Meeting Minutes-23 August 2016

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)

Donna Alexander (DA)

Joseph Quinn (JQ)

User Group

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We welcomed a new member to the group, Donna Alexander (DA).

Edit-a-thons

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UCD student workshop-10 October. -

DA will be running an edit-a-thon at UCC in February-date pending. -

JQ would like to run another event at PRONI around the anniversary of the death of Willie Redmond (June 2017). -

JQ will contact DUblin City Council about running an event at the archive.

Conferences

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History of Science, Technology and Medicine-11 November-RO is running a workshop.

WLM

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Website is back up and running. EE fixed the map issues and SE has finished adding all of the map points. -

SE created the writing contest wiki page. Suggested articles need to be added. -

Launch-27 August 11-4 as part of Archaeofest in Merrion Square. RO, EE, and SE will attend. -

NUI Galway writing event dates week of September 26-30. SF will check with library. -

Science Gallery writing event dates week of October 17-21. EE will check availability. -

Judges need to be recruited. SE is open to suggestions. -

SE spoke with Cian from MKC about the PR. The meeting notes: -

8-10 working hours covered by budget -

Press releases: -

Monday after launch -

Mid contest -

Awards celebration-November -

We will target writing contest in Galway in Dublin with specific PR

Misc

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SF was contacted by a professor at Maynooth. She will reach out. -

The group was contacted by WMF about an interview on the Innovation Show. They requested guidance on the state of Open Knowledge in Ireland and anything we wanted to promote. The interview was recorded. They will contact us when it is published.

Meeting Minutes-6 September 2016

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)

Donna Alexander (DA)

Brian McKenzie (BM)

User Group

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We welcomed a new member to the group, Brian McKenzie (BM).

Edit-a-thons

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UCD student workshop-10 October. -

UCC workshop-February-date pending. -

NUI Galway library is interested in running 4 events this year: -

WLM writing event 27 or 28 September -

Another workshop before Christmas -

And 2 in the second term -

SF contacted the NUI Galway 1916 Scholar in Residence about the 1916 component of WLM. He was interested in getting involved and will promote the contest. SF will meet with him this week.

Conferences

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History of Science, Technology and Medicine-11 November-RO is running a workshop.

WLM

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Only 34 images uploaded so far. The website did not have clear instructions on how to upload the images to Commons. SE has addressed that. -

RO experimented with Facebook promotion in the past week with a fair bit of success. She will promoted a WLM post every week until the end of the contest. -

Launch recap-it was a lovely day but very slow. Our tent was set apart from the rest, so we did have many visitors. We need to discuss how to draw in more visitors next year. -

NUI Galway writing date-either 27 or 28 September. SF will confirm this week. -

Science Gallery writing date-EE contacted SG today about week of 17-21 October. -

Judges-KF and RO have some leads.

Misc

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KF is in contact with a colleague at UCD about a Vicipéid workshop. She will keep us updated. -

BM attempted to set up a course on the WIkipedia Education Extension. He was contacted by the Education Department and was told it was not supported outside of the US and Canada. RO has worked with the extension here. She will collaborate with BM to resolve this issue.

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