Hi folks,

Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting.

There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that you would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and ideas from other Wikimedians.

I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with software or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone number will be visible to other participants.

The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live interpretation also.

Here is information about how to connect:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210

Or iPhone one-tap : Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210# Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): Argentina: +54 341 512 2188 Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088 or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149 Canada: +1 647 558 0588 Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088 France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188 or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048 Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188 or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800 Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688 Italy: +39 069 480 6488 Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488 or +81 524 564 439 Mexico: +52 229 910 0061 or +52 554 161 4288 Spain: +34 84 368 5025 or +34 91 198 0188 Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434 or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488 Russia: +7 495 283 9788 United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874 or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088 US: +1 408 638 0986 or +1 646 558 8665 Meeting ID: 136 978 210 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy

The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC / 10:00 Pacific.

Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_reform_town_hall_meeting,_2009-09-02.jpg, so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking. (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating, then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488.jpg. I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.

Until next time, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )