Dear fellows in strategy conversations,

@Yair Rand - Thank you for taking the initiative and working with the community to facilitate conversations related to movement strategy! This is truly appreciated.

I have received some questions regarding the global governance topics off list, so I would like to follow-up here to provide some clarity:

- Global governance, especially recommendation "Ensure Equity in Decision-making" [1] is one of the key topics for movement strategy with a wide community/affiliate interest and support. - It is great to see that there is energy to discuss the path forward with your groups and peers. At the same time this is a conversation where we have to align on the global level. I see that conversations on the community level can really help us to prepare for creating this alignment and have an informed discussion on the global level. - When working on the design of the transition conversations with the Design Group [2], a notion of focused / thematic events emerged. While we have moved forward with organizing region or language specific events, topic centered discussions on the global level will only happen following the bigger global events scheduled November 21&22 and December 5&6. The reason for this is that we need to ensure sufficient level of general awareness regarding the recommendations and initiatives as well as have a general understanding of priorities before it makes sense to dive into more specific discussions (e.g. Interim Global Council, Movement Charter, and Global Council). - We will work with the communities and organizations who are having these discussions now to make the documentation and results of the discussions available on the initiative discussion space on meta [3]. This information will then be an input for the conversations of a more global nature. Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts in that space! - *We plan to have facilitated global online discussions around the movement governance topics in january 2021*, especially about setting up the Interim Global Council [4], which is the first logical step for advancing.

I am available for any further clarifications or questions here or off-list - do not hesitate to reach out!

Have a great continuation to your week and month of November! Kaarel

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transiti... [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transiti... [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:31 AM Yair Rand yyairrand@gmail.com wrote:

Hi everyone.

The next Wikimedia Café online video meeting will occur on Sunday 15 November 2020 at 7:00 PM UTC / 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST / Monday 12:30 AM IST. The focus will be on the Global Council which the Wikimedia Movement Strategy plan is establishing.

Please see the page on Meta < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9%3E for more information. If there are any problems with connecting to the meeting or if you have any questions or comments then please write on the Meta talk page.

Hope to see you there. :)

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