Meeting Minutes-27 January 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Clement McGann (CM)
Joseph Quinn (JQ)
User Group
We still have not heard back about the domain name
RO will send an email about the User Group Agreement changes
The Wiki Loves Monuments site was hacked over the last week. EE was able to
recover most of the data, but the map points we corrupted. EE will continue
working on the problem and try to recover the map points
Edit-a-thons
10 participants are signed up for the Engineers Week event on 8 February.
RO is promoting it on Facebook and SE is promoting it on Twitter
RO will craft a press release for the Engineers Week event as well as the
WWI event being held at Collins Barracks on 14 February
Conferences
Digital Preservation Conference-the deadline has been extended. RO will
send in her proposal this week
Open Data Workshop-Oliver Moran will be attending this event on behalf of
the group. It was agreed that Wikimedia Community Ireland should have a
strong presence at the event so SE will also attend and RO and EE might
attend as well
Other Events
JQ brought several interesting project ideas to the group:
UCC Volunteers Project-One of the largest databank of WWII veterans. It has
been digitised, but might not be open source
1916 Commemorations
Dublin Diocesan Archives-has many important documents relating to the Irish
State
JQ will also continue working on articles related to his thesis. He will be
meeting with some potential recruits this week
NUIG News
EE introduced SF to a Wiki News contact to move forward with the Journalism
Department collaboration
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 4 February at 6:30PM in
Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google
Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com
Meeting Minutes-21 January 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Joseph Quinn (JQ)
User Group
SE and RO have opened up a bank account for the group
SE will be submitting the grant report for Wiki Loves Monuments this week
Edit-a-thons
Engineers Week-8 February-This event will be a drop-in/introduction to
Wikipedia style event. We hope to also edit pages on Irish Women in STEM
National Museum of Ireland-Collins Barracks-14 February-This event will be
a drop-in/introduction to Wikipedia style event. We hope to also edit pages
on the Irish in WWI
March-Women’s History Month-RO is in contact with the Women’s Museum of
Ireland to possibly co-sponsor an event during March
Academic Writing Center-NUI Galway-9 March-this event could have a women’s
theme. Details have not been finalized
Conferences
RO is putting together a proposal for a talk to be given at the Digital
Preservation Conference being held by Digital Repository Ireland in June
The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 27 January at 7pm in Dublin. If
you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please
send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com
Meeting Minutes-14 January 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Clement McGann (CM)
User Group
EE contacted Wikimedia UK about domain-they are waiting to hear back from
the foundation
Edit-a-thons
Engineering Week-event in conjunction with Engineers Ireland has been
confirmed for Sunday 8 February at 11am. It will be an intro to
Wikipedia/Women in Engineering edit-a-thon. There is a possibility of
hosting more events with this group
RO and SE will be meeting with NMI Collins Barracks about a possible WWII
edit-a-thon in February
March is Women in History Month-possible event to be held
Conferences
DBpedia-9 February-Dublin-SE and RO will attend and attempt to recruit
CESI-28 February-Galway-EE has been given a 30 minute speaking slot. SE
will also attend
Digital Preservation-submission deadline 26 January-RO will write an
abstract for a paper on sharing and preservation using WLM as a case study
Other Events
Year in Irish Design-RO will contact about event in September
Maritime Trip-EE, SE, and Joseph Quinn will meet CM at the National
Maritime Museum to discuss ways for Wikimedia Community Ireland to work
with them.
NUIG News
SF had a meeting with one of the coordinators of the Journalism course.
They would like to explore the use of WikiNews as part of their 3rd year
program. EE will introduce SF to his contact at WikiNews
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 21 January at 6pm in Dublin.
If you would like to attend, either in person or virtually, please send an
email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com
Meeting Minutes-8 January 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Clement McGann (CM)
Joseph Quinn (JQ)
User Group
Sabina Bonnici is stepping back from the group so she will not be signing
the User Agreement. SHe will contact Wikimedia to change the contact info
to RO who will sign the agreement along with SE
EE will follow up on use of domain
WLM
SE sorted the uploaded images for 2014 and found that 46% of the monuments
captured had no previous image in Wikimedia
SE will continue to update and clean up the data. When it is completed EE
will set up a meeting with the DAHG
2015 Schedule
The schedule for 2015 has be finalised. Here is a brief overview:
6 edit-a-thons including one for Engineering Week and several with National
Museum of Ireland
Attendance at 4 conferences including the annual CESI Conference, EdTech
Conference, and Digital Preservation Conference
2015 Wiki Loves Monuments Contest
We hope to have several programs up and running at NUI Galway
We also hope to establish relationships with NMI Collins Barracks and the
National Maritime Museum
Budget
In conjunction with the report on the WLM grant SE will request to retain
unused funds to help to fund the project for the next year. The funds will
be used to acquire several wifi boxes and laptop computers for events, a
printing budget, and other miscellaneous costs
Recruiting
One of the main focuses of this year will be recruiting. JQ has some
contacts at NUIG, Glasnevin and Trinity that might be interested. A casual
meeting will be arranged in the next few weeks to “pitch” the group and try
to recruit more members
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 14 January at 6pm. If you
would like to attend, either in person or virtually, please send an email
to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com
Hi everyone!
The 4th annual WikiWomen's History Month is in March, coinciding with
Women's History Month. This event is cross-cultural, international, and
multi-lingual.
Please start planning your events (offline and online) to contribute
content to Wikipedia and related Wikimedia websites about women's history!
You can post your events and find resources on how to implement
edit-a-thons and workshops here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month
Any questions just let me know!
I look forward to your participation!
Sarah
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www.sarahstierch.com