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_o...
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
Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Selection_process_for_Co...
The call for CoC Committee candidates was announced one week ago. Here goes a status update.
We https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_health have received some self-nominations and some recommendations, and we have shared next steps with all the candidates involved. We have also received some questions, which we are documenting at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/FAQ#Committee
We are starting our own search for additional candidates to be invited. Our current objective is to complete a list of potential candidates. Once we have a good list, we will start the selection process.
Diversity is the key factor in the Committee that we envision. One way to search for diverse candidates is to look into different areas in our technical community, and try to look well in each of these areas (as opposed to relying on generic lists only, like code review contributors, participants in hackathons, and so on). The list of areas we have so far (which welcomes suggestions) is:
* Bots * CoC Talk page * Code contributors / reviewers * Gadgets * GSoC / Outreachy / GCi * MediaWiki Stakeholders * Researchers * Tech ambassadors / Bug reporters * Templates / Lua modules * Tools * Translators * Wikidata * Wikimedia Foundation
The important points about the selection process are:
* We will have a conversation with each candidate selected before the announcement; we will not announce any candidate before their confirmation and review. * Only the candidates selected will be announced publicly; the full list of candidates will remain private.
Questions or feedback? Please comment here or privately at techconductcandidates AT wikimedia.org.
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.
Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct# Selection_process_for_CoC_Committee_candidates
Status update: 37 people have been contacted so far, from which 32 are currently potential candidates. 6 people are self-nominated, 18 have been recommended, and 13 have been invited by us. We have started to discuss selection criteria. With our focus on diversity in mind, we are trying to cover fairly well aspects like gender, age, location, languages, affiliation, developer experience, Wikimedia experience, and areas of specialization.
We are still reaching out to new candidates and we welcome more self-nominations and recommendations. Instructions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Call_for_candidates_to_f...
Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Selection_process_for_Co...
Status update: 76 people have been contacted, from which 17 are currently potential candidates. We are still accepting self-nominations and recommendations until the end of Monday, April 3rd. We consider our own outreach completed, and we have started to evaluate potential candidates.
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