Meeting Minutes-30 July 2014
Attendees:
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Roy Murray (RM)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Wikimania
-RO will compose a blog post about the event for the website
Edit-a-Thons
-We missed the deadline for the Collins Barracks talk. RO is going to see if we can still have a presence there
-The Ada Lovelace edit-a-thon is still searching for a venue
-RM will reach out to librarians about organising edit-a-thons
-SF will reach out in NUI Galway about edit-a-thons
User Group
-Planned meetup with user group facilitator at Wikimania did not happen
Wiki Loves Monuments
-E-vites were sent out to launch event. Launch was also registered on Heritage Week
-Insurance has been secured. All events for the next year are covered
-37 new monuments for Cork City have been added to the maps on the website
-SE did a few test runs uploading images and all seemed to be working fine. Categories for the contest are now activated
-The Awards Ceremony date and venue have been confirmed. The ceremony will be held at Pearse Library on Friday 7 November from 2-5
-RO is moving forward with the Marketing plan, interacting with influencers on social media
-EE came up with a plan for the judging process. Each judge will select their top 7 pictures to move forward to the semi finals. They will then pick their top 10 out of the semi finalists. That should allow enough overlap to pronounce a winner. If there is a tie the organising committee will choose a winner
-SF will try to get volunteers to translate some of the contest pages into Irish
-SE has ordered stickers to hand out at the launch. In lieu of flyers it was decided to print out business cards instead
-EE will contact framers to cost the printing and framing of the winning photgraphs to sell as a fund raiser
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 21 August @ 6pm. If you would like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com.