Cascadia Wikimedians/June 2024 general members meeting

Annual meeting — Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 1pm PDT

• In person: Seattle Public Library University Branch, 5009 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA
• Online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86413065184?pwd=qbSb2Tztw4q4MoXJBTRGXMQ8qaviEA.1

Meeting ID: 864 1306 5184

Passcode: 403709

The room will be open for set up at 12:30, and we will open the Zoom call as soon as we are set up. There will be a waiting room for the Zoom call.

Here is a link to our current by-laws: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ri1fKCyOj9P2z-VA5wPz8ufF19yTEvTH3LfU8oIcqO0

Please also see:

• The General friendly space policy for Wikimedia events
• The Wikimedia Foundation Universal Code of Conduct
• Friendly space expectations

Agenda

Introductions

Because of a recent ransomware attack, the Seattle Public Libraries lack WiFi service. Because of this, we ask that Zoom attendees keep their video off and audio muted except when talking to the meeting. We will do a round of introductions so that we can get to see and hear everybody.

Activities reports and questions

There are four activity reports since 2020:

• 2020 report
• 2021 report
• 2022 report
• 2023 report

Please read through the reports and please ask any questions at the meeting. Questions can also address other Cascadia Wikimedian activities not covered by the reports.

Election of Board of Directors

Since the terms of all board members expired during the course of the pandemic, we need to elect new board members. We need a minimum of four (4) and not more than nine (9) directors.

After the members elect the Board of Directors, the board will choose its officers at a later time.

Those who wish to stand for election to the Board of Directors

Members may also self-nominate, or nominate another member present during the meeting.

• Peaceray (talk) 04:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
• Jmabel (talk) 13:49, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
• Your name – list here

Other business

• Your agenda item – list here
• Wikimedia Summit 2024
  • Joe's report on the Wikimedia Summit
  • The proposed Global Movement Charter
• WikiConference North America in Cascadia, 2026 or later, added by Peaceray

  After the 2023 conference in Toronto, WCNA seems to be developing a queue approach. Locations in the queue are currently Indianapolis in (October 2024) and NYC in Fall 2025. I would like to see a consideration of either Seattle or Tacoma for 2026. Peaceray (talk) 04:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

• Discussion on WIKIPEDIA AI and the future of WIKI BOTS for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_bots it would be nice to talk over how AAlertBot works! We really should discuss how AI will change WIKIPEDIA and various WikiProjects (and how AI will influence collaborative editing groups).

Announcements

• WikiConference North America 2024, Indianapolis — 3-6 October 2024
• fairly interesting list of all the submissions to WIKI NORTH AMERICA https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2024/Program/Submissions
• Wiknics: forthcoming for Seattle; are other locations, such as Portland, interested?

Results

• Asher Martin (Moscow, Idaho), Oscar Costero (Spokane), Geoff Burling (Portland), Joe Mabel (Seattle), and Ray Leonard (Seattle) attended by Zoom or in person. Richard Knipel (NYC) joined at the end of the meeting but did not seem to have a stable enough connection to participate.
• There were no objections to the four annual activity reports since 2020.
• Due to COVID the group has not been as active as in the past, but compared to other groups in proportion of its members Cascadia is as active as any other group
• The meeting elected Jmabel, llywrch, and Peaceray to the board.