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@gmail.com.