Wikimedia LGBT+/Governance/2024-05-19
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This online video conference is focused on the tasks of governance and the LGBT+ User Group. The meeting is intended as an opportunity for core organizers to discuss shared opportunities, challenges, and ideas.
- Date: 19 May 2024
- Time: 1400–1500 UTC+0 (7:00 – 8:00am PT / 10:00 – 11:00pm ET)
- Duration: 60 minutes
The Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct will be followed for this meeting.
Attendees
[edit]- Owen Blacker
- Lane Rasberry (non-voting attendee)
- Freddy Veloz
- Paperboy Prince
- Ayokanmi Oyeyemi
Anonymous members might also have been present
Agenda and notes
[edit]Core funding grant update
[edit]- For info: Owen met with Stéphane at Kiwix; we have about $2,842 left of previous unrestricted funds
- Action needed: Someone needs to be able to approve Owen's £450 invoice for Google and Zoom fees
- Resolved: Freddy has approved this
- For info: Our grant proposal: General Support Fund: Sustaining Wikimedia LGBT+
- For info: New metrics: Feedback from the Regional Committee re: your 2024 proposal
- For info: End of discussion timespan is tmrw (Mon 20 May)
- we may get additional questions from the grant review committee, in which case we should reply quickly
- For info: Funding decisions will be announced in 2 weeks (Fri 31 May)
- Recommendations needed: Staffing an Exec director and Membership coordinator
- we have US$50k for director and $12k for coordinator
- we will have an open call for both of these
- again - what kind of person could we hire for director?
- ideally
- English and Spanish speaking
- fluent in LGBT+ community culture
- familiarity with the Wikimedia / Open Knowledge Movement
- professional experience
- good traits
- good charity experience
- fundraising experience
- ideally
- Dorothy prepared the start of a job spec
- Action: Owen will circulate
- Can we use [greenhouse.com Greenhouse] for hiring? It seems to work well for the Foundation
- For discussion: Potential project: EuroPride Thessaloniki: Rapid Grant proposal: WikiLovesEuroPride2024 (ID: 22458581); decision not needed until grant lands
Electing a board chair
[edit]- For info: We should do this in next month's meeting, or by vote immediately thereafter
- we currently do not have a chair
- Owen would like to volunteer to chair
- This should not be an anonymous Board member
- Are other candidates interested?
Berlin Summit playback
[edit]- Lane, Jeffery, Owen, and Z met in Berlin at the Wikimedia Summit 2024
- For info: Movement Charter discussions
- outcomes of the Summit on Meta at Wikimedia Summit 2024
- Question: What is the position of Wikimedia LGBT+ in LGBT+ issues in the wiki movement?
- Answer: Other wiki organizations are aware of Wikimedia LGBT+ but we are not currently offering services which could be the base of collaboration (clarification needed)
- For info: Discussions with other diversity affiliates
- Wikimedia LGBT+ supported the nomination of a Wikimedian of the Year who lives in Gaza
- For info: Owen had discussions with Dumisami Ndubane about Wikimania 2025
- Mehrdad has left the Wikimedia Foundation (for a dream job elsewhere)
- Dumisami is a WMF point of contact for us to continue to negotiate safety preparation at Wikimania
- There are conversations that can continue but we lose time that we invested in this person (clarification needed)
- There are Wikimania events planned in places with serious LGBT+ safety concerns that we can discuss how to help mitigate
Human Rights discussions
[edit]- For info: Our conversations with the WMF Human Rights Team need re-starting
- There are some of us who have been meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation human rights team
- It seems helpful that we should meet them again
- Dorothy used to meet them
- Question: What would this entail?
- Stakeholder management and programme management — partly helping the Foundation do better here for queer wikimedians
- Decision needed: Someone needs to own this process, at least until we hire an ED
- Resolved: Lane is happy to stay on top of this for now
- Example: ruwiki has agreed to redact usernames of editors contributing to the article on the current war in Ukraine; see the revision history of 'Russian invasion of Ukraine' on ruwiki
Spanish Wikipedia celebrates 23 year anniversary
[edit]- Miguel was one of the Wikipedians highlighted and Wikiproyecto:LGBT was highlighted as a best project.
- Since the board meeting there has been blogposts from Wikimedia Spain and on Diff
WMF Board elections
[edit]- For info: 4 Community/Affiliate Board seats up for election (Dariusz Jemielniak, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Victoria Doronina, Lorenzo Losa)
- For info: Candidate applications are open 8–29 May.
- [Confidential note about some potential candidates]
- For info: Candidate shortlisting by affiliates (during June; see Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024 § Shortlisting process
- For info: Actual voting will be across 2 week in late August or early September
- For info: WMF Board will formally approve trustees-elect in their December board meeting
- Decision needed: Anyone want to be our rep for candidate shortlisting?
Scheduling our next call
[edit]- For info: Early in June, so we can discuss the yay/nay on our funding proposal
- Owen will send round a Doodle poll
AOB
[edit]- None