Meeting Minutes-12 May 2015

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Clem McGann (CM)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

User Group

No news on the domain name.

Edit-a-thons

RO has confirmed the Women in STEM edit-a-thon at the Science Gallery on 4 June. It will be co-hosted by WITS.

Joseph is still attempting to get in touch with his contact at PRONI.

Conferences

DRHA conference has been moved to early September. We are still waiting to hear if we will run a workshop.

WLM

EE and SE met with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The run down of the meeting is as follows:

They have confirmed their support for this year’s contest.

They would like us to launch at Archeofest in Merrion Square during heritage week. They are willing to give us a grant for PR costs.

They are also interested in Wiki Loves Earth and would like to meet with us after the contest is completed to discuss uses for the data.

RO was contact via Facebook by the administrator of meathheritage.com asking about attribution for WLM images. She will have them contact us via email and EE will respond.

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 19 May at 6:30 in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com