Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/16 January 2019

WMZA Board Meeting

Present

edit
  • Adri Baard
  • Bobby Shabangu
  • Coenraad Loubser
  • Douglas Scott
  • Ian Gilfillan
  • Michael Graaf
  • Raymond Ellis
  • Rossouw van Rooyen

Agenda

edit

Wikipedia's birthday User Oesjaar

edit

Suggestions

  • Biltong package (Who?)
  • Tweet (Ian)
  • Was mentioned in a FB post
  • Personal call
  • Find a list of local users
  • Website post (Douglas)
  • Douglas proposes Deon co-opted on to board
    • Adri seconds, all in agreement

Brief on Zulip/jitsi

edit
  • Some points of difficulty raised - integration, especially with GOogle, notifications
  • Zulip does allow control over notifications, will stick with it and use more extensively to test, dealing with problems as they arise

Survey for 2019

edit
  • 5 years since last survey
  • Questions can be mostly the same
  • Douglas hoping to see April - May - June period (same as last time for comparison purposes)
  • Requires liaising with WMF
  • Douglas to initiate

Bquest administrators

edit

Separate meeting to be set up to go through the proposed tasks and subsequent costs

Progress on APG application

edit
  • Bobby and Douglas met with WMF to discuss stumbling block, Joburgpedia
  • WMF cannot give us grant until Joburgpedia is closed. Still unanswered questions about finances, expenses, what money was left
  • Dispute is on how much is owed to WMF. Douglas believed it was closed. WMF expects $1779. Dumi thinks it is less, perhaps even $0. Dumi needs to sit with WMF


Afrikaans writing contest brief

edit

Question about user from Elandskop Museum

edit
  • Request for laptop and camera
  • suggestion to refer to 2nd hand goods program
  • Coenraad has a donated laptop he fixed; will also look for local sponsors, an opportunity to do a small project, and get some articles up?
  • Ask Dumi for the laptops he has
  • Bobby: Have to ensure that she contributes free content - we have a long list of people waiting for laptops, who contribute to free content
  • Adri to request user names so we can look up contribution history

20 mins Paybook demonstration

edit
  • Meeting adjourned to have 20m demo by Paybook

Did not have time for further items

2019 Year of the Indigenous Languages

edit

Namibian user

edit

Concept Note for STB Hackathon

edit