Dear All,

Small reminder that we will meet today here https://meet.google.com/yum-qabj-szx at 4pm Warsaw/Berlin time to present/ finalize working groups.

Also if you have any recommendations of people, especially from the Target Inclusion Countries that we could support (page 2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nqb-5WDQYSpvBf1620BuWHQ0746fGdRK48Q2mGwAUM/edit), would be great. I need an email to invite and they have to just write a few sentences how the action could help them and vice versa.

Thank you, Brett, Matt, Iolanda, et al.,

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 4:55 PM Brett Buttliere b.buttliere@uw.edu.pl wrote:

Dear All,

The COST Action application https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nqb-5WDQYSpvBf1620BuWHQ0746fGdRK48Q2mGwAUM/edit is moving along well in our opinion, thank you for all of your involvements and happy to have met so many of you at Wikimania.

The grant is due October 26th, and given that it is about 2 months away, we want to get feedback on the grant as it is, and to talk about how you can join and support the Action, also in terms of creating the ECOST profile so you can participate formally.

To do this, we will meet this Friday, August 30th, at 4pm, Warsaw Time, at this Google Meet https://meet.google.com/yum-qabj-szx.

At this stage we are formulating working groups (~p.20 here https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nqb-5WDQYSpvBf1620BuWHQ0746fGdRK48Q2mGwAUM/edit) and trying to identify the working group leaders. If you think you would like to be a working group leader or if you have a suggestion for a working group (Especially if you are in a target country/ early career/ female) please come or at least send an email with some paragraphs of the general idea/ how you might like to be involved. There are some examples of working group descriptions on page 20-22.

The working groups are defined right now approximately as:

Measuring and Demonstrating the Impact of Wikimedia for Open Knowledge.

Identifying and sharing best practices for research using the wikimedia ecosystem.

Development of materials to make it easier to contribute to Wikimedia.

Training trainers and educators in using the Wikimedia ecosystem in the classroom.

Establishing TOPS style guidelines for organizations to implement and sign onto.

Integrating the Wikimedia ecosystem with EOSC, presenting solutions e.g., WikiData.

Building disciplinary organizations to contribute/ review science content in their area.

Arming Universities and GLAMs with tools to make their content available i.e., open.

The 4 year plan is to year 1, develop materials at Wikimania Paris, Year 2 go together to an EOSC/ EU conference to present materials and bring them on board, Year 3, go in groups to present at disciplinary conferences, and Year 4 come back all together with a big conference in one of the inclusiveness nations.

*We are looking for *group leaders, participants, as well as people who might be interested in the more leadership roles e.g., Grant Awarding Coordinator, Science Communication Coordinator, and general members of the Action Management Committee. Especially if you know some administration who has handled such a project before and could consult with us, it would be great.

Hopefully, see you Friday at this link https://meet.google.com/yum-qabj-szx!

Brett Buttliere, Matt Vetter, Iolanda Pensa, et al.

University of Warsaw