Meeting:Committee (2014-11-09)
Wikimedia Australia Inc. | ||
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MINUTES | ||
Sunday 9 November 2014, 16:00 AEDST |
- Start: 16:21 AEDST; 13:21 AWST (West Coast)
Note: This meeting was originally scheduled for 2 November but was postponed due to lack of quorum.
Attendance
- Attendance: Craig, Kerry, Steven, Pru, Charles, Andrew (from approx 4:10 AEST)
- Apologies: Michael, Gideon
- Absences
Minutes
- Minutes not being available for previous meeting there was discussion on this issue.
- Etherpad is part of the strategy to ensure meeting record is available - especially action items
- Action: Pru to research administrative support service on hourly basis - agenda item for Face to Face meeting
- Action: Steve to discuss prompt publication of formal minutes with Secretary
Actions items from last meeting
Reports
Finance report
- Position (in cash): $74,366, up to September 30.
- Please see File:2014-09 Wikimedia Australia Inc. - Cash Summary.pdf
- One $20 donation received from Mark McDonald, Sept 26.
- Cash summary up to Oct 31 will be presented at next meeting (the complete data is not yet available).
- Our 1st Quarter Business Activity Statement is being lodged, and we can expect a $230.00 refund.
- Invoice sent for one uncontested membership application (Mai Tran) since last meeting.
- Expense claims coming in for-
- Face-to-face meetings
- The current line-up of workshops and presentations.
- Banners (me).
- Looking forward to invoices for business cards and tele-conferencing (Charles, Pru).
- Redbank teleconferencing invoice for AGM: Invoice Number 9900282103114 $115.60 - Action: Treasurer to pay this
- Bank forms with Steve still at this stage. - sent on to MB for review
Membership report
- Letters to the members noted as paid have been sent out
Action: Charles will set up Idea scale for members to contribute to agenda for face to face meeting, then send a message to member list to invite responses/discussion
Agenda - discussion
- Update on ALIA sessions and progress of them
- http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Past_events
- Add numbers for each session
- Report on each session - what type of template
- Need to adjust workshops for audience, eg professional/academic audience 'get' citation. Some community groups have participants who lack computer skills
- Steve reported on success of using Visual Editor with the Neuroscience Wikibomb
- ACTION: Presenters to upload slide sets to Wikimedia Australia site
- Planning for face to face meeting
- Craig has advised he will be an apology for the weekend
- Logistics:
- Flights: need to know the final arrangements people have made in order to book accommodation
- Charles - arr Sat am 8.15am, out Sunday evening
- Kerry - fly in Friday, out Sunday evening
- Gideon - fly in Friday, out Monday? TBC
- Andrew - fly in Thursday, out Tuesday (seeing friends either side)
- Accommodation:
- ACTION:Kerry to confirm arrangements for everyone, as she will be one of the first people arriving.
- Kerry to book accommodation and be reimbursed
- Flights: need to know the final arrangements people have made in order to book accommodation
Edit Training/Workshops
- Edit camp, Canberra
- An event that SZ did (Wikibomb?)
- Golf sessions (Brisbane and Oakey)
- Local history (Oakey)
Kerry to present to Mt Gravatt photo club regarding Commons
Meeting closed 5.21pm