Wikimedia European Affiliates Cooperation/European Regional Event November 2020

In May 2020, the Movement Strategy recommendations were published. Now it’s time to figure out how to implement them. Wikimedia affiliates and communities are in the process of selecting their top priorities for implementation in 2021. Prioritization is the start of the transition to implementation. In addition to the ongoing local community events and conversations, a Regional European Affiliates Transition Event will take place virtually on 14 November 2020, from 11:30-15:30 UTC. Participation is limited to 2 representatives from each Affiliate that is based in or mainly operates within Europe.

Focus of the event is preparing the Affiliates from Europe for the upcoming global strategy events, discussing which needs are most prevalent within Europe, and how we as Europeans can contribute to the global implementation.

The event will be organised and hosted by Wikimedia Österreich, Wikimedia Deutschland, and Wikimedia Nederland. We are currently preparing the agenda and structure of the meeting and will share details on how to participate soon. The meeting will be held in English.

Agenda

All times are in UTC for easier use for everyone:

11:30 Meeting room opens; arrive, virtual coffee
12:00 Welcome and Intro
12:15 Onboarding and preparation for global events
12:50 Priorities: Recommendations
13:30 Break
14:00 Priorities: Initiatives
14:45 Presentation of discussion results
15:00 Q&A with WMF staff
15:20 Wrap up, closing, socializing
16:00 Meeting room closes

Participants

Participation is limited to 2 representatives from each Affiliate that is based in or mainly operates within Europe.

Access to the meeting is restricted to the representatives who signed up here by 13 November, to create a well-balanced group of participants which covers the variety of affiliates in Europe. An invite to the zoom meeting has been sent to participants.

Wikimedia UG Georgia – Mehman Ibragimov
Wikimédia France - Pierre-Yves Beaudouin and Rémy Gerbet WMFr
Wikimedia Russia - Stanislav Kozlovskiy and Vladimir Medeyko
Wikimedia Polska – Michał Buczyński
Amical Wikimedia – Marc Miquel and Francesc Fort
GLAM Macedonia - Žana Štrkovska
Wikimedia Belgium - Geert Van Pamel (WMBE)
Wikimedia Austria - Claudia.Garad and Philip Kopetzky
WikiDonne User Group – Camelia Boban
Wikimedia Deutschland – Lukas Mezger and Alice Wiegand
Wikiesfera – PatriHorrillo
Wikimedia Community Malta – Toni Sant
Wikimedia Serbia - Miroslav Loci
Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group - Greta
Wikimedia Portugal - DarwIn and GoEThe
Wikimedia Nederland - Jan-Bart de Vreede and Sandra Rientjes
Wikimedia CH - Rama
Wikimedia Ukraine - Mykola Kozlenko
Wikimedia_LGBT+ - Z. Blace

Reading material and preparation

Summary

GoogleDoc - if you have clarifying questions, the comment function is activated :-)

Friendly space policy

Note that the Wikimedia friendly space policy is applied, and that we will have a friendly space officer in the meeting to ensure that the policy is adhered to.