[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tuesday Foundation office hour

[Maggie Dennis]

The notes are now published, including answers to a few questions we didn't
get to in the meeting. You can find them here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2021-06-29

Thank you to all who participated, from volunteers who attended to staff
who put on some impressive speed pulling this together so quickly. (It
usually takes much longer.)

Best,
Maggie

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:29 AM Cornelius Kibelka <
ckibelka-...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> The office hour starts in about 30 min, here on Youtube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQTND98b_Yg_channel=WikimediaFoundation
>
> Cheers
> Cornelius
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 9:44 AM Maggie Dennis 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, folks.
>>
>> I'm sorry for the quick self-correction. As implied in yesterday's email,
>> we pulled this together rather quickly, and rather than write the
>> announcement from scratch, we based it off of a different meeting. You
>> don't need to share details about your affiliation, etc., to get the
>> zoomlink. We do try to ensure that people are eligible (Wikimedians in good
>> standing), but otherwise we don't need all that detail. I've updated the
>> Meta page.
>> 
>>
>> Sheepish regards,
>> Maggie
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 7:28 PM Maggie Dennis 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, all.
>>>
>>> Apologies for the rather late Friday notice. We had hoped to get details
>>> on this out earlier today, but it has taken rather all day for us to get
>>> the technical details ironed out!
>>>
>>> ***
>>>
>>> The Wikimedia Foundation is hosting an office hour featuring Chief
>>> Financial Officer Jaime Villagomez
>>>  and General
>>> Counsel Amanda Keton
>>> , two of the
>>> transition team guiding the Wikimedia Foundation during its executive
>>> transition. It will also feature guests from the Wikimedia Foundation’s
>>> Board of Trustees (BoT), to be determined over the next few days, and
>>> Community Resilience & Sustainability Vice President Maggie Dennis
>>> . The main purpose
>>> of the call is to discuss questions related to Wikimedia Foundation
>>> executive transition, including the retention of María Sefidari
>>>  as an advisor to
>>> Movement Strategy and supporting and onboarding the expanding BoT. Come
>>> with your questions or feedback, and let’s talk! You can also send us your
>>> questions in advance.
>>>
>>> This office hour will be on June 29 at 15:00 UTC — see
>>> https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1624978855 for your local time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We will officer live interpretation for German, Spanish, French, and
>>> Arabic. To be able to listen to the interpretation, you need to join
>>> the Zoom room (and therefore register via answ...@wikimedia.org;
>>> see below). The Youtube live-stream will be only
>>> in English.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Details
>>>
>>> This call will be streamed and available on demand at
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQTND98b_Yg
>>>
>>>
>>> We will be fielding questions from Wikimedians in good standing (that
>>> is, not Foundation or community banned). In order to be as efficient as
>>> possible, we are encouraging people to send questions in advance.
>>> Please send all questions to answ...@wikimedia.org, by Monday June 28
>>> (midnight, whatever time zone you may be in). We may aggregate similar
>>> questions or truncate them for length. Questions can also be asked live
>>> on Zoom for in-room attendees, in Zoom chat, Telegram and YouTube.
>>>
>>>
>>> Language support
>>>
>>> We will offer automated closed captioning for English, and live
>>> interpretation for German, Spanish, French, and Arabic. This is the
>>> first time we offer such a service for an office hour, and we would like to
>>> experiment with it and see how it works. To be able to listen to the Zoom
>>> interpretation, you need to join the Zoom room (and therefore register, see
>>> below), as live-streaming interpretation channels to Youtube is not
>>> possible.
>>>
>>> How to register
>>>
>>> For security reasons and specifically to avoid Zoombombing
>>> , we will be sending the
>>> Zoom link only to people who have registered in advance close to the
>>> meeting and only to Wikimedians in good standing. In order to register,
>>> please send an email to answ...@wikimedia.org, indicating your name,
>>> username, affiliation if you have any. The title should be “Registration
>>> for Office Hours”. The link will be shared with any Wikimedia in good
>>> standing (not Foundation or community banned) who requests it  within the
>>> hour before the meeting.
>>>
>>> The meeting will be governed by the Friendly Space Policy
>>> 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

[mail]

Dear Amanda,

Thank you for this quick and holistic response. I am sure that settles the 
matter and helps the movement to avoid future misunderstandings like these.

The real victim here is Maria, of course. She has invested a tremendous amount 
of time, energy and knowledge into steering the WMF Board for many, many years. 
She has contributed so much to our movement as a volunteer - she does not 
deserve this stain on her reputation. And I sincerely hope that people within 
the WMF have apologized to Maria for bringing her into this impossible 
situation.

Cheers,

Pavel
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