry, the diff you've linked contains no references to the de-recognition protocol, so I'm really not sure what you're looking at here. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 10:19, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Kirill Lokshin:
- This content linked here
- Wikimedia movement affiliates/Protocol for noncompliant Wikimedia movement affiliates/Derecognition Process Mapping
- seems to date from February 2017.
- This template {{Affiliations Committee}}
- has a link to that content piped by the text "Derecognition Process Mapping". Verdy p applied that link in November 2012.
- I could be looking at this wrong, but if I am seeing this correctly, that means there was content in that link which was there 2012-2017, but then replaced in a strange way in 2017 and lost its history.
- Are you able to see the link to that content in that template? Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:30, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- Bluerasberry, I think I see what's going on here. The November 2012 edit was actually replacing the content of the {{Affiliations Committee}} template with a reference to the {{Affiliations Committee/en}} template, so if you're simply looking at the historical revision, it will render with the current contents of the referenced template (which, of course, include all of the modern links). The actual history that you're looking for is found under {{Affiliations Committee/layout}}; the de-recognition process link was added to it only a few days ago. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 00:06, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Proposal to add public notices to de-recognition processEdit
The derecognition process is strangely closed and private. The major problem is that as written, every step in the process is a private conversation between AffCom/WMF and the affiliate organization. The wiki default is for conversation to be in public.
I propose the following changes:
- Establish a subpage of AffCom which is a log of all noncompliance warnings. Linked notices like "July 2019 - noncompliance warning posted to talk page of Wikimedia User Group X" are sufficient
- The warnings on that subpage should link to a talk page posting of the meta page of the Wikimedia affiliate. Posting to an organization's talk page is the orthodox way of communicating with Wikimedia organizations.
- With this planning in place, change the procedure to publicly post warnings at various stages of noncompliance
- Basic Intervention/Remediation
- Probation
- Final Intervention
So far as I can tell, the current practice for derecognition involves no public notice. The current procedure seems to not require it, and also it seems not to be a practice.
The point of posting notice is to communicate the existence of problems to stakeholders who might not otherwise know they exist. For example, without notice Wikimedia community members who are members of affiliate organizations may be unaware of problems. Also, in the Wikimedia community everyone feels some solidarity with everyone else. It is a huge shock to suddenly get notice that a Wikimedia affiliate is troubled, and the natural tendency of the Wikimedia community is to feel pain at such information and to provide peer to peer support. A lack of notice is a barrier to community collaboration. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:34, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
- Bluerasberry, public notifications regarding compliance issues are something that's currently being planned; please see Wikimedia movement affiliates/Compliance Portal for more details. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 10:24, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Kirill Lokshin: thanks, after I posted this someone told me about that public notice process. I am happy with that process and the intent which is behind it. It is exactly what I wanted. Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:31, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Want to be a Voting MemberEdit
I would like to be a voting member of the Committee, please notify me when seats become available. --Manik Soren (talk) 16:24, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
"Wikimedia community-run committee"?Edit
Why does Affcom keep defining itself as a "Wikimedia community-run committee", when it is not chosen by the Wikimedia community (and is often actually chosen - by Affcom itself, no less - *against* the express wishes of the Wikimedia community), much less run by it? Wasn't it about time already to change that misinformation in the page, which less informed WMF staff keep parroting?--- Darwin Ahoy! 23:00, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
In-Person Meeting With Affiliations Committee Members at Wikimania 2019Edit
Hello @Kirill Lokshin: and others from Affcom, I am writing as per 1 and wanted to meet for Wikimedia India. I have already filled the form on Monday, 5th August 2019. I would be grateful to hear so that I may conveniently schedule or even re-schedule my other meetings and commitments. I will put this meeting on priority and do my best to find a mutually convenient time for all. Thanks. --Abhinav619 (talk) 11:39, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
Pinging: Maor Malul, Emna Mizouni, Derick Ndimnain Alangi, Sami Mlouhi, Biplab Anand, Kirill Lokshin, Camelia Boban, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Salvador Alcántar Morán, Farah Jack Mustaklem, Olushola Olaniyan, Reda Kerbouche, Manavpreet Kaur, May Hachem, Anasuya Sengupta, Patricio Lorente, Maria Sefidari, Jaime Anstee, Dumisani Ndubane, Kalliope Tsouroupidou, Charles Roslof, Stephen LaPorte, Winifred Olliff, and Delphine Ménard
The Communications department has been doing some research related to branding, in the context of the 2030 strategy. Communications/Wikimedia brands/2030 research and planning seems to be the central page. I want to very strongly encourage AffCom-related folks to join the discussions about things that do/don't work for the movement. Most of the attention at the moment seems to be on giving affiliates and projects more options. Depending upon future decisions, etc., it might be appropriate to change some AffCom-related policies, and of course I don't want any outcomes that make your job more difficult.
The place to watch is https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/g/brand-network Please follow Chuck's example and sign up for this discussion group.
:-D Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:47, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Want to be a Voting MemberEdit
I wish to be notified when seats become available to join the Affiliations Committee as a voting member. —M@sssly✉ 10:29, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Masssly: and @Manik Soren: The committee has posted this year's call for candidates. JAnstee (WMF) (talk) 18:33, 17 December 2019 (UTC)


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