User:EPorto (WMB)/Sandbox/CALIBRA
Report of activities for 2023 - CALIBRA
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First quarter report (Jan-Mar)
CALIBRA team meetings
In 2022, WMB applied for a grant to develop leadership skills in Brazil as part of a Movement Strategy Implementation Grant[1], which focused on the 6th recommendation "Invest in Skills and Leadership", and on the 33rd initiative "Leadership Development Plan". The project involved several people and counted multiple community activities and presentations at events and conferences in addition to monthly meetings. The project's activities are intimately connected to WMB's strategy, specifically the axis 2 "Coordinate the Brazilian Wikimedia agencies", transforming its intentionality, "to contextualize autonomous Brazilian protagonisms in networks, participatory governance and safe spaces", into actions.
On March 16, 2023, the CALIBRA team met with the WMB professional team in São Paulo to discuss how would the project impact the user group and the wider community and to develop new organization and team management methods.[2] This led to CALIBRA becoming part of the Projects area. The next day, the CALIBRA team met again to define what participants would need to deliver and get feedback from the Communities management.[3]
Second quarter report (Apr-Jun)
Launch of CALIBRA in the Wikiversity in Portuguese
The first phase of the CALIBRA project ended in May with the publication of the training program in the Wikiversity in Portuguese.[4] The material was built based on requests presented by the lusophone community in a survey process that started in 2021 and ended in 2022, with strategic discussions with the Brazilian community to ensure the implementation of the Movement Strategy 2030 considers the particularities of the community. The first phase of the CALIBRA project ended in May with the publication of the training program on the Wikiversity in Portuguese. The material was constructed from requests submitted by the Portuguese-speaking community in a research process that began in 2021 and ended in 2022, and from strategic discussions with the Brazilian community to ensure that the implementation of the Movement Strategy 2030 in the lusophony considered the particularities of the community.
Some requests CALIBRA aims to address are:
- Activities aimed at discussing and overcoming the daily challenges faced by Brazilian Wikimedians;
- Activities that unite theoretical reflection with practical action
- Development of a work network that allows collaboration with people with different experiences and from different places in Brazil
- Training focused on educational initiatives and GLAM-Wiki
- The contextualization of global practices in the Wikimedia Movement to the Brazilian reality
In addition, the initiative also presents itself as a potential space for the formation of an independent network of Wikimedians capable of planning, discussing, implementing and evaluating strategic actions that collaborate with the future and sustainability of Wikimedia as a basic infrastructure of free knowledge in Portuguese. We received a second grant for the implementation of the program - second phase of CALIBRA - with a duration of one year.[5].