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
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By-laws
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Voting took place on the by-laws. The tally was as follows:
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SE-Yay
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EE-Yay
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RO-Yay
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SF-Yay
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JQ-Yay
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GB-Yay
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OM-Yay
The vote was unanimously in favor of passage.
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Survey
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RO has account with Qualtrics to run the survey.
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It has been translated into Irish. GB and OM will look over it.
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It is scheduled to go live on Monday 22 February.
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SE and RO will promote it on social media and the mailing list.
Edit-a-thons
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PRONI
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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.
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Art+Feminism
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This is a virtual event which we will promote to our users.
Conferences
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Museum Next-April
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RO will present a workshop at this event
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Ed-Tech-end of May
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SF would like to present a workshop at this conference building on
the talk she gave last year.
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It was suggested that the workshop either cover just the basics or
the use of the Education extension, depending on the allotted time.
WLM
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No News
WLE
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John Cummings (WMUK and WIkimedian in Residence at UNESCO) is interested
in running a joint Wiki Loves Earth contest with Ireland and UK.
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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.
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RO will stay in touch with WMUK
Other Events
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Science Gallery
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EE has confirmed the date of 11 May from 6:30-8 for our next event.
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The theme is Future Farms and we are looking for speakers.
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NUIGalway
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SF confirmed the photowalk will take place at the end of March and
they will be uploaded to Commons.
--Shannon Eichelberger, Chair
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