Meeting Minutes-23 February 2017
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
User Group
Simple APG
We received the decision from the committee. They have recommended that we be funded the full amount minus one contract position. Over all they were pleased with our preparation and the grant itself though they did have some reservations about hiring practices, our lack of experience managing employees and lack of experience with grants.
The Foundation also had concerns about the potential lobbying issues with the WLM contract position. Several suggestions were made on how to relieve the Foundation’s concerns. SE and RO will be meeting with the Foundation on 1 March to discuss the recommendations and plot out the process to move forward.
It was decided by the group that we will request the WLM contractor over the WLE contractor. Adjustments will be made in the job spec to remove any instances that could be considered lobbying of the government.
SE, SF and Eugene met on 21 February to discuss whether to have an open hiring call for the FTE position. It was decided that, due to time constraints and issues with finding someone more qualified, we would not have an open hiring call for the FTE position but we will for the WLM contractor position.
RO has starting putting out feelers for the Accountant position in the Simple APG.
Edit-a-thon/Workshops
#EditWikiLit was held at UCC on 8 February. We are awaiting stats from Donna Alexander.
Upcoming Schedule:
28 February-DCU Library-2-5-This is being organised by the librarian at DCU with assistance from RO. 9 people are currently registered.
8 March-NUI Maynooth-International Women’s Day workshop-2:30-5:30. This event is being organised by Brian McKenzie. It will take place in the computer lab at Maynooth and is open to the public, though they have to pre-register. RO will assist on the day. A page for the event is in the process of being created.
9 March-NUI Galway-International Women’s Day-10:30-3:30. The University is providing lunch for this event. RO will travel to Galway to assist SF with this event. SF reported that registrations are continuing. Two images have been created and uploaded to Commons to advertise this event. As part of the week long event SF will also be presenting a talk on the lack of women on Wikipedia.
15 March-Trinity College Library-8:30-1:30-workshop celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Berkeley Library. The event will be open to Trinity students and staff only. RO is assisting with organisation of this event.
June 2017-possible UCC event
Conferences
GLAM Wiki Conference-Paris-RO attended this conference. It had 32 attendees giving lightning talks about different aspects of GLAM and how to work with GLAMs. There were session about Wiki Data and GLAMs releasing datasets that we might be able to apply to our WLM data. RO also had many conversations about how we can bring the Irish language into the Celtic Languages conversation. Also about how we can embrace the ‘emerging community’ title and use it to our advantage. RO will reach out about how to promote ourselves as an ‘emerging community’.
Upcoming:
Celtic Knot Conference-5-6 July 2017-10am-5pm-Edinburgh-RO scheduled to attend-The event will focus on Celtic Languages and Indigenous Languages, showcasing innovative approaches to open education, open knowledge and open data that support and grow language communities.
WLM
The grant report is almost completed.
Misc
As we are speaking with the Foundation on 1 March about the Simple APG it was decided that we will meet again next week on 2 March at 7:30pm.