Preparations for Board Meeting January 2015

Logo Wikimedia Belgium

DRAFT

Opening

• Approval of previous Board meeting minutes

Communication

Social media

• Background photo Twitter (Board?)
• Twitter icon has been removed from home page by Lionel? Still usefull though as a communication means...
• LinkedIn: Wikimedia BE & MediaWiki users (646 members!)
• Do we need/use Facebook?
• File sharing/updating: Google docs/Google Drive? Dropbox?
• Proximus conferencing tool for Board usage (sponsoring allowed?)
• What about Google Apps for Eduction? / Microsoft 365 for nonprofits (this type of sponsoring allowed?)

Use of websites

Discuss proposal of Geert: usage of Wikimedia web sites

Language policy

When to communicate in English, when to communicate in 3+1 languages (NL, FR, DE, EN)?

Collaboration

Other Chapters & Interaction

• Wikipedia nl.wikipedia.org -> should the WMNL flyer refer to Belgium as well?
• Also BE should be heard & have moderators (do we have Flemish/Walloon moderators?). Edit conflicts/discussions.
• FR negative reactions on BE? How to cure?
• Difference in culture FR/NL/BE. How to manage?
• Wiktionary FR does not mention NL reference?

Projects

• Projects Days

RIO

On the GA of 24 January 2014 it was stated that there is no voted RIO yet.