LinguaLibre:Events/2022 Wikicamp

The 2022 Wikicamp is a yearly Wikimedia France IRL gathering, to gather in an easy-peasy settings the leading actors of the European Francophone community. (A larger, more formal yearly Francophone event is the WikiConvention, generally later in the year.)

• Objectives: Bring to upper decisional and funding levels of Wikimedia France 1) the urgency of technical issues, as gathered in meta:User:Adélaïde Calais WMFr/2022-2023 Lingualibre wishlist and :phabricator:Lingua_libre; 2) the confidence in our mission and its popularity ; 3) the need in a later outreach campaign.
• Dates: 2022.07.08-10
• Place: Domaine des Roches, Dieppe.
• Participants: 50 leading Francophone wikimedians. From Lingualibre: Adélaide, Poslovitch, Yug.
• Etherpad: not yet.

Results: This event efforts were productive. In Sunday 10th Board meeting, Lili was discussed for 45+ minutes.

👉 Adelaide presents: "2022, Lili in bad position".

👉 Board good willed, partially informed, learns in front of our eyes, gives opinions. (Not ideal)

👉 Adelaide defended the need for a full time dev.

👉 Solid consensus built "Wikimedia must finance a full dev for 4+ months, quickly".

👉 Friction on salary : following grid / equity (2150€ net) vs salary of a developer (2500€ net).

👉 Friction on in-house or freelance, mostly due to timeline.

Adelaide:

👉 Wrote job description

👉 Defends in-house and full right contract vision because: inclusion in the team, human respect.

Board:

👉 Materialization of a small camp "In fact, we need in-housse full time full-stack tech".

👉 Planification of an emergency board meeting in 10 days, dedicated to open that hiring process, freelance or in-house.

👉 Study of a 2nd salary grid for techs.

👉 Creation of a mixed Lili working committee composed of: 2 CA + Adelaide + Future Web Dev + 2 volunteers with tech understanding for orientation and synchronization with board.