Hi, I am just reposting Shupai's email as I see that the mailing list
reformatted and garbled the original one a bit. Please see below.
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Hello Everyone
This is a quick reminder of the upcoming Wikimedia South Africa Annual
General Meeting (AGM) taking place this coming Saturday, 25 September.
Please see below for the event details as well as our AGM pack, this
includes a link to our activity report for the year 2020/2021 as well as
our first newsletter.
We also have some exciting news. The Wikimedia Foundation has very
recently appointed
a new CEO
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/14/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-maryana-iskander-as-chief-executive-officer/>.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the umbrella organisation that runs the servers
that Wikipedia is based on, collects all of the donations to Wikipedia (and
other Wikis), and supports the community of volunteer editors that make the
Wikis happen. Such as Wikimedia South Africa. Maryana Iskander was
appointed CEO on 14 September 2021 and, excitingly for us, she is based in
South Africa. She has indicated to us her intention to join the first hour
of the AGM so as to better get acquainted with the South African Wiki
community. As such from 10:00 to 11:00 the AGM will focus on introductions
and discussions about the Wiki communities in South Africa and globally.
This will have the added benefit to the broader movement of introducing her
to our movement’s unique culture.
AGM details
Date: 25 September 2021
Time: 10:00 to 13:00 with 1-hour lunch intermission and resumes at 14:00
return for board elections
Location: On your computer via Zoom register to join
<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87065558984?pwd=LzVUckI5Sm91U08vMDB5Uk5QYkdTQT09>
AGM pack
The activity report can be seen on meta here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM_ZA/Activity_Report_2020-21
In the activity report, you can see all the chapter's activities from July
2020 to June 2021. The activity report is broken up into two halves with
the first half focused (Mid-term report) focused on the chapter’s
activities from June 2020 to December 2020 and the second half (Final
report) focused on our activities from January 2021 to June 2021.
We also have our first newsletter which can be seen here:
http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Newsletter_1
Unfortunately, the bookkeepers and accountants haven’t yet finished the
financial report for the 2020/21 year but have assured us that they are
working hard on getting that done before the AGM and we will send that out
as soon as it is completed. In the meantime we have added a brief financial
report on the previous year’s finances.
Best regards and looking forward to seeing you all there.
--
Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727