Hello everyone,

on behalf of the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) coordinators, I would like to invite you to our meeting tomorrow (23 June).

Given the current situation and discussions around the BoT-MCDC liaisons' statement about their intention to recommend that the BoT not ratify the Movement Charter and still move forward with the community vote, together with the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN), we decided to organize the meeting on 23 June (THIS SUNDAY) – meeting link on Meta.

TL;DR – Quick catch-up

Board of Trustees liaisons to MCDC (Nataliia Tymkiv and Lorenzo Losa) announced they will not recommend the BoT to ratify the charter in its current form and will recommend the development of new concrete and time-bound next steps to "evaluate progress". The reason stated is that the "proposed Charter does not address the significant concerns" raised by the Board earlier this year (February and May).

Each of the 3 voting blocks: community, affiliates, and the BoT needs to approve the Charter to ratify it, meaning that each of them has the power to veto the Charter if they vote against it.

Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meeting on 23 June

There are two meeting times to cater to two major time zone blocks:

• 03:00 UTC, 2024-06-23 (Asia-Pacific friendly time) – Check your timezone
• 16:00 UTC, 2024-06-23 (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time) – Check your timezone

The agenda is:

1. Overview of how we got to where we are now, a short history of Movement Charter ratification
2. Personal remarks and comments about the situation
3. Discussion on the Wikimedia Foundation statement on the Movement Charter
1. WMF representatives are invited from this point onwards
2. Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board liaisons reflections on final Movement charter draft
4. Next steps
   

For the signup and meeting link, go to the SWAN page at Meta-wiki:

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network/2024_06