Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting 7 February 2023

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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]


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

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