[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
To add to the conversation, I'm wondering several things. 1. Was there actually an outreach strategy to recruit for this type of technologist profile? Was it communicated to the movement? We could have helped. 2. Why the decision on someone whose only relevant background as technologist is on US corporate technology companies? As several people have pointed out, Luis doesn't seem to have any relevant experience in enterprises that contribute to the larger social good; some of them are significantly controversial (Rappi, Loft); and all of them seem to be very much US-based. 3. Why a guy? It would have been significantly better to bring a woman into this position. If the problem is retention, I actually think that a woman would have been a way better fit to understand what's failing in terms of business culture that's creating challenges to make people stay. There are several other things that could be said about this decision but I think others have already said them -- like the whole NFT & blockchain thing and the "fintech for young people", which is already a huge, huge, huge red flag. cheers, scann ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/YXUWK7RHPIYGNC3UH36NFUZ3TEC5JTF6/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Reflections about Visa situation for Wikimedians
Thanks Anass for bringing this up! It's a very frustrating situation for community members to deal with visas. It's also worth noting that in certain cases there are places that request a visa from certain countries, but do not have an Embassy in the country they are requesting the visa from -- meaning that a community member has to travel to another destination (sometimes significantly far away!) in order to get paper processed. That takes money and time. To me, the big elephant in the room is the need to re-imagine how we can do better integration of in person / remote events. The challenge here is that in the upcoming future it won't make sense from a carbon budget & climate perspective to fly people around the world, and we need to start designing more real decentralized events, not only to expect that we'll be able to plug a video screen somewhere and have in-person meetings while people watch from the outside (which doesn't lead to real participation / interaction). Also, flights have gone up significantly -- plane tickets are double the amount that they were before the pandemic; this also will represent a challenge for conference organizers, because they will be able to fly even less people with the money allocated for the event. And also worth noting that from anyone outside of the US / Europe, flying to Europe takes *a lot of time*. How we are asking community members and volunteers to use their time it's a big part of the conversation about equity. Sorry to hear that the visa issue has prevented a community member to bring their perspective fully into the table. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/X2ZGHJMQ4HZ3LEJTQFZHVDJYX2YO6A7D/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Free Licenses Outreach Materials – Wikimedia Ukraine needs advice
Hi Pavlo! I hope you're doing ok given the circumstances. To the list that Fiona has shared, I'd add the Open GLAM survey by Douglas McCarthy & Andrea Wallace too: https://medium.com/open-glam/survey/home That gives a sense of how many GLAMs have adopted open access policies. Also, I'd suggest you get in touch with Iolanda Pensa from the Wikimedia Italy chapter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Italia. They took the CC GLAM Certificate course and their whole team produced a ton of wonderful visual materials (slides & infographics) that explain the benefits of open access for GLAM institutions in a very straightforward way. Most of them are uploaded here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_GLAM_Certificate cheers, scann ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/7BQTEOA3CKFDWASPACN5WTNYCBUSGW6U/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
