Meeting Minutes-16 October 2014
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Clem McGann (CM)
Sabina Bonnici (SB)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
User Group
Still no word from the committee about becoming a User Group-SB will
contact them again
Wikimedia branded materials that we requested from Wikimedia UK are on the
way (thanks!)
Wiki Loves Monuments
SB set up a Facebook event for the Awards Ceremony. Invitation has been
sent to Minister Humphreys
Semi-Final images have been coming in from the judges-all images due by 17
October. SE will contact all of the semi-finalists via their talk pages to
obtain email addresses
SB will follow up with judges about attendance to awards ceremony
Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht might be willing to fund an
exhibition of the winning photographs in the winners locality
Edit-a-Thons
RO created pages on Wikipedia for the Ada Lovelace and UCD edit-a-thons
Wikimedia UK contacted us to provide support for upcoming edit-a-thons. RO
is in contact with them
SE will look into grants for edit-a-thons from Wikimedia. EE will contact
the Irish Computing Society and Python Ireland about grants
Misc
CM was on TG4 on Sunday speaking about Ireland’s Maritime history during
WWII. It can be viewed on the TG4 player online
EE will have the CVCRM software up for the next meeting
Several members of the group plan to attend the Open Here conference in
Dublin on 14-16 November
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 22 October @ 7pm. If you
would like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.
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