Wikipedia:Meetup/South Africa/South Africa 14

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A screenshot of the 14th South Africa meetup on Discord.

Everyone is warmly invited to attend the 14th South African online discussion held on Discord (with Zulip as a backup).

Date and time

• Date: Saturday, 29 January 2022
• Start time: 10:00 AM SAST
• End Time: 12:00 PM SAST
• Location: Online Meeting
  • We will be trying out our new Discord channel as our meeting location this time (see link below). If that does not work for you then don't worry, you can still join via Zulip at the link below for a more text-based experience.

Interested in joining the South African Wikipedia Discord?
If you are interested in a joining, please visit Wikipedia:Meetup/South Africa/Discord for more Infomation or click the button below Everyone in Southern Africa is Welcome, for any technical issues or questions about Discord, Please ask User:TapticInfo on his talk page Join Server

• • Platform: Zulip (text chat)
    • Server: WMZA Meetup 14 (note: registration is necessary)

Topics

Creative Commons & Copyright

• Paul West as guest from Creative Commons South Africa.
• Letter from Bobby and Douglas responding to the request for comments on the Copyright Amendment Bill.
• Issues with the Open_educational_resources article. See also Paul's Medium blog post Clarification of Free Cultural Works, Open Educational Resources and Open Access.
  • Confusing wording of the Unesco License.
• Freedom of Panorama
• Commons does not allow CC-BY NC because the NC-part cannot be policed. See also NC Commons

Misc

• Be Bold
• Wikipedia Editor
• Pictures of Cyril Ramaphosa and Other Major Politicians
  • South African Government Flickr Account
  • Approaching ENCA about possibly uploading to Wikimedia
• Wikimedia Server Locations
  • Amazon, Oracle, Teraco in South Africa
  • Amazon Solar Power Plant
• Foundation's Budget. Audit Report

Attendance

Please add your username using Template:User.

• YaguraStation (talk) 08:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
• --Discott (talk) 10:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
• TapticInfo
• Paul West (Creative Commons South Africa)
• coltranesa
• (7 in total)

Participants

• Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA)Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA) (talk) 08:54, 9 December 2021 (UTC)