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Wikimedia LGBT/2024-09-08

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This online video conference is open to all participants of the LGBT+ User Group, and is intended as an opportunity to discuss shared interests, opportunities, and challenges. The meeting will include User Group administrative and governance updates, community discussion, and open presentations.

  • Date: Sunday 8 September, 2024
    • Meeting time: Sunday September 8 at 17:00–18:30 GMT/UTC+0 (10:00–11:30am PT; 1:00–2:30pm ET). Find your local time here
    • Chai time: 30 minutes following main meeting devoted to informal socializing and impromptu breakout discussions
  • Location: Zoom meeting

The meeting will have an entry lobby, please reach out on the Telegram group if you are left waiting. The Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct will be followed for this meeting.

The meeting will have simultaneous interpretation between English and Spanish. Please let us know (on Telegram or when you register your name below) if you need interpretation into another language and we will try to accommodate this.

Expected attendees

RSVP here!

Agenda

  • Governance updates
    • Updates on the Executive director vacant post that we will hire as a part-time position.
    • Updates on the conversations we've had with Trust & Safety regarding antiqueer rhetoric in some Wikimedia projects.
    • Conversation about the WMF board trustees election; see details on Meta and coverage in Signpost.
  • Group initiatives, events and announcements
    • Queering Wikipedia 2025 discussion
    • Strategies for setting up an LGBT interlanguage collaboration project to identify/translate important queer-related articles.
    • Updates on the initiatives from the Spanish side of the user group
  • Community discussion
    • What have you been editing on Wikimedia platforms?
    • What recent challenges have you faced to participating in Wikimedia projects that you'd like to discuss?
    • How can the User Group help you achieve your goals?

Share + Discuss Ideas and Proposals

(Please add any specific Wikimedia projects/events/activities topics you'd like to share with the group as a lightning talk or open for discussion)

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Chai Time! (After-meeting informal chats)

Tea, Turkish style
A tea cabin in Sreemangal, Bangladesh

Getting to know each other and having fun is an important part of why we exist! Following the meeting, there will be a half hour of unstructured time, where the meeting room will stay open for people to chat and form any proposed breakout rooms.

Notes

  1. Etherpad