Hello tech ambassadors,

Maybe you or someone in your wiki communities is interested in this call for candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee for Wikimedia technical spaces. We want to reach out to a wide variety of profiles and that includes e.g. bug reporters and other technical volunteers interested in bots, gadgets, templates, MediaWiki...

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Dear Wikimedia technical community members,

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct

The review of the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces has been completed and now it is time to bootstrap its first committee. The Technical Collaboration team is looking for five candidates to form the Committee plus five additional auxiliary members. One of them could be you or someone you know!

You can propose yourself as a candidate and you can recommend others *privately* at techconductcandidates AT wikimedia DOT org

We want to form a very diverse list of candidates reflecting the variety of people, activities, and spaces in the Wikimedia technical community. We are also open to other candidates with experience in the field. Diversity in the Committee is also a way to promote fairness and independence in their decisions. This means that no matter who you are, where you come from, what you work on, or for how long, you are a potential good member of this Committee.

The main requirements to join the Committee are a will to foster an open and welcoming community and a commitment to making participation in Wikimedia technical projects a respectful and harassment-free experience for everyone. The committee will handle reports of unacceptable behavior, will analyze the cases, and will resolve on them according to the Code of Conduct. The Committee will also handle proposals to amend the Code of Conduct for the purpose of increasing its efficiency. The term of this first Committee will be one year.

Once we have a list of 5 + 5 candidates, we will announce it here for review. You can learn more about the Committee and its selection process at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee and you can ask questions in the related Talk page (preferred) or here.

You can also track the progress of this bootstrapping process at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct# Bootstrapping_the_Code_of_Conduct_Committee

PS: We have many technical spaces and reaching to all people potentially interested is hard! Please help spreading this call.

-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil