Meeting Minutes-10 August 2017 Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) Sharon Flynn (SF) User Group - Simple APG-the committee approved the reallocation of funds to pay PRSI for Rebecca. There is a meeting scheduled with WMF to discuss our progress so far. - The website (wikimedia.ie) is live. EE requested that Google Analytics be put on the site. - Project Coordinator Update (RO) - Working on added content to the website. - A wikidata expert is coming to Ireland in late August to give a series of talks on the Article Placeholder and how it can be implemented in Vicipéid. - DRI September workshop information has been posted online. The event will be on Creative Commons Licensing. Looking at flyer created WMDE to use at event. - The UCD workshops for 2017 have been confirmed for 11 October and 22 November, both at 10am. The theme this year is Irish Women. - An editing event will be held at TOG in Dublin on 30 August from 7-9. - Prinitng-ordered the WLM flyer, Vinyl Banner, Table top banner, and other flyers. Workshops - GAZE Workshop-5 August-we had a few participants. Some articles were updated and logos for the event uploaded to Wikipedia. The organisers are interested in hosting future events. Upcoming Workshops - TOG Workshop-30 August 7-9 pm - DRI Workshops-5 September, 17 October, 16 November - UCD Workshops-11 October and 22 November - NLI-September-training for librarians in Creative Commons Licensing Possible Future Events - Accenture Pride Event-looks like we’ll be putting this off until next year. EE will stay on top of it. - Wiki Science-November-Science Gallery seems receptive to hosting an event. RO is working on getting prizes and other sponsors. EE advised that Accenture might be interested. A collaboration with WIkimedia UK is also not out of the question. - Vicipéid Workshop-Galway-SF spoke to a few organisers. Looking forward to October for a possible event. Still working on organising a train the trainers workshop. Conferences - No news WLM - Launch at Archeaofest-26 August 11-4. - Website-RO created a sub page on wikimedia.ie. EE will redirect wikilovesmonuments.ie there. - SE will contact the international team about the Upload Wizard/Wikidata information. - RO will craft a press release. -- Shannon ---------------------- Wikimedia Community Ireland Chair - Shannon Eichelberger Project Coordinator - Rebecca O'Neill Online: Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie> On Twitter: @WikimediaIE <https://twitter.com/WikimediaIE> On Facebook: Wikimedia Ireland <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIreland> On Instagram: wikimediaie <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediaie/> On Meetup: Wikimedia Community Ireland Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-Community-Ireland-Meetup/>
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