Programs/Meetings/2020-08-31

Meeting information

Date and location

• Date: 31 August 2020
• Location: Online

Participants

• Jean-Michel Lapointe (Committee President) (Board member)
• Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf (Board member)
• Benoit Rochon (Board member) (referent of Montreal WikiClub)
• Sarah Severson (Board member)

Observer

• Jean-Philippe Béland (consultant) (referent of Ottawa-Gatineau WikiClub)

Minutes

Programs budgets

• APG 2020. Nothing was received from the "call for projects". A grant request is coming soon for a speaker series at the University of Alberta.
• Rapid Grant Health and Science Editing Initiatve of Hamilton WikiClub. Nil.

Major events

• Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos. The campaign is finishing today. The tool to track the hashtags was broken for a while and is now catching up.
• Wiki Loves Earth. The winners will be submitted tomorrow.
• Wiki Loves Monuments. For the first time this year, we can choose a month for the national contest. The Programs Committee proposed from 15 September to 15 October.
• National Contribution Month in Canada. The Programs Committee decided to not organize any Contribution Month in Canada this year.

Other projects and general business

• Weather Observations Project. The project is progessing well. There will be a meeting soon to organize the rest of the project.
• APG 2021. The drafts for the Annual Plan 2021 and the Annual Budget 2021 were presented to the Committee. There will be a 2021 planning meeting in mid-September.

Roundtable

• WikiClubs. Jean-Michel Lapointe proposed to have an online gathering of the WikiClubs. Sarah Severson proposed to also invite the communities, especially the universities, who do wiki activities without having WikiClubs.