Hello everyone,

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, I decided to organize the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meeting on 23 June (THIS SUNDAY) – meeting link on Meta.

TL;DR – Quick catch-up

Board of Trustees liaisons to MCDC (Natalia 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.

The two times are:

• 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:

• Update on the Movement Charter process
• Discussion on the Wikimedia Foundation statement on the Movement Charter
  • Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board liaisons reflections on final Movement charter draft

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