Meeting Minutes-4 October 2016

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)

Brian McKenzie (BM)

User Group

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Simple APG-SE reported that the application needs to be in by 1 November to have access to funds in January 2017. SE, EE, and RO will meet on 8 October to work on the grant and expand the schedule for 2017. SE will report back to the group at the next meeting.

Edit-a-thon/Workshops

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UCD workshop-12 October 10am-RO will run the initial workshop. -

Herstory-SE and RO met with the Director of the Herstory Project which aims to create biographies of Irish women who have been excluded from history. There is a possibility of workshops to put biographies on Wikipedia along with images, illustrations and materials to be used in schools. RO and SE will keep in contact with the group.

Conferences

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No news

WLM

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Contest ended with 710 images uploaded by 119 participants. -

Judging-the members of the user group who attended this meeting will vote for the winning images. Each will choose 20 images for the main contest and 5 for the 1916 contest for the semifinals. The top 10 and top 3 respectively will be chosen from the semifinalists. -

Awards Celebration-the Liquor Rooms is a potential venue for this event. -

Writing Contest Events -

NUI Galway-we had a small turnout but we did get 4 new members registered and contacts for future events at NUI Galway. -

Dublin Science Gallery-This event will take place on 18 October from 6:30-8.

Misc

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Maynooth IP access-RO conducted some research about the IP block at Maynooth and found that this type of blockage is not uncommon. NUI Galway was also blocked. She did discover a way to work around it. -

10,000 Challenge-RO was contacted about participation in this challenge to write 10,000 articles on the British Isles, which includes Ireland. She began a discussion to get us involved and to also promote our writing event.

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