Meeting Minutes-4 October 2016
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)
Brian McKenzie (BM)
User Group
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Simple APG-SE reported that the application needs to be in by 1 November
to have access to funds in January 2017. SE, EE, and RO will meet on 8
October to work on the grant and expand the schedule for 2017. SE will
report back to the group at the next meeting.
Edit-a-thon/Workshops
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UCD workshop-12 October 10am-RO will run the initial workshop.
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Herstory-SE and RO met with the Director of the Herstory Project which
aims to create biographies of Irish women who have been excluded from
history. There is a possibility of workshops to put biographies on
Wikipedia along with images, illustrations and materials to be used in
schools. RO and SE will keep in contact with the group.
Conferences
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No news
WLM
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Contest ended with 710 images uploaded by 119 participants.
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Judging-the members of the user group who attended this meeting will
vote for the winning images. Each will choose 20 images for the main
contest and 5 for the 1916 contest for the semifinals. The top 10 and top 3
respectively will be chosen from the semifinalists.
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Awards Celebration-the Liquor Rooms is a potential venue for this event.
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Writing Contest Events
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NUI Galway-we had a small turnout but we did get 4 new members
registered and contacts for future events at NUI Galway.
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Dublin Science Gallery-This event will take place on 18 October from
6:30-8.
Misc
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Maynooth IP access-RO conducted some research about the IP block at
Maynooth and found that this type of blockage is not uncommon. NUI Galway
was also blocked. She did discover a way to work around it.
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10,000 Challenge-RO was contacted about participation in this challenge
to write 10,000 articles on the British Isles, which includes Ireland. She
began a discussion to get us involved and to also promote our writing
event.
-- Shannon Eichelberger
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