Following the process described in the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Collaboration team has selected five candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee and five candidates to become auxiliary members.
Here you have their names in alphabetical order. For details about each candidate, please check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee_members
Committee member candidates:
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Amir Sarabadani (Ladsgroup) -
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee (Frimelle) -
Nuria Ruiz (NRuiz-WMF) -
Sébastien Santoro (Dereckson) -
Tony Thomas (01tonythomas)
Auxiliary member candidates:
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Ariel Glenn (ArielGlenn) -
Caroline Becker (Léna) -
Florian Schmidt (Florianschmidtwelzow) -
Huji -
Matanya
This list of candidates is subject to a community review period of two weeks starting today. If no major objections are presented about any candidate, they will be appointed in six weeks.
You can provide feedback on these candidates, via private email to techconductcandidates@wikimedia.org. This feedback will be received by the Community Health https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_health group handling this process, and will be treated with confidentiality.
We want to thank all the people who has considered the possibility to support the Code of Conduct with their participation in this Committee. 77 persons have been contacted during the selection process, counting self-nominations and recommendations. From these, 21 made it to a short list of candidates confirmed and (according to our estimation) a potential good fit for the Committee. Selecting the five candidates for the Committee has been hard, as we have tried to form a diverse group that could work together effectively in the consolidation of the Code of Conduct. Selecting the five auxiliary members has been even harder, and we know that we have left out candidates who could have contributed just as much. Being the first people assuming these roles, we have tended a bit towards more technical profiles with good knowledge of our technical spaces. We believe that future renewals will offer better chances to other profiles (not so technical and/or not so Wikimedia veteran), adding a higher diversity and variety of perspectives to the mix.
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
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