Meeting Minutes-3 May 2017

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Dan Garry (DG)

User Group

• WLM Contractor

• Interview invitations to be sent out tonight to candidates

• EE and SE will conduct interviews-anyone else is welcome to attend

• Program Coordinator Update (RO)

• Met with contact at National Library of Ireland-staff member has been brought on to push towards more open licensing Offered to provide in house training on CC licensing.

• Contacted a member of the Digital Repository of Ireland-waiting to hear back.

• Trinity Library-planning another event around the Terry Pratchet collection. “4 May is the tentative date.

• Attended Creative Ireland Event run by Dublin City Council. The city is looking to collaborate with stakeholders to promote creative endeavours. Met with members of the crafting community looking to get more positive imagery of crafting out there. Attending their meeting on 14 May.

• Created a Draft Newsletter. Want to make it a monthly recurrence.

Edit-a-thon/Workshops

• Upcoming Workshops

• 24 May-Trinity College Dublin-2-5pm-Terry Pratchet Collection Workshop

• August-UCC-RO reported that Donna will possibly run another even in August. She also found another professor at UCC using Wikipedia

• Possible future events

• WLM editing workshop

• Library Association workshop

• Trinity faculty who are looking to work with Wikipedia in the classroom

• Vicipéid Workshop-SF spoke to contact in Galway. He would like to run a more informal event, with perhaps 405 people, at the end of August. Potential theme: Redressing the Balance-each participant finds an article that is meaningful to them to improve. Wants to run the entire workshop in Irish. RO suggested a pre-event training.

Conferences

• Upcoming Conferences

• July 5-6-Celtic Knot-Edinburgh-RO has registered and booked her flights and accommodation

• August 23-25 International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2017)-Galway-RO cannot attend. It is open to someone else to attend in her place.

WLM

• RO is still putting out feelers for an exhibition. Will contact some local artists for ideas.