Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting 7 February 2023
WMZA Board Meeting February 7, 2023
Attendees
[edit]- Bobby Shabangu
- Coenraad Loubser
- Deon Steyn
- Douglas Ian Scott
- Ingrid Thomson
- Khetiwe Marais
- Michael Graaf
- Nobantu Modise
- Shupai Mchuchu
Agenda
[edit]General Updates
[edit]- Projects and Events for the year/Annual grant
- https://webgate.ec.europa.eu, PADOR
Budget reallocations
[edit]- Some projects fall through, and new ones come up, which necessitate reallocation of budget line items
- We clear >R10k changes with WMF
- We're R80k short for interns
- African Language support
- Line item for reimbursement of time spent in meetings - R450/h, 4h/week
WMF
[edit]- Fund applications through Flux
- 13 employees in ZA (out of 700)
- Bobby have lots of meetings with WMF staff, eg. 3 this week
- Coenraad - requests minutes
- WMF staff reach out to Douglas and Bobby, instead of board.
- Douglas and Bobby to request they mail board@wikimedia.org.za
- and to highlight that our board is hands on and in the community and equally suited to help
Bookkeeping
[edit]- Meetings times aren't tracked and expensed to right budget items
- Coenraad notes that the bookkeepers can be asked to remedy
- Administrator should be coordinating, notifying and tracking - if things slips by it needs we need more
Discussion on billable and non-billable items
[edit]- To be discussed during grant workshops, and aligned with policy and strategy
- Coenraad proposes line item similar to the WMF meetings items, for meetings to grow local projects
- Bobby to share a draft policy
Khoi-san Community Project
[edit]- Douglas linked with Wikimedia NL Koopman to set a date, agreed to proceed
Wikiindaba Steering Committee
[edit]- Bobby represents us
- Committee of Africans to discuss content-wide issues, successes, ideas
- Two Wiki-indaba's annually, target countries will be announced on Feb 20
SA Akademie agreement
[edit]- Agreement allows Sanita 6h to assist Deon with coordination
- Douglas wants to discuss to have assistance from someone Pretoria side.
Mid-term report
[edit]- Douglas needs updates from July 2022- Sep 2022
NB see ops meeting minutes as whole board was present
[edit]http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Operational_Meeting_7_February_2023