Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape Town/Cape Town 10

Date:

Sunday, 4th October 2015

A photo of the 8 people who attended the 10th Cape Town meetup on the 4 October 2015 at Truth Coffee.

A map illustrating the location of the Truth Coffee building on 36 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town, South Africa.

Please keep a lookout for a sign like this indicating the table for the meetup.

Location:

Truth Coffee, 36 Buitenkant St, Cape Town 8000, South Africa
Wikimedia ZA's office is located about two blocks away on 8 Spin Street. NOT to be confused with the Truth Coffee at the Prestwich Memorial. See the map location here.

Contact number: +27 21 200 0440

Time:

11:00am - 2:00pm

Discussions

• Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 (brief)
• Wikimania 2015 update (brief)
• Need to create an article about the Table Mountain Fires of 2015
• Freedom of Panorama in SA: amending the Copyright Act of 1978
• Wikimedia ZA chapter updates

• Agreed to have our AGM on the 14th November 2015

• Having a Wiknic next time

• Agreed that this would be a good idea

• Talked a lot about the need to increase diversity and reduce systemic bias in Wikipedia
• Kiwix wifi unit, tested it out and took note of the need to increase its reliability to allow people to connect to it (keeps on dropping people when lots of devices are around) and its slow speed. Also need to fix the video option. Discussed rollout options and possible pilot sites.

Attended

• Discott
• Elmidae hopefully make it to this one
• LiebeB
• Greenman
• That Video Shop Guy if the stars align
• Dumbassman same dude, more coffee
• Tadpolefarm hope to find the Wiki-table this time
• Wizzy…☎ Bokke!

Apologies

• Raymond Ellis Influenza

Coffee

11 cups of free coffee were consumed.