Thanks Isaac,
Will send another link for this coming Saturday, hope you’ll be able to
make it.
Best,
Bobby Shabangu
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 23:16, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Bobby,
Thanks for the minutes. And a big hugs to colleagues who attended
the meeting.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a reminder even though I accepted the invite
(not a fault from you Bobby). I think I need to check the settings of my
calendar.
Isaac
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, 20:41 Bobby Shabangu, <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks to colleagues who attended the meeting today. Below kindly find
minutes and tasks to be executed before our meeting next week.
*==Attendance ==*
- Bobby
- Raphael
- Georges
- Zayneb
*==Apologies ==*
- None
*==Agenda Items==Confirmation of Country Representation (Previous
Organizers of the Conference)*
- All previous host countries have confirmed their representatives
except Tunisia
- Zayneb joined on her own accord and to provide advice since she's
experienced organising WikiIndaba not representing Tunisia.
*Call for bids to host Wiki Indaba 2022*
Proposal
Task
Date/ day
Person responsible
· In order to have more diverse pool of participants, African
Wikimedians need to be encouraged to form affiliate groups ( Chapters,
Usergroups, Thematic groups) within their respective countries.
An email to be sent to Affcom to encourage African Wikimedians to form
affiliate groups.
Monday
Raphael
- We have a small pool of affiliates in the African continent to
adequately invite Affilliates per region.
- We need to invite all current African affiliates to bid to host
WikiIndaba conference.
Consolidation of all African user affiliates (Usergroups and thematic
groups) who have not hosted the conference before and their main contacts
persons.
Wednesday
Georges
- To shorten the vetting a questionnaire asking key questions about
the state of readiness to host the conference needs to be sent to all
countries who have express interest of hosting.
· Write questionnaire to be sent to sent countries who have
express interest to host the conference.
Friday
Bobby
*Call for community elections to fill in the 3 volunteer committee
positions
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWiki_Indaba_Steering_Committee%2FMembers&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw286Q7awe42eAYdP4EcyywM>;
**Budgetary needs of the committee and **Review of WISCom practices
(Documentation & file management *to discussed in the next meeting
*Next meeting will take place on *
*26 March 2022 at the same time. *
Best regards,
Bobby Shabangu