Meeting Minutes-
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Clem McGann (CM)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Joseph Quinn (JQ)
User Group
The Grant for the remaining funds has been submitted. There have been
several endorsements but no comments as of yet.
Edit-a-thons
RO attended a meeting of Girl Geek Dinners and gave a brief talk about the
group. They seem interested in working with us.
JQ contacted PRONI about possible WWI themed edit-a-thon. He will meake
sure to reitreate that we are working in conjunction with Wikimedia UK.
Conferences
Oliver attended the Open Data meeting held in Dublin. He will prepare a
paper on behalf of the group is refernce to copyright of government data.
He also indicated that there will probably be opportunities for the group
to run workshops or give talks at future events.
WLM
SE created a list of work to be done for the 2015 competition. This
includes expanding the monuments list, reaching out to new partners,
creating new maps on the website, planning the awards event, selecting
judges, planning photowalks and applying for grants to fund the event.
SE will write the grants and create a cheat sheet with stats from 2014
competition.
Other Events
We have scheduled our first Meetup. It will take place on 20 February at
7pm at the Lord Edward Pub. The Meetup group can be found here.
The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 3 March 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