WALRUS/May 2019

WALRUS is a monthly online meeting for Wikimedia community organizers in the United States to discuss and collaborate on events and outreach of national interest.

Join the pan-USA Wikimedia local activists' chat on Monday May 13 2019 at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern.

Zoom videoconference information

Getting set up with Zoom

• We will use a meeting tool called Zoom instead of Google Hangouts. Please sign up for an account on www.zoom.us and then take a look at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-and-Mac
• Note that Zoom provides a telephone interface and that the Zoom software applications are proprietary. Use the telephone interface if you want more privacy and freedom.

Chair & secretary for this month

• Meeting host for Zoom: Pharos
• Meeting chair: Jackiekoerner
• Meeting secretary for minutes: TBD

Agenda

• Introductions
• Rapid grants for May (can submit up to May 15)
• Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019 - voting period May 8-31
  • Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/Eligible entities
• WikiConference North America 2019
• Wikidata update(s)
• Wiki Loves Pride/2019 (meta) Wiki Loves Pride/2019 (enwp) in June
  • "Wikimedian at Large concept - Wikimedia UK proposes to request ~$150k from WMF to hire global administrative support for LGBT+ projects
  • no published documentation of this yet, but discussed at Wikimedia LGBT User Group May 2019
• Next call: Monday June 10
• Add your agenda items!

Notes

• Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Walrus_rolling_notes