Meeting Minutes-17 October 2016

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)

Brian McKenzie (BM)

User Group

• SE reviewed the budget and schedule for the Simple Annual Plan Grant with the group. She will submit the grant to the foundation early next week.

Edit-a-thon/Workshops

• UCD Recap-RO held a Intro to Wikipedia with a class in UCD. She used an interactive approach, which seemed to work well. The edit-a-thon will take place on 23 November from 10am-1pm and is open to the public. The students will be working on their articles and creating tutorials and podcasts. Other participants are encouraged to work on articles on notable UCD alumni and staff. RO will create a page for the event.

• SF will be hosting a Wikipedia awareness activity at NUI Galway on 21 October. Images of the campus will be uploaded during the event. SF will create a project page.

• BA is planning a workshop in Maynooth on 8 March to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Conferences

• DCU Conference Workshop-11-12 November-RO will host a workshop at the History of Science, Technology and Medicine conference.

WLM

• Judging for the contest is still progressing.

• The final writing event takes place at the Science Gallery on 18 October at 6:30pm.

Misc

• EU Copyright Reform-The group was sent an email will guidance notes on the stance of Wikimedia on the Copyright Reforms. Some issues with the tone of the statement were raised in the meeting. It was decided that we would not release a statement at this time.

• CDC email-The group received an email from an employee at the CDC in America about participation at a conference in 2018. SE will reply to the email.

• Open Data strategy meeting-RO was invited to a meeting on Open Data on 25 October. RO and SE will attend.