Meeting Minutes-16 March 2015

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Clem McGann (CM)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

User Group

The Outreach grant has been approved by Wikimedia Foundation. EE will source the Chromebooks and WiFi boxes.

Bank of Ireland has confirmed that our bank account is open. Still waiting for the cards to arrive.

Edit-a-thons

NUIG Training-We had a decent turnout. The edit-a-thon on women’s history will be scheduled during the week of April 13.

WITS will get back to RO after the 18th about hosting an event with us.

Coding Grace-RO met with them. They are interested in hosting workshops with us. They will also pitch us to run a workshop at the Inspire Conference in June.

Science Gallery Exhibition-Submission date is 23 April. RO will work up a submission to run a talk/edit-a-thon about Bletchley Park. EE will seperately pitch running a few cryptology workshops during August. RO will set up a meeting with the Science Gallery in the next 2 weeks.

Conferences

Edtech Conference-May-Sharon put her proposal for this conference in Google docs for everyone to comment on.

WLM

SE and EE will complete and submit the Heritage Grant this week. As part of the grant we would need to organise at least 5 photowalks during Heritage Week.

The new map is ¾ way done. Some of the points need to be re-converted. The 2014 list will be completed by the next meeting. Then we can start adding new points.

Miscellanious

Oliver submitted a position paper to the government on behalf of the group in regards to the Public Sector Information License. You can see the submission here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gufJf_QoyEehSqF-0MK2-WkOdDpV2WgoVA5RS95NGdY/edit.

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 25 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