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Short presentation of the chapter

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  • Founded 2006
  • 65 members
  • our third general assembly took place March 15, 2008 where our present board of six was elected
  • our budget balance for 2007 is around 37k euro

What has been done so far

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  • workshops together with government agencies (Zurich department of education)
  • political lobbying
  • lobbying for the release of official pictures.

Plans for the future

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  • Some projects with Library of University of Zürich
  • Wm CH Board and association retreat for setting up a strategy for the next years.

Best success

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  • Organization of three Wikipedia days with a lot of media interest and speakers of high quality
  • Coverage of all four national/regional languages with a press speaker also in Rumantsch Grischun
  • Small ERP system to manage finance and invoices

Worst headache

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  • Difference of languages and difficulties to have a well defined community
  • Slow Communication (our web sites are translated in 5 languages)
  • Regional and local strong presence but limited presence in other cantons