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
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
UCD workshop-12 October 10am-RO will run the initial workshop.
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
No news
WLM
Contest ended with 710 images uploaded by 119 participants.
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.
Awards Celebration-the Liquor Rooms is a potential venue for this event.
Writing Contest Events
NUI Galway-we had a small turnout but we did get 4 new members registered and contacts for future events at NUI Galway.
Dublin Science Gallery-This event will take place on 18 October from 6:30-8.
Misc
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.
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.