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@gmail.com