Meeting Minutes-29 September 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Neeku Shamekhi (NS)
We welcomed a new member to the group. Neeku Shamekhi.
User Group
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Chapter Work-Work was done over the past week to move forward with
applying for Chapter status:
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EE created a draft of bylaws for the group which can be seen here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland_Bylaws>.
The working group will look at it and discuss it in the meetings over the
next few weeks, making changes as needed. SE will look at LLP
agreement to
see if that needs to be incorporated into the bylaws
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SE created a draft list of activities the group have participated in
which can be seen here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/140h3R-CpK21T0kU2-g0Q3i17Bg76_XL8KuS4qFzekoQ/edit>.
She will flesh it out with more details over the next few weeks.
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RO cleaned up the website, creating an archive of past events. The
missing events from the above list will be added.
Edit-a-thons
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UCD-7 October-Intro to Wikipedia using the Wikipedia Extension Course.
the edit-a-thon will take place on 28 October.
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Irish Year of Design-Limerick-10 October-The project page has been
created and can be seen here
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ireland_IxDA_Limerick_Irish_Design_Hackathon_October_2015>.
Conferences
No news
WLM
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As of the meeting we had 1480 images (20th) uploaded by 273 users (5th).
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The award ceremony will be held on 9 November at 6:30 in Stags Head Pub
in Dublin.
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The presorting of the images will begin shortly after the contest ends.
Each volunteer will take a few hundred images to download and sort through.
The images will go to the judges no later than 12 October.
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EE responded to an email from Photocall Ireland. He set up a meeting for
13 October to discuss how we can work together.
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We have had a lot of discussions about the Ireland monument pages on
Wikipedia. It was agreed that they need a complete overhaul. RO will create
an outline of the issues.
Other Events
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Science Gallery-EE has sent an email inquiring about the next CItizen
Science meetup.
The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 6 October at 6:30pm in Dublin.
If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts,
please send an email to wikimediairel...@gmail.com
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