Meeting Minutes-21 August 2014
Attendees:
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Sabina Bonnici (SB)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Education
-SF will be attending the EduWiki Conference in Edinburgh in October
-Two educators at NUI Galway are interested in getting a program up and running with some of their Master level students in Irish. SF will contact Alison about the gaps in coverage on Vicipéid
-SF found a page written by a Wikipedia editor about project and goals for Ireland around education and Wikipedia. SB attempted to contact but received no response. EE will reach out to him
Edit-a-Thons
-RO is still looking for a venue for Ada Lovelace Day
-Roy has been in contact with a lecturer in Advanced Information Skills in UCD who is doing a module on genealogical sketches of people from 1913/1916 and she’s trying to gauge our interest in assisting. SE will let Roy know that we are very interested in helping
-Roy was contacted by the Education Officer for National Council of Curriculum and Assessment about edit-a-thons in schools. EE will reach out to him
User Group
-SB followed up with coordinator via email. He said they should be looking at our application soon. It generally takes 3 weeks for a response
-The incorporation paperwork came through. RO and SE will set up a bank account after the launch
-We plan on giving a talk at the ODI meeting on 18 September at 6:30
Wiki Loves Monuments
-Launch Speech-SB will will be the emcee, SE will speak about contest, EE will speak about Open Knowledge, RO will speak about Wikimedia Ireland
-RO will create a powerpoint of images for the launch
-Website-SE will get the multi-lingual app working this weekend and will post the 2 pages SF had translated
-Photowalks information will be added to the site
-EE and SE will replace the images on the banner with monument images
-SB will add a terms and conditions page
-RO translated the central notice on Wikipedia into Irish and changed the start date for our contest
-PR-SB will have a briefing call with the PR company tomorrow. RO has agreed to be the media contact
-Marketing-Roy sent over stats for the past month-but we think they include admin access. SE will check the settings on wordpress to be sure they are not being counted
-We have 3 confirmed photowalks: Skerries, Cork City , and Drogheda
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 4 September @ 6pm. If you would like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com.