Meetings/2020-02-03

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Date and location

• Date: 3 February 2020
• Time: 19:00 EDT
• Location: Online

Minutes

Reports

President and Executive Committee Report

• The President made a summary of the activities of the last months, and talked about the WikiConference North America, the ECCC Project, and the Francophone Contribution Month.

Secretary Report on members

Nil.

Treasurer Report

• Benoit Rochon reported the totals in the bank and PayPal accounts.

Programs Committee Report

• Jean-Michel Lapointe will remain the Chair of the Programs Committee. His main role will be to facilitate the meetings, in addition to liaise with the Board of Directors. He will receive assistance from Jean-Philippe Béland as needed.
• The main points from the minutes of the last meeting of the Programs Committee were read.

Report on contractuals

• Pierre Choffet: He is working on the ECCC Project (uploding the data from Environment Canada on Wikimedia projects). He will develop a script to do a mass import of the data.
• Jean-Philippe Béland: Doing great.

Expenditure Approvals

• The Board unanimously resolved that the contractual consultant Jean-Philippe Béland hires Atypic, a firm for fundraising and communications, as a consultant for fundraising and to develop a communication strategy from the remaining budget of the Annual Plan Grant 2019 for contractuals after paying his bills.

Old Business

• Review of the Communications Policy. No change since last meeting.
• Contract with Atypic. No change since last meeting.
• Signing of the Roles and responsibilities of the directors of Wikimedia Canada. The Board members were reminded of the importance to read and sign them.

New Business

• WikiConference North America 2020. Stacy Alisson-Cassin pointed out that we need to set up subcommittees for various tasks such as local arrangements and programs. It would be interesting to have a former organizer of the conference on the organizing committee. Meetings will be held frequently to prepare the organization and set three or four subcommittees. She is confident that she will find many volunteers in Toronto.

Roundtable

• Ha-Loan Phan mentioned to use the Board email address only for governance issues and not for all information points related to projects.
• Benoit Rochon mentioned that Pierre Choffet will install a SSTO manager for the emails sent to infowikimedia.ca.
• Stacy Alisson-Cassin mentioned that the IFLA Working Group should be in Dublin for the IFLA WLIC 2020 in August.
• Michael David Miller mentioned that he may go to Queering Wikipedia in Linz, Austria in May.