Meeting Minutes-28 March 2017
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
User Group
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Simple APG Grant
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The grant has been approved and the first installment of funds should
be arriving in our account over the next 10 days.
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Recruitment for the Coordinator position and the WLM contractor are
ongoing. EE is processing the applications and interviews should be held
over the next 2 weeks.
Edit-a-thon/Workshops
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Trinity Workshop-15 March-RO reported approximately 25 attendees. There
were several lecturers who expressed an interest in using Wikipedia in the
classroom as well as several library personnel interested in running events.
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Vicipéid Workshop/DCU-22 March-There were approximately 14 attendees to
this event. We gave a general overview of Wikipedia and explored Vicipéid.
The organiser is keen to continue with monthly meetups to encourage editing
of Vicipéid. We made a few additional contacts in Galway whom we directed
to SF.
Upcoming Workshops
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UCC-June TBA
Conferences
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WMCOM 17-Berlin-30 March-2 April-SE and RO will be attending Wikimedia
Conference 2017. A full report will be provided at the next meeting.
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Celtic Knot Conference-Edinburgh-4-5 July-RO will attend this
Conference. SF has forwarded information on this conference to colleagues
at NUI Galway.
WLM
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Our 2016 report has been accepted. Planning on 2017 will begin after
hiring the WLM contractor.
-- Shannon Eichelberger
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Well, I’ll be on the flight to Berlin at 18:10.
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