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…>;
**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
This event has been changed.
Title: Wiscom meeting - 2022
==Agenda Items==Meet the 2022 WikiIndaba host country - bid
winner. Call for community elections to fill in the 3 volunteer
committee positions.Budgetary needs of the committee.Review of WISCom
practices (Documentation & file management)Other business.
(changed)
When: Sat 14 May 2022 2pm – 3pm South Africa Standard Time (changed)
Joining info: Join with Google Meet
https://meet.google.com/htr-ihar-gcv?hs=224
Calendar: wiscom(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Who:
* bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com- organiser
* dndubane(a)wikimedia.org
* reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com
* zaynebtakouti(a)gmail.com
* wiscom(a)lists.wikimedia.org
* gfodouop(a)gmail.com
* kateregga1(a)gmail.com
* mlouhisami(a)gmail.com
* rberchie(a)gmail.com
* ndubaneds(a)gmail.com
Event details:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MmdzbDdoMDFiYTBv…
Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/
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This event has been changed.
Title: Wiscom meeting - 2022
==Agenda Items==Responses to Conference Bid HERECall for community
elections to fill in the 3 volunteer committee positions.Budgetary
needs of the committee.Review of WISCom practices (Documentation &
file management)Other business. (changed)
When: Sun 24 Apr 2022 2pm – 3pm South Africa Standard Time (changed)
Joining info: Join with Google Meet
https://meet.google.com/htr-ihar-gcv?hs=224
Calendar: wiscom(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Who:
* bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com- organiser
* dndubane(a)wikimedia.org
* reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com
* zaynebtakouti(a)gmail.com
* wiscom(a)lists.wikimedia.org
* gfodouop(a)gmail.com
* kateregga1(a)gmail.com
* mlouhisami(a)gmail.com
* rberchie(a)gmail.com
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Dear WISCOM Members,
I hope my email reaches you all in good health. As leaders on the
continent, I wanted to inform you first about an announcement and an
opportunity to collaborate on a brewing project at the WMF.
Following the support and endorsement of the African Union for last year's
Wikindaba Conference, and their partnership with continental-wide projects
such as Wikibrance and AWC, I am happy to share that the WMF and the AU
have been working on a project dubbed the African Knowledge Initiative
(AKI).
This project will focus on working with Wikimedia affiliates to grow
content about the continent (shifting the storytelling into the hands of
Africans) and help our communities unlock new contributors through AU's
network and target groups. The project will specifically consist of
aligning existing campaigns on the continent to select AU holidays and a
training component for newbies.
Please keep your eyes peeled for this information, and kindly share it
with your communities when you come across it. I am also through this mail
availing myself to you all for any contributions, concerns, or questions
that you may have around this shaping project.
Will share more links to important information soon, looking forward to
working more closely with WISCOM as the project forms.
Warm regards,
--
Felix Nartey
Senior Program Officer, Campaigns
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>