Wikimedia LGBT+/Governance/2023-07-06

This online video conference is focused on the tasks of the LGBT+ User Group governance, and is intended as an opportunity for organizers to discuss shared opportunities, challenges, and issues.

• Date: 6 July, 2023
• Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm UTC+0 (9:00-10:30am PT/12:00-1:30pm ET)
• Duration: 90 minutes
• GCal: GCal link
• Location: Zoom link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/96639266948 Meeting ID: 96639266948. The meeting will have an entry lobby, please reach out on the Telegram group if you are left waiting.

Wikimedia LGBT+
Communications
Talk page Telegram: @wmlgbt LGBTlists.wikimedia.org Twitter: @WikiLGBT Mastodon: @wmlgbt@tech.lgbt Bluesky: @wmlgbt.org Wiki99: Wiki99/LGBT+
Other links
Wikimedia thematic organizations Wikimedia user groups

The Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct will be followed for this meeting.

Attendees

• OwenBlacker (Talk)
• Hexatekin (talk)

Agenda

• Announcements and housekeeping
  • Upcoming User Group mtg: Wikimedia LGBT/2023-07-12
    • At UG mtg, Dorothy is going to start with a group thinking activity called "Kaleidoscope conversations", where someone starts by asking a question that relates to the work we do in our community, then we go around and each person asks a question based on the previous person's question. There are no answers, only a set of questions generated (10mins).
  • Shall we set recurrent monthly Governance meeting + User Group meeting times? IE 1st Thursday, 3rd Wednesday, etc.
  • Other announcements?
• Safe space cases
  • Transphobia on wikimedia-l, an update
• Governance
  • Board elections
    • Nominations and candidate registration?
    • Set timeline for promotion of elections, comms strategy
      • Related: Dorothy requested MassMessaging rights for on-wiki participation recruitment, event advertisement, which we can use for the elections vote advertising.
    • Wikimedia Medicine system, ex Lane has implemented WikiProjectMed:Election, WikiProjectMed:Election/2023, https://electionbuddy.com/
  • Incorporating the User Group
    • Continue the open discussion, with a focus on moving to conclusions
    • Grant draft: Wikimedia LGBT+/Proposals/Incorporation of Wikimedia LGBT+. Do we want to submit an ask to help us get it organized?
• Annual grant draft work was delayed when Dorothy had to step back for personal reasons, will still get done. Timeline: July 15th, 1st draft to Governance team, iterative after that.
  • Suggested program costs, operational costs
    • Proposal to put program costs for a podcast in the annual grant
    • Proposal to put funds for counseling for leadership and community members in the annual grant

If time permits

• Wikimania
  • Who of us is attending in Singapore?
  • Do we want to arrange one or more fringe events? Virtual, in-person, hybrid, when?
• Queering Wikipedia
  • Grant report in progress Grants:Conference/QW23/QW2023/Report, awaiting survey results
• Communication committee
  • Dorothy still needs to advertise about this in mailing list and Telegram group and create a channel and potentially a separate meeting about this.
  • Access rights, moderation and interaction, status checks, issues
  • Social media strategy: Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, Instagram
  • Discuss practical steps to building a more multilingual comms strategy
    • Language priorities
  • Project management tools - Google workspace, <@wmlgbt.org> Google emails