Meeting Minutes-3 March 2015

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

User Group

Several members of the Grants Advisory Committee have already said yes to our outreach grant. There have also been requests for more specific metrics and measures of success. SE will add them to the grant.

The info@wikilovesmonuments.ie has been set up. It was agreed that it should be forwarded to the existing gmail account.

Edit-a-thons

NUIG Training/Edit-a-Thon-Training has been confirmed for 10 March with the edit-a-thon tentatively scheduled for 13 April. SF will create the project page on Wikipedia and promote it through the university.

RO is working on a possible collaboration with WITS event over the next few months.

RO is also meeting with members of Coding Grace to organize a workshop with them.

The IDAT is still keen on having an event around the Year of Design. RO will continue to coordinate.

Conferences

CESI Conference-Eugene spoke at this conference over the weekend, which SE and SF also attended. It was a good promotion event for the group with us gaining 10 followers on Twitter and several interested groups.

EdTech Conference-May-The call for papers has come out for this conference. SF will craft a proposal to present a talk and run it past the group.

WLM

The 2014 list is almost completely cleaned up with only 25 or so points yet to be confirmed.

SE will supervise the start of re-mapping all the points.

Both RO and Eugene looked at the data from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and it looks promising. It is very well structured and accessible. There are some issues with some of the buildings being on private land, but they are not insurmountable. RO is the ongoing contact with DAHG regarding this dataset. Eugene and RO also agree that there is enough info here to put together an edit-a-thon, perhaps in the summer, to promote the competition.

RO contacted WMUK about the pre-screening of images for the judges. They gave us some great hints that we can use this year.

There is no meeting next week. The next meeting will take place on Monday 16 March at 7pm in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com