AGM 2021

Held online via a Zoom call on Monday 13 December 2021.

The following items are on the agenda. The person responsible for presenting or chairing the item is in brackets.

Agenda

  • Welcome
  • Apologies (Secretary)
  • Attendance (Secretary)
  • Confirmation of minutes from 2020 AGM (held December 2020) (Co-chairs)
  • Annual report (Co-chairs)
  • Annual financial statement (Treasurer)
  • Election of 2022 committee (Co-chairs)
  • Planning for OZeWAI 2022 (Conference Convener)
  • Any other business (Co-chairs)

Minutes

Attendees

Gerry Neustatl, Manisha Amin, Ricky Onsman, Amanda Mace, Bri Norton, Andrew Downie, Natalie Collins, Nicole and Manon.

Minutes of previous AGM

Moved by Bri, seconded by Natalie

Chair report

  • We had new interim committee members join and they’re all voted in.
  • We had a Get Online Week activity.
  • We have set up some new committee management tools (1password, Campaign Monitor and Patreon) and a ways of working and onboarding document for committee members, we also updated the OZeWAI logo to use more accessible colours (an action from the February 2020 conference).
  • Website is in a staging area and there is a sub-committee of volunteers working on it (Julie, Ricky, Christos, Bri, Likhasinh, Russ and John), Andrew will be assisting with testing.
  • Ongoing work on what the membership of OZeWAI will look like in the future.
  • Partnership with other conferences continues, including Perth Web Accessibility Camp (PWAC) and Accessible and Inclusive Tourism Conference for Asia-Pacific (AITCAP).
  • Manisha, Sean and Greg Alchin are representing OZeWAI on a review of the Digital Strategy for the Human Rights Commission.
  • Bri, Andrew N, Andrew D and Nicole are working with the DTA on Accessibility ICT Procurement discovery workshops.

Finance report

  • Premium information has been shared with the committee about the directors’ and officers’ insurance and then the recommendation is to do a little bit more user research around the kind of insurance offering f
  • Treasurer’s report for for the year ending, June 30 2020. So we made a small surplus of $3,445, that was helped by having a virtual conference in December, and receiving a small Get Online Week grant for that year.
  • We had a total income for the 2020 year of just under $10,000. So it was $9,627 and expenses just over $6,000. So, at June 30, we had total of cash at Bank and PayPal as $28,835.
  • Trialed a few months of an OZeWAI coordinator role which has been put on hold until more work is needed to establish the membership model.