2015-01-24 Board Meeting

APPROVED

Date: January 24, 2015
Time: 14h00 - 18h00
Venue: Avenue du Pérou 80 Perulaan, B1000 Brussels
Present: Afernand74, DerekvG, Geertivp, MADe, M0tty, Romaine
Excused: Dimi_z
Members: Lionel Scheepmans, Smile4ever, SPQRobin, Oreo Priest, Ste.caneva, Smiley.toerist

Agenda for the Board Meeting on 24 January 2015

Introduction

This board meeting was open to our effective members. It was held after the 2015-01-24 General Assembly.

Budget rules

See 2015-01-24 General Assembly

Organisation of Micro Project Financing

M0tty explained the mechanism of the Micro grant.

Overview of planned activities 2015

Project Days

On 4 February 2014 we will organise the firt Project Days meeting for institutions and personal projects. It will be repeated every 6 months.

FOSDEM

Talking about Wikimedia presence during FOSDEM 2015 (FOSDEM 2015 public website).

Wikimedia members are encouraged to book two hour of presence at the Wikimedia stand.

Wiki Loves Art

Spinster and Romaine had a session in Antwerp with a number of musea. They felt that Belgian musea are a bit hesitating as to allow uploading of free content. It was proposed to work closely together with Packed, Eurpeania, and Creative Commons Belgium. Instead of we going to the musea, it would be better if the musea would request our involvement. One participating museum could trigger other musea' involvement.

Goals

Learn to know the museum
Learn to know Wikimedia Belgium, and Wikipedia
Collect good pictures (into Commons)

Issues

Musea could set a maximum picture resolution
Limiting the number of participating musea (effort, coordination, communication)
Could require a lot of work
We do not have a paid employee yet...
Agree on the GFDL or CC BY-SA license
Musea could want some service in return: article, publication on paper, etc.
It is (technically) difficult to take good pictures (light, reflection, other objects, etc.)
Musea could have free advertising via Wikipedia articles (Google Search!)

We have still to discuss a lot about licenses, organisation, community, responsibilities, foundation involvement.

EU Commission

Romaine had an editing session at the European Commission.

Rijksmuseum

Ste.caneva proposed some possibility here (Joris Spechel?)

Cycling Press License

Afernand74 proposed a press license to report on cycling activities.

Training

M0tty proposed Wikipedia training in: Mundaneum, Mons 2015, UCL
Lionel has prepared training material on fr:Wikipédia:Présentation