Meeting Minutes-16 February 2016

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Joseph Quinn (JQ)

Gabriel Beecham (GB)

Oliver Moran (OM)

User Group

• By-laws

• Voting took place on the by-laws. The tally was as follows:

• SE-Yay

• EE-Yay

• RO-Yay

• SF-Yay

• JQ-Yay

• GB-Yay

• OM-Yay

The vote was unanimously in favor of passage.

• Survey

• RO has account with Qualtrics to run the survey.

• It has been translated into Irish. GB and OM will look over it.

• It is scheduled to go live on Monday 22 February.

• SE and RO will promote it on social media and the mailing list.

Edit-a-thons

• PRONI

• The event went very well with about 10 participants. Though we did not get a lot of editing done, we did make some connections in PRONI and Queen’s University Belfast who are interested in running more events.

• Art+Feminism

• This is a virtual event which we will promote to our users.

Conferences

• Museum Next-April

• RO will present a workshop at this event

• Ed-Tech-end of May

• SF would like to present a workshop at this conference building on the talk she gave last year.

• It was suggested that the workshop either cover just the basics or the use of the Education extension, depending on the allotted time.

WLM

• No News

WLE

• John Cummings (WMUK and WIkimedian in Residence at UNESCO) is interested in running a joint Wiki Loves Earth contest with Ireland and UK.

• It was agreed that we have no one to spare at the moment to run it, but we could assist the UK if they wanted to run it.

• RO will stay in touch with WMUK

Other Events

• Science Gallery

• EE has confirmed the date of 11 May from 6:30-8 for our next event.

• The theme is Future Farms and we are looking for speakers.

• NUIGalway

• SF confirmed the photowalk will take place at the end of March and they will be uploaded to Commons.