Meeting Minutes-16 February 2016

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Joseph Quinn (JQ)

Gabriel Beecham (GB)

Oliver Moran (OM)

User Group

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By-laws -

Voting took place on the by-laws. The tally was as follows: -

SE-Yay -

EE-Yay -

RO-Yay -

SF-Yay -

JQ-Yay -

GB-Yay -

OM-Yay

The vote was unanimously in favor of passage.

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Survey -

RO has account with Qualtrics to run the survey. -

It has been translated into Irish. GB and OM will look over it. -

It is scheduled to go live on Monday 22 February. -

SE and RO will promote it on social media and the mailing list.

Edit-a-thons

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PRONI -

The event went very well with about 10 participants. Though we did not get a lot of editing done, we did make some connections in PRONI and Queen’s University Belfast who are interested in running more events. -

Art+Feminism -

This is a virtual event which we will promote to our users.

Conferences

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Museum Next-April -

RO will present a workshop at this event -

Ed-Tech-end of May -

SF would like to present a workshop at this conference building on the talk she gave last year. -

It was suggested that the workshop either cover just the basics or the use of the Education extension, depending on the allotted time.

WLM

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No News

WLE

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John Cummings (WMUK and WIkimedian in Residence at UNESCO) is interested in running a joint Wiki Loves Earth contest with Ireland and UK. -

It was agreed that we have no one to spare at the moment to run it, but we could assist the UK if they wanted to run it. -

RO will stay in touch with WMUK

Other Events

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Science Gallery -

EE has confirmed the date of 11 May from 6:30-8 for our next event. -

The theme is Future Farms and we are looking for speakers. - -

NUIGalway -

SF confirmed the photowalk will take place at the end of March and they will be uploaded to Commons.

--Shannon Eichelberger, Chair ---------------------- Wikimedia Community Ireland

Online: Wikimedia Community Ireland http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland On Twitter: @WikimediaIE https://twitter.com/WikimediaIE