Meeting: Committee (2015-10-05)

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! Wikimedia Australia Inc.
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! MINUTES
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! Monday 5 October 2015, 19:00 AEDST
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Meeting opened at 19:03 AEDST

== Introduction ==
===Attendance===
* Present: Steve, Michael, Gideon, Andrew, Pru, Charles
* Apologies: Kerry, Craig (leave of absence)
* Absent: 

===Previous minutes===
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; Motion: The minutes of the [[Meeting:Committee (2015-09-13)|13 September meeting]] be accepted:
*Moved: Steve
*Second: Gideon
*Carried without dissent.
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==Action items from previous meeting==
* ACTION: Andrew to contact Michael re getting current members from Xero.  DONE
** ACTION: Andrew to pass file on to Pru for upload to Google docs, to be resolved before AGM.
* ACTION: Public liability - to be paid DONE
* ACTION: Gideon to respond to help email regarding Laurie Patton  Done
* ACTION: Steve to organise bridge for AGM - done
* ACTION: Andrew to email asap to member lists etc to advise of date of meeting and ask for any issues with Skype
* place of meeting for each location, eg Melbourne is Monash Caulfield, following WikiD workshop - done

==Reports==
=== Finance report ===
* Position at 30 September is $62,804.
* Reports on wiki.
* BAS's lodged, expected refunds are-
** 339 for Sep quarter.
** 333 for June quarter.
* AIS (financial statemetns) emailed to comm list - this will be tabled at the AGM for members
* HTTPS is now enabled on our main site- https://wikimedia.org.au/
** This was suggested in April by Mitch Ames
** Certificate is valid through to mid-2017
** Note that security benefits aside, Google encourages this, and will now rank us with our HTTPS-enabled Wikimedia peers: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html
* Treasurer position discussed in light of Michael not re-nominating.

===Membership report===
*37 confirmed members as at close of membership list, 4 renewed in the last week. 2 additional are yet to pay and will pay in Nov.

==Incoming correspondence==
* Uni Syd grant application - Being handled by Kerry.
* UWA academic organising meet-up with Steve & Michael.

== Agenda ==
=== Decisions ===

=== Discussion ===
* AGM
- Local branches for Information

* Wikimania 2017 - Perth Bid
** Discussion around drafting a letter regarding new bid process.
** Don't want to be too combative, but want to communicate our position.
** ACTION: Steve to write something short & professional up to record our concern over lack of process and transparency.
* Wikipedia 15th birthday
** Keep this on the agenda for next committee. Mention at AGM.
* General business
* Discussion around committee size and quorum.
* Melbourne meetup in planning (Pru, Mike, Steve).
* Final thanks

== General business ==

Next meeting: Not scheduled, due to AGM.
Meeting closed: 18:09 AEST

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