Queering Wikipedia 2020/notes 2019-11-07
Appearance
Queering Wikipedia: 1st conference coordination meeting
[edit]November 7, 2019
[edit]Time
[edit]- 8pm UK time (midday PST, 3pm EST, 9pm in France, Check other Timezones)
Agenda
[edit]Anyone in this meeting can edit / propose / rearrange this agenda.
- Programming ideas
- Establish common culture(?s)
- What narrative does Wikimedia LGBT+ have for itself right now?
- What do we collectively do well?
- What are our collective challenges?
- Increasing amount of content?
- Improving quality of content?
- Increasing distribution of existing content across Wikimedia platforms / language communities / cultures?
- Better support for LGBT+ people and programs in Wikimedia community program administration?
- Solidarity with Gender equality and Sexuality related advocates and programs?
- Support in response to misconduct / discrimination?
- Establish common culture(?s)
- Wikimedia LGBT+ administration
- being a registered Wikimedia affiliate organization - what does this mean to us?
- benefits
- funding for conferences like this one
- invitation for a representative to the Wikimedia Summit
- standing to organize in support of grant proposals
- costs
- The more benefits we exercise, the more reporting and documentation commitments we carry
- Historically for most wiki organizations, administration in the wiki process is difficult and stressful
- Various challenges common as patterns among other wiki organizations
- Theme?
- "Queering Wikipedia"?
- How do we understand Queering? (Queer vs. just LGBT)
- What is there to Queer?
- For whome we Queer Wikipedia?
- How do we do this?
- content development?
- outreach to individuals?
- outreach to organizations?
- thinking out of the (sand)box?
- doing/code&design out of the (sand)box?
- Invited participants?
- Scholarship plan
- Method of determination
- Attendees without travel funding support
- Scholarship plan
- Committees
- core team
- programming
- local team
- scholarship
- outreach communication
- webpage
- individual contact through email, etc
- posting notices of scholarships, conference, planning for social media
- internal communication
- documentation for WMF grant requirements
- managing calendar / planning meetups
- Special invited guests or keynote speakers?
- This is a community conference - do we want a keynote speaker?
- Any other special guests?
- By offer - Samaritans (Q7408851) presentation for 90-120 minutes
Participants
[edit]- John Samuel
- Kaizenify
- Fæ (talk)
- RachelWex (talk)
- I will try to join - not sure. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:25, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Zblace will join, but maybe with small delay (will also fix my account here, for sure with huge delay ;-)[1]
- Maxdalenareiter
Meeting Notes
[edit]- Reference: Notes
- Notes taken by: Rachel, Fae, Houssem, John S, Magdalena, kikice, nattes a chat (and a little of Jeffrey)
Updates
[edit]- Agreement will be signed by the end of this week
- Full financial support requested in the grant received!
- We will have some support for free accommodations as well
- Wikimedia Austria providing support with their human resources
- Wikimedia Chapters have been contacted. Wikimedia France willing to pay the participants.
- Scholarship and Program teams have started discussions
Conference suggestions
[edit]- Dates of conference: Queering Wikipedia: 21 May - 24 May Linz (4 days)
- Suggestion: Friday, Saturday and Sunday (May 22 - May 24)
- If we have to include 21 May, make it a casual social and pick up of badge / swag. Pre-conference on May 21 (possible edit-a-thon, admin / special user group meetings? Code of Conduct meetings?)
- Holiday on Thursday 21 May in Austria--but people can be available
- Official Kick Off of Conference on May 22, end on May 24
- How long will we have the venue available each day?
-- 24 hours / day availability! -- open workshop space! makerspace! at least 4 conference rooms, plus 2 workshop rooms (small)
- Day 1: 9 am - 6 pm?
- 10 am - 6 pm
- 10 am - 6 pm
- Minimum of 50 participants, but 20-25 scholarships available
- Ideally if we get 70-80 people to participate that would be great
- Swiss and French chapter would pay for the trips of their Wikipedians--would those be included in the scholarships? No--they would be for people without affiliate / chapter support
- Grant covering the catering and accommodation, plus the swag
- Scholarship folx would have their visa and flight fees covered
- Speakers/presenters can apply for scholarships
- Social venues at the conference are very important
- WMF encouraging us to use Trello for our conference planning
- venue is flexible: Grandgarage: can be used for 24 hours a day
- https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:User:Tsui/Linz_Tabakfabrik_2019
- open workshops, 3D printers available in the venue, lots of conference rooms available
- Gives time for post-conference meetings
- Movie watching suggestion
- 4 rooms (closed)
- + 5 to 6 rooms with monitors
- small groups possible
- 5G Internet (so live streams are possible)
Queering Wikipedia Themes
[edit]- Queering Wikipedia is the main theme: we can draft a paragraph as to what this means
- Make this for a press release as well, for talking points about the conference
- We will work on the draft Queering Wikipedia paragraph on the Events page for the Queering Wikipedia conference--Rachel will get it started
- Representation from 5 continents on the planning committee!
Next Meeting
[edit]- Next coordination meeting in 2 weeks?
- Thu Nov 21: 3 pm Central Standard Time US / 4 pm Eastern Standard Time US / 10 pm CST Europe
- free venue for 50 people (Magdalena has to check)
- template that could be used to manage such a conference
- Theme: "Queering Wikipedia"? We need to create a press release for the conference in coming 6 weeks
--> do you want WMat/Magdalena to cover local press?