Board Meeting

Date (UTC):	11 February 2021 03:30:00 - 11 February 2021 04:30:00
Attendees:	Bernhard Krabina, Bryan Hildebrand, Cindy Cicalese, Eric-Jan, Lex Sulzer, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser

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Agenda

1. Code of Conduct
2. MWStake Bylaw requirements (Charter & Annual Meeting)
3. Membership & Corporate sponsorship
4. MW Releases

Notes

The meeting voice transcription is available on the talk page.

1. Code of Conduct
   • Cindy Brief update on Code of Conduct progress
2. MWStake Bylaw requirements (Charter & Annual Meeting)
   • Bryan From our articles of incorporation (what we used to become a non-profit), our stated purpose is:
     • "To contribute to the development of MediaWiki by fostering communication and coordination of MediaWiki developers, operators, and users, and other MediaWiki improvement efforts."
   • A charter does the following:
     1. Identifies the purpose of the organization (see articles of incorporation above)
     2. Identifies the board of directors of the organization
     3. Identifies the the business location
   • Markus We should remove those parts above (& Mission/Vision/Goals) from the bylaws and add them to a new page called Charter
     • Also create a redirect from "Articles of Incorporation" to "Charter"
   • Markus I propose the following for the Annual meeting:
     • Have an Annual meeting in March
     • Current Board is "transitionary"
     • This year is the transitional year
     • Moving forward, next year we can begin normal voting for Board Members
3. Membership & Corporate sponsorship
   • Eric-Jan We have the plan in place, just need CC processing and we can begin
   • Mark The CC should be working, we just need some test cases to make sure
   • Bernhard Is it possible to donate?
     • Mark It's possible technically, we just need to implement it
   • Bryan Can we start showing the list of members & corporate sponsors on MWStake.org?
     • Mark Maybe manual at first, but automate it in the future
     • Bryan If I can get a list, I can create the page now
4. MW Releases
   • Cindy Previously this was done by Mark & Markus
     • Now internal WMF people that do it now
     • WMDE has a strategy plan of supporting 3rd party use of Wikibase. Wikibase is tied to releases of MW
     • I feel MWStake should take over MW releases
     • Some people at the WMF want to have control of some parts, but would like to see releases handled by someone else (possibly outside)
   • Markus Possibly a reason why companies would sponsor MWStake
     • But, we need to stay on track & might need to hire someone
     • So maybe request a grant to start the process (get it off the ground)
   • Mark Not a lot of manual work, Markus & I spent a lot of time automating & documenting the process
   • Markus It's a very visible product though, not to be taken lightly
   • Cindy Plugged MWStake to WMDE so Wikibase 3rd party users would be more involved with MWStake
   • Markus The time required to do it right is probably around 4 hours/week
5. Current Projects
   • Eric-Jan There are two current projects within MWStake;
     1. Project Canasta
     2. MW Open Source Content Services

Chat transcript

Content pulled from the chat record of the meeting.

1. Eric-Jan Agenda
   • Code of Conduct
     • Cindy to contact WMF legal
   • Bryan and Markus to work on actions for this year
     • Voting on board members
     • Term length & transition
   • MWStake Membership
     • Acquiring new sponsors
2. Cindy (If time permits) MW releases
3. Bryan Gather Town test after meeting (optional)
   • https://gather.town/app/NPAGBOoDShxDlRGw/Canasta
4. Bernhard I'd like to talk about Social Media accounts at some point (especially Twitter).
5. Eric-Jan There are two current initiatives within MWStakeholders Group Canasta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Canasta and CSP. Here's the CSP page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_CSP
6. Bernhard https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project

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