Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/4 December 2018

WMZA Board meeting

4 December 2018 | 19h00 - 21h00

Attendance

Bill going to parliament tomorrow
Copyright alliance trying to sink bill, petition running with famous authors
Douglas, Ian and Coenraad & Adri vote to allow Douglas to write up an opinion piece on misunderstandings and benefits of Fair Use
- Dispel myths (robs authors of their rights), arguments for (why we care).

Requires panel of judges
Securing the funding (have miscellaneous war chest) ~R500k
Publicity. Connecting to other groups.
Liaise with Wiki Africa
Perhaps run edit-a-thon
Adri agrees to co-ordinate WMZA involvement
Questions about funding Wiki Africa are receiving. Bobby to investigate further.
Some discussion about events in 2013, history with Wiki Africa

Postponed to 2019 annual grant cycle pending a report about jhbpedia ~end of feb
Turned down by WMF due to not meeting the deadline for closure of Joburgpedia
Can approach WMF early next year again
Joburgpedia issue is about confusion over funds relating to closing the Jobergpedia Digitisation Report.
Need to submit proof to WMF that everyone was paid, and proof we returned the money.
Gil was reimbursed, issue was funds from Chapter vs Foundation. Chapter has paid, WMF needs to be shown proof of this

58 members signed up in the last 3 months
6 payments received
BQuest contracted to follow admin checklist - send welcome emails, generate payment links, reconcile payments, send reminder emails, followup emails etc.

1-Grid debited us for the next year need to make changes before next year's debit
Still receiving very poor service about queries, and billing, but unfortunately, we have paid for the year, so not a priority to change right now

Who are we sending. Need to decide in next few days
Rossouw has volunteered
Last year was Coenraad and Michael (Douglas also attended as Wikimania organiser)
Coenraad interested in strategy stream
Bobby interested in going, last went in 2013
To discuss on Zulip