Meeting Minutes-14 January 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Clement McGann (CM)
User Group
EE contacted Wikimedia UK about domain-they are waiting to hear back from
the foundation
Edit-a-thons
Engineering Week-event in conjunction with Engineers Ireland has been
confirmed for Sunday 8 February at 11am. It will be an intro to
Wikipedia/Women in Engineering edit-a-thon. There is a possibility of
hosting more events with this group
RO and SE will be meeting with NMI Collins Barracks about a possible WWII
edit-a-thon in February
March is Women in History Month-possible event to be held
Conferences
DBpedia-9 February-Dublin-SE and RO will attend and attempt to recruit
CESI-28 February-Galway-EE has been given a 30 minute speaking slot. SE
will also attend
Digital Preservation-submission deadline 26 January-RO will write an
abstract for a paper on sharing and preservation using WLM as a case study
Other Events
Year in Irish Design-RO will contact about event in September
Maritime Trip-EE, SE, and Joseph Quinn will meet CM at the National
Maritime Museum to discuss ways for Wikimedia Community Ireland to work
with them.
NUIG News
SF had a meeting with one of the coordinators of the Journalism course.
They would like to explore the use of WikiNews as part of their 3rd year
program. EE will introduce SF to his contact at WikiNews
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 21 January at 6pm in Dublin.
If you would like to attend, either in person or virtually, please send an
email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com