Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/9 March 2021
Wikimedia South Africa Board meeting 2021-03-09 19:00
Attendance
[edit]Present:
[edit]- Bobby Shabangu
- Coenraad Loubser
- Rossouw van Rooyen
- Michael Graaf
- Wynand vd Walt
- Nobantu Modise
- Deon Steyn
Apologies:
[edit]- Douglas Scott
Agenda
[edit]Previous minutes
[edit]Not discussed
WMF Board skills for work workshop
[edit]- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats/Conversations/Topic_panels/Topic_panel:_Skills_for_board_work?fbclid=IwAR14xyUd3qZtWTcxYFWHGVPNeEzH9St8srzWfNddHUvNxbGr440KH1JPQoo
- Everyone is invited to join.
January/ February chapters finance presentation.
[edit]- Douglas to query Magriet R5000; SARS R506
- Coenraad to follow up on Payfast contributions
Research grant
[edit]- Wynand needs to advertise and allocate before end of grant cycle (June?)
Projects update and projects for next cycle
[edit]- Wynand suggests a standard expense claim form Shupai please set it up
- Bobby reviewing project list - the first item is University outreaches
- Wynand can us up with a way to reach out to all universities.
- Email to community members
- Bobby to set up a project suggestion form - Coenraad suggests adding a consent box to add the project to our website, so we can list all projects and templates on our website.
- Shupai please contact Deon to ask for the images he needs so you can include the call in the newsletter.
- Shupai planning to send out a monthly newsletter on Friday - and will include the link.
- We are losing track of a lot of things - eg. we didn't do anything about women's month.
Knowledge Audit
[edit]- Wynand's knowledge audit is an attempt to map out the knowledge and skills we have in the community.
- Coenraad suggests adding a survey to the newsletter
- Wynand suggests that the board leads by example by saying what we do and what we're working on Nobantu
- Bobby suggests community survey right away
- Coenraad suggest ongoing community survey with just 1-2 questions each quarter or newsletter
- Wynand asks whether we can analyze edits from South Africa
Items standing over to next meeting
[edit]Petty Cash
[edit]- Coenraad wants to allocate an amount of R5000/year for staff to spend at their discretion without waiting for board approval - for example Nobantu suggested we use a social media scheduler. I don't think the