Meeting Minutes-3 November 2015 Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Sharon Flynn (SF) Joseph Quinn (JQ) Gabriel Beecham (GB) Neeku Shamekhi (NS) User Group - Metrics-as part of our Chapter paperwork we had to compile metrics for our activities. SE and Rebecca calculated the metrics for all of our events. The information can be seen here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jabcs1pXjREjyoazuuma9LIt6-MfTG40Z-MxZjTRBm0/edit#gid=0>. - Survey-Rebecca made some more changes to the survey. It has gone out to the working group for consultation. - By-Laws-We completed the review of the by-laws. Here are the changes to the second half: - Change ‘in person’ to ‘present’. Define what ‘presen’ means-can be virtual vis Hangouts, Skype, ect. - Article 26-’registered letter’ for notification to be changed to some digital format, perhaps on Meta Wiki. - Article 28-’signed by 1/20th’-some digital format again, perhaps Meta Wiki. - Article 33-take out typo ‘or a member or joined a driver’. - Article 34-change ‘registered office’ to ‘mailing list’. Once the changes are made the by-laws will be sent out to the working group for a 1 week review. They will then be sent out on the mailing list for a 3 week consultation period. Edit-a-thons - PRONI-JQ is still working on organising an event in PRONI. He has Queen’s University Belfast as a backup. - NUI Galway training event-SF held a training event for NUI Galway staff. They registered on Wikipedia and then uploaded images of the campus building that they work in to Commons. As a result, 8 new images of NUI Galway campus buildings are on Commons. - JQ suggested a possible 1916 related edit-a-thon. Collins Barracks might be a good venue for this is conjunction with the opening of it’s 1916 exhibition. Conferences - SCI:COM15-the grant was approved for this event. SE and EE will attend on behalf of the group. - Malta-Rebecca will give a full report of the conference in Malta at the next meeting. WLM - The top ten images have been selected and forwarded to the international competition. The winning images can be viewed here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2015_winners#Ireland> . - The awards ceremony will take place at the Stags Head in Dublin on 9 November at 6:30pm. - SE has ordered the prints of the winning images for display during the awards ceremony. - A press release with the winners will go out on Friday morning. - An update with the contest stats was sent to the DAHG. Other Events - No news Misc - Vicipéid-SE replyed to an email about promoting Vicipéid naming SF and Oliver as contacts. SF will keep us updated. - Education Program-SE and SF will apply to be coordinators this week and notify Rebecca when it is complete. The next meeting will take place on Monday 16 November at 6:30pm in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to [email protected] -- Shannon ---------------------- Wikimedia Community Ireland Online: Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland> On Twitter: @WikimediaIE <https://twitter.com/WikimediaIE>
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