Meeting Minutes-4 February 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Clem McGann (CM)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Joseph Quinn (JQ)
Bryan McClure (BM)
We welcomed a new member, Bryan McClure, to the group
User Group
As a result of the hacking of wikilovesmonuments.ie Google is now marking info@wikilovesmonuments as spam. The easiest way to get around this is to created an email that is hosted by Google. The cost is €4 per month to be covered by EE until we have external funding
WLM Report has been accepted by the grants committee. It can be viewed here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Ireland_Community/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_Ireland_2014/Report. To request to use the remaining funds we need to file another grant proposal within the next 30 days. SE will file the grant
The USer Group Agreement has been amended. RO and SE will sign on behalf of the group
Edit-a-thons
Engineers Ireland-8 February-Currently 14 are registered on Eventbrite. RO sent out a press release for event
WWI/Collins Barracks-14 February-RO will send out press release on Monday. JQ will put up flyers at Trinity and put it out on the Trinity mailing list
Cochrane Collaboration reached out to us via WIkimedia UK to run a training session at their symposium on 23-24 April 2015. SE will reach out to the Cochrane contact
Irish Design is advertising an edit-a-thon in Limerick in December. RO will reach out to the organisers to see if they need support
Writing Centre at NUIG-they would like to run the event in two stages: an evening session as an intro to Wikipedia and then the edit-a-thon at a later date. SF would like to help run the event but needs support. SE and EE will put together a resource pack. SE has also said she will travel to Galway to help run the event if necessary
Conferences
DRI Digital Conference-RO has put in proposal for talk
Education
SF will edit education Outreach Page to update the contact info. EE and SE will then update with event info
Other Events
PubhD-RO is starting a group to present PhD research in the pub atmosphere. The group discussed whether this could be aligned with the work we are doing (outreach, education, ect). In principle we agreed to co-sponsor events and use them to recruit
Misc
UCC Volunteers-JQ is creating a database. Will contact UCC about creating a Wikipedia page for the project
The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 10 February 2015 in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com