Hello, folks.
I'm sorry for the quick self-correction. As implied in yesterday's email,
we pulled this together rather quickly, and rather than write the
announcement from scratch, we based it off of a different meeting. You
don't need to share details about your affiliation, etc., to get the
zoomlink. We do try to ensure that people are eligible (Wikimedians in good
standing), but otherwise we don't need all that detail. I've updated the
Meta page.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=IRC_office_hours%2FOffice_hours_2021-06-29&type=revision&diff=21648546&oldid=21645324>
Sheepish regards,
Maggie
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 7:28 PM Maggie Dennis <mdennis(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello, all.
Apologies for the rather late Friday notice. We had hoped to get details
on this out earlier today, but it has taken rather all day for us to get
the technical details ironed out!
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The Wikimedia Foundation is hosting an office hour featuring Chief
Financial Officer Jaime Villagomez
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/jaime-villagomez/> and General
Counsel Amanda Keton
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/amanda-keton/>, two of the
transition team guiding the Wikimedia Foundation during its executive
transition. It will also feature guests from the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Board of Trustees (BoT), to be determined over the next few days, and
Community Resilience & Sustainability Vice President Maggie Dennis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mdennis_(WMF)>. The main purpose
of the call is to discuss questions related to Wikimedia Foundation
executive transition, including the retention of María Sefidari
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Raystorm> as an advisor to
Movement Strategy and supporting and onboarding the expanding BoT. Come
with your questions or feedback, and let’s talk! You can also send us your
questions in advance.
This office hour will be on June 29 at 15:00 UTC — see
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1624978855 for your local time.
We will officer live interpretation for German, Spanish, French, and
Arabic. To be able to listen to the interpretation, you need to join the
Zoom room (and therefore register via answers(a)wikimedia.org;
<answers(a)wikimedia.org>see below). The Youtube live-stream will be only
in English.
Details
This call will be streamed and available on demand at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQTND98b_Yg
We will be fielding questions from Wikimedians in good standing (that is,
not Foundation or community banned). In order to be as efficient as
possible, we are encouraging people to send questions in advance. Please
send all questions to answers(a)wikimedia.org, by Monday June 28
(midnight, whatever time zone you may be in). We may aggregate similar
questions or truncate them for length. Questions can also be asked live
on Zoom for in-room attendees, in Zoom chat, Telegram and YouTube.
Language support
We will offer automated closed captioning for English, and live
interpretation for German, Spanish, French, and Arabic. This is the
first time we offer such a service for an office hour, and we would like to
experiment with it and see how it works. To be able to listen to the Zoom
interpretation, you need to join the Zoom room (and therefore register, see
below), as live-streaming interpretation channels to Youtube is not
possible.
How to register
For security reasons and specifically to avoid Zoombombing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombombing>, we will be sending the Zoom
link only to people who have registered in advance close to the meeting and
only to Wikimedians in good standing. In order to register, please send an
email to answers(a)wikimedia.org, indicating your name, username,
affiliation if you have any. The title should be “Registration for Office
Hours”. The link will be shared with any Wikimedia in good standing (not
Foundation or community banned) who requests it within the hour before the
meeting.
The meeting will be governed by the Friendly Space Policy
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy>. We are
committed to tackling hard questions bravely in a manner that reflects the
values of our Universal Code of Conduct
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>.
--
Maggie Dennis
She/her/hers
Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Maggie Dennis
She/her/hers
Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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