Wikimedia LGBT/2024-07-07

Wikimedia LGBT+
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This online video conference is open to all participants of the LGBT+ User Group, and is intended as an opportunity to discuss shared interests, opportunities, and challenges. The meeting will include User Group administrative and governance updates, community discussion, and open presentations.

• Date: Sunday 7 July, 2024
  • Meeting time: Sunday July 7 at 17:00–18:00 GMT/UTC+0 (10:00–11:00am PT; 1:00–2:00pm ET). Find your local time here
  • Chai time: 30 minutes following main meeting devoted to informal socializing and impromptu breakout discussions
• Location: Zoom meeting

The meeting will have an entry lobby, please reach out on the Telegram group if you are left waiting. The Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct will be followed for this meeting.

Expected attendees

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Agenda

• Events and announcements
  • Wiki Loves Pride: results of the activities in English and Spanish community
    • Metrics, media coverage, human impact, prizes
  • Wikimania 2024 in Poland:
    • LGBT+ user group activities during first week of august (gatherings, talks during the event, communications plan)
  • Anyone have other events to promote/announce?
• Governance updates
  • Funding approval: Wikimedia Community Fund: Sustaining Wikimedia LGBT+
    • Implications, internal organizational structure of the LGBT+ user group, projects
  • Wikimania 2025 Core Organizing Team (COT)
    • Discussion about LGBT+ community participation during Wikimania 2025, which will be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Update on French Wikipedia situation
  • Comments on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
  • Comments on the Movement Charter
• Community discussion
  • What have you been editing on Wikimedia platforms?
  • What recent challenges have you faced to participating in Wikimedia projects that you'd like to discuss?
  • How can the User Group help you achieve your goals?

Share + Discuss Ideas and Proposals

(Please add any specific Wikimedia projects/events/activities topics you'd like to share with the group as a lightning talk or open for discussion)

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Chai Time! (After-meeting informal chats)

Tea, Turkish style

A tea cabin in Sreemangal, Bangladesh

Getting to know each other and having fun is an important part of why we exist! Following the meeting, there will be a half hour of unstructured time, where the meeting room will stay open for people to chat and form any proposed breakout rooms.