First Community Affairs Committee office hour on May 13 - Wikimedia-l

29 Apr 2021

Hello, everyone.

TLDR:

The Board of Trustees’ Community Affairs Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Committee>(CAC)
is hosting itsfirst office houron May 13, 2021 at 19:00 UTC(check
for your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1620928828>)!

Now in more details:

What are we announcing?

The CAC is a new Board of Trustees
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees>committee
established to assess, explore and address current and future
community-related efforts. The Committee's Charter
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Affairs_Committee_Charter>lists
its full responsibilities, with the first 3 being a priority for
this coming year.

As part of our commitment to foster better communications with the
Wikimedia Movement Community, and based on feedback received from
community members requesting more availability from the Board of
Trustees, the CAC will behosting its first Office hours.

When & Where?

The Office hours will be held on May 13 2021, at 19:00 UTC(check for
your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1620928828>) via
Zoom. At least 3 Trustees, as well as relevant WMF staff will be in
attendance. The session will be streamed live and recorded, so those
who cannot participate live will be able to watch later.

How will it work?

The meeting will last for 60 minutes and an additional 30 minutes of
an “open room”. The first 60 minutes will be divided into 45 minutes
of structured Q & A (based on either updates from the CAC and
questions sent by the community in advance). The final 15 minutes
will be in the “ask us anything” format, with live participation. We
will be monitoring live YouTube, Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/553393111375191>and the Wikimedia
General Chat Telegram group <https://t.me/WikimediaGeneral>and the
talk page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Committee/2021-05-13_Office_Hour>.
The structure is meant to enable the CAC to not only update the
community on current matters the Board is working on, but also hear
directly from the community, which will help inform the Committee’s
future work.

Setting the agenda with your Questions

In order to be as efficient as possible, and since we anticipate
that some questions will require answers from WMF Staff, we are
encouraging community members to send questions in advance. Please
send all questions to askcac@wikimedia.org
<mailto:askcac@wikimedia.org>, by Friday, May 7th(midnight, whatever
time zone you may be in). The office hour agenda will be based on
the main topics related to the questions received. We will share
this agenda on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Committee/2021-05-13_Office_Hour>on
May 12, including final names of Trustees in attendance.

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. In order to register, please send an email to
askcac@wikimedia.org <mailto:askcac@wikimedia.org>, indicating your
name, username, affiliation if you have any. The title should be:
“Registration for the May 13th CAC Office Hours”.

Please note --

  *

    This is the first time that the Board is attempting something of
    the sort. This is an experiment. We’ll see how it goes - how
    many people are interested in attending, timing, translation
    needs etc --  and make decisions about future meetings / changes
    to format accordingly.

  *

    The session will be moderated based on the Universal Code of
    Conduct
    <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>

  *

    Universally blocked users will not be allowed in the room, but
    can still participate by watching live and sending questions in
    real-time.

Please help us spread the word by sharing this message with your
local / online communities.

Hoping to see as many of you as possible,

Shani Evenstein Sigalov

Chair, Community Affairs Committee

Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation.

Shani Evenstein Sigalov
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>

Board of Trustees

Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>