Meeting Minutes-16 February 2016 Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) Sharon Flynn (SF) Joseph Quinn (JQ) Gabriel Beecham (GB) Oliver Moran (OM) User Group - By-laws - Voting took place on the by-laws. The tally was as follows: - SE-Yay - EE-Yay - RO-Yay - SF-Yay - JQ-Yay - GB-Yay - OM-Yay The vote was unanimously in favor of passage. - Survey - RO has account with Qualtrics to run the survey. - It has been translated into Irish. GB and OM will look over it. - It is scheduled to go live on Monday 22 February. - SE and RO will promote it on social media and the mailing list. Edit-a-thons - PRONI - The event went very well with about 10 participants. Though we did not get a lot of editing done, we did make some connections in PRONI and Queen’s University Belfast who are interested in running more events. - Art+Feminism - This is a virtual event which we will promote to our users. Conferences - Museum Next-April - RO will present a workshop at this event - Ed-Tech-end of May - SF would like to present a workshop at this conference building on the talk she gave last year. - It was suggested that the workshop either cover just the basics or the use of the Education extension, depending on the allotted time. WLM - No News WLE - John Cummings (WMUK and WIkimedian in Residence at UNESCO) is interested in running a joint Wiki Loves Earth contest with Ireland and UK. - It was agreed that we have no one to spare at the moment to run it, but we could assist the UK if they wanted to run it. - RO will stay in touch with WMUK Other Events - Science Gallery - EE has confirmed the date of 11 May from 6:30-8 for our next event. - The theme is Future Farms and we are looking for speakers. - - NUIGalway - SF confirmed the photowalk will take place at the end of March and they will be uploaded to Commons. --Shannon Eichelberger, Chair ---------------------- 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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