Hi all,
sorry I won't be able to make it due to prior commitments but I am still very keen on being part of the project. Since I won't be at the meeting, I would like to mention a few things in the hope of starting some discussions.
My main interests are to encourage more educators to use Wikimedia tools and to help people to release more music/media into the commons. I would like to achieve this by getting funding to put on demonstrations which would include information on how to find, use and remix CC licensed music and showcasing the open-source software one could use to do this. I have many years' experience with the Fedora operating system coupled with Planet CCRMA's multimedia software patch.
I am interested in using Wikimedia to help introduce open, shared resources to educators. I would also like funding to do demonstrations for, and have meetings with, teachers. I am interested in raising awareness of evolution by natural selection in Irish classrooms and would also like to encourage content generation in relation to this.
Irish language projects would be important for an Irish Wikimedia so that should be discussed.
A good publicity tool would be a competition involving music, photography and/or art. All entries could be released under CC license and the winners promoted on the Irish Wikimedia website. Wikimedia doesn't seem to have much in the way of music storage - discuss?
I hope this can help start some discussions and begin to focus on finding some goals that this project will have.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Conor.