Hello all, just a quick reminder that the first of these sessions will be happening tomorrow - if you are interested in joining this or one of the next sessions, please message me and you will be invited!
looking forward to hearing from you, Christel Christel Steigenberger (she/her) Senior Trust and Safety Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 9:59 AM Christel Steigenberger < csteigenber...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > We are writing to invite you to take part in a new project that the > Wikimedia Foundation Trust & Safety Team is creating. This project aims to > maintain and expand peer-support networks within the Wikimedia communities, > improve the working atmosphere on our projects, and aid in the fight > against harassment. > > In the Foundation, we believe that your participation and opinion is > important as it will enable us to gain diverse perspectives and new > information.This Peer Support Project endeavors to connect volunteers in a > way where they can support each other, and your knowledge, skills and > experience would be highly appreciated. For more information on the > project, please visit our Meta page > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Peer_Support_Networks_within_the_Wikimedia_Movement> > . > > If you'd like to lend your expertise here, we are organizing Focus group > meetings as a next step. In those meetings, we hope to learn about already > existing networks, ideas on how volunteers could connect more and better, > and what support they would need to do so. These meetings will cover three > different time zones, and each meeting will last two hours. Feel free to > sign up for the meeting that is most comfortable for you! > > Focus group meetings will be held on Google Meet on the days and times > listed below: > > 1 October 2021, 7:30 - 9:30 UTC > > 15 October 2021, 15:00 - 17:00 UTC > > 22 October 2021, 19:00 - 21:00 UTC > > Please feel free to encourage more members of your community or other > wikifriends to reach out to us if you believe that this project will be of > interest to them. > > Do let us know if you are available to participate in one of those > meetings listed above and we will send out calendar invites to you. If > you are interested, but are unavailable in the time slots listed above, > let us know and we will look for ways to connect. > > Please be aware that Trust & Safety will also reach out soon with a > similar offer to talk about training around the UCoC. Feel free to > concentrate on the issue that is most important to you, but of course you > are also very welcome to take part in both discussions. We are aware that > capacity is limited and will highly value any kind of participation! > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > > Christel Steigenberger (she/her) > > Senior Trust and Safety Specialist > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > >
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