Not to be pedantic but my name is spelled wrong :P

Not to be pedantic but my name is spelled wrong :P

Apologies, Maurizio. Sadly there doesn't appear a way for me to
fix this (similar to how Bugzilla doesn't allow editing)?

Attila, Knurpht and myself will be meeting this week to get this rolling

The minutes from our first meeting (19/01/22)

Present: Knurpht, Emily, Mau, Bill, Attila

Points of discussion:

Platforms - current point of focus:

• Facebook
• Twitter - not really possible to moderate
• Telegram - way too cluttered, how to moderate all official groups?
• Discord
• Matrix
• IRC
• Mailing lists - ask the Heroes for a list of moderators here
• forums-o-o
• Reddit

Appointing moderation representatives

• There should be 2 people from each platforms
• The platforms should elect their representatives
• These reps ideally participate in moderation meetings. Meetings are beneficial to see and meet people "face-to-face",
• Suggested: Meetings to take place at 12pm UTC,

Create a mailing list

https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/27
- Yes, contact Heroes!

Moderator accountability across platforms

https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/9
- create document of best practices, training, general guidelines based off the Guiding principles.
- Guidelines on how to moderate?
- deescalate a situation instead of banning immediately
- resolve conflicts between members
- When to ban?
- Spamming,
- sharing pornography,
- phishing etc.

Conflict resolution board/conflict committee/Conflict club

• Committee reports to the Board,
• The committee keep records on conflicts and how the resolution went,
• The committee handles conflict resolutions between individuals,
• The Board to support the Conflict Resolution Committee,
• The Board steps in when the Committee can't resolve a conflict or the conflict is between two projects.

Next steps:

• Start a document detailing what we are doing and keep the community updated
• Reach out to the Heroes to set up the moderation mailing list
• Ask the Heroes for a list of moderators on the mailing lists
• Next meeting on 26/01,Wed 1pm UTC

you also missed IRC which is still our most used platform for development discussions. I am a moderator in some channels but sysrich is a mod in more.

you also missed IRC which is still our most used platform for development discussions. I am a moderator in some channels but sysrich is a mod in more.

I think it was an oversight, we did talk about it in the meeting. Sorry.

Mods Group Meetings Minutes - 20220209 - 1345 UTC start
Present:
- Bill
- Gertjan
- Maurizio

Minutes by Bill

• Topics/Actions
• Discussed how moderators may be appointed
• Discussed importance of transparency with conflicts involving moderators
• Crafted a universal list of what constitutes an instant ban
• Started outline of moderation for "official" vs "non-official" platforms and groups (action item to create better defined framework) and discussed social media management briefly
• Created internal mod guidelines for decision making
• Determined what constitutes spamming vs self-promotion, allowing the platform mods to make individual decisions best to their platform community

• Created escalation framework for mods and mods-team

• Outstanding topics
  1. Set a reminder 24h prior meeting (Everyone)
  2. Continue documentation of moderation processes (All)
  3. Creation of mods-team@lists.opensuse.org mailing list (Bill to work with heroes)

Future Consideration:

• We should consider a framework that defines what makes a openSUSE platform official (social media, news, RSS, Reddit groups)

Respectfully submitted,
Bill Schouten

Mods meeting minutes 18.02.22

Present: Bill, Knurpht, Attila

Bots

• Banned bots on X platform should be banned on other platforms as well,
• Mods of platform Y should be able to overrule this decision, but requires a discussion with the other mods, and should be decided there,
• More of an idea: Would we be able to make a bot that can kick users cross-platform?

User History

• Problematic users who create multiple identities across platform are a reason for concern
  • Moderators can potentially identify these individuals by observing a pattern in their behavior
• A Pagure project to be utilized to run and maintain a user history which is shared between the different platform moderators

Mods team

• We need to finalize the Mods documentation
• Elect people to the moderation team
• Announce the_mods project_ on the @project mailing list
  • prior to this we should go live on the wiki and link to this document in our announcement e-mail

Action Items

• Create a list of existing moderators
• Annual review of moderation policies (in case we or the community wants to change something)
• Invite Sasi and Richard to our next meeting for feedback and input purposes

Mods meeting minutes 01-04-22

CoC discussion

• CoC is considered v1.0
• Considering translations

Moderation discussion

• Polish telegram group: group is dead, try and contact the admin for potentially taking over the account
  • Check with Sasi the Matrix side
  • Telegram rules

Next steps

• "On-boarding" material preparations for future mods/admins
  • do this prior to recruiting new mods/admins
  • Issue #27 already has some discussions on this

ML mods-team@lists.o.o was created, with Bill, Emily, Mau, Atilla, knurpht, Jens as initial members.

I don't think you have any one from irc on the list atm.