Meeting Minutes-21 October 2015

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Neeku Shamekhi (NS)

User Group

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By-laws-We made it through more than half of the bylaws which can be found here. Here are some notes from the discussion: -

After the discussion of the bylaws in finished it will be put out on the mailing list for comment. We would also like to allow the mailing list members vote on acceptance. -

Article 1-Not sure about the name Wikimedia Éire-will consulte Oliver -

Article 2-Asks for physical address of chapter. As we won’t have an office, this was deleted -

Article 6 Section 2.5-There was discussion about having to be an Associate Member for 6 months before being a full member. No consensus was reached, so it remains in for now. -

Article 16 Section 2-We discussed a way to confirm invitation to the AGM. EE will look into it. -

We will continue the discussion of the bylaws at the next meeting.

Edit-a-thons

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No News

Conferences

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SCI:COM-SE will finish the grant and submit it by the end of the week.

WLM

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One judge has returned semi-final picks. SE contacted the judges to remind of the 24 October deadline. -

The PR company contacted us about awards promotion. We will get back to them next week.

Other Events

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Science Gallery-EE has confirmed the date for the TRAUMA meeting for 20 January at 6:30. EE will start recruiting speakers.

Misc

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Vicipéid-SE will forward on the contact details of SF to the researcher. -

Education Program-It was agreed that SF and SE will apply for course co-ordinator rights. The application will be put in after Rebecca returns so she can endorse it.

Due to Mid-Term break next week we will not have a meeting. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 3 November at 6:30pm in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com