Meeting Minutes-6 October 2015

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Joseph Quinn (JQ)

User Group

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Reviewed the chapter paperwork status. Discussions on by-laws will begin at the next meeting.

Edit-a-thons

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UCD-Tomorrow RO will run a training session for a class using the Wikipedia Education Program with SE also attending. RO explained how the Education Program works. JQ might have another course interested in using it. He will get back to us. -

Irish Year of Design-the event is this weekend in Limerick. SE, RO, SF and Oliver will be attending. -

PRONI-JQ got in touch with his contact at PRONI about an event in early 2016. PRONI asked for some dates. The group decided to offer any Thursday in February or the first 2 weeks in March.

Conferences

No News

WLM

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We ended the contest with 1661 images (22nd) uploaded by 294 users (6th). -

The pre-sorted of the images has begun. They are due to be finished by 12 October. The remaining images will then be forwarded to the judges. -

RO will create an invite for the awards event. -

EE will be building easels to display the images at the awards event. -

A volunteer from the UK has done some work with the categorization of the images from the 2015 competition. He has also added images to existing articles. Due to this work, 1% of the new images are currently being used. (THANKS!!!)

Science Gallery

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TRAUMA-EE heard back from the Science Gallery and they would like us to suggest dates for our next event. EE will suggest a night during the week on 17-23 January. Once we have a date secured we will begin to recruit speakers.

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 13 October 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