Hi all, It's great to hear such enthusiastic responses. I think we'd all agree that collaborating with the UK people on this would be wonderful, so thank you Andrew, Thomas and David for your posts. We seem to have myself, Oliver, Cary and Aisling as confirmed Irish interested so we still need a few more people. I see some University College Cork people are working on Irish Creative Commons licensing already [ http://creativecommons.org/international/ie/ ]. That might be a good place to contact to get law-savvy people on the team. I can contact them if that sounds appropriate to everyone - ? Suggestions welcome... Aside from getting more people, we need to consider drafting some founding documents - a mission statement, bylaws, etc. Perhaps we could get access to the UK team's documents as an initial step. Kind Regards, Conor Wao.

Just noticed I address this to Conor, actually it's too all. Oliver ________________________________ From: Rannpháirtí Anaithnid <wiki_ra(a)yahoo.ie> To: Wikimedia IE <wikimediaie(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thu, 22 July, 2010 11:07:48 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia IE] Ready To Go? Conor, I think getting in touch with the Creative Commons guys in Cork would be a good idea (similarly spirited stuff and all that). I'm based in Cork, if they want to meet someone face-to-face but if you are willing to contact them and hoodwink them into acting as legal aid then I think that would be a great. As Cary says, a meet-up might be a good step. To keep the ball moving while we have some momentum, what say people to setting a date and place for a meet-up? A date a couple of weeks from now? That way we can give plenty of notice, advertise well and organise anything that needs to be done in advance. September 4th? That's six weeks from now. Sorry for offering a date that past the end of next month but anything before the end of August is out for me and I would *really* like to attend. Dublin, I imagine, would be the most practical location (loathe as I am to admit it)? A Saturday? An afternoon, so people can travel up and return home the same day? A city centre or somewhere out on the DART line? It might be easier for folks travelling by car to park if it was out of town. Dún Laoghaire? I'm thinking a 2:00pm lunch somewhere followed by a chat in the snug of some bar, with a formal-ish meeting (i.e. something with an "agenda") somewhere in between? Thomas Dalton, from Wikimedia UK, would you be good to attend and give us some advice from your experience? Thomas Ralph volunteered last year to act as a media contact for Ireland. (Good idea to have an OTSR person in that role IMHO, so no complaints here.) Could you attend also (are you still on the list?), if only to have key persons present? Aside from just meeting with people, having lunch and chatting, two items I'd like to throw onto an agenda would be: * A Q&A session from Thomas Ralph on Wikimedia UK, if you're good to attend and willing to answer questions? * Open discussion on a possible Wikimedia Ireland Conor, if you are willing to pursue the Creative Commons people in Cork and investigate the legal/technical aspects of setting up a chapter in Ireland that it would be good. Could you give feedback on that at a meet-up as part of an agenda too? (Thomas Ralph, how would be best to cover the costs of your travel expense and board? A whip around or do you guys have a budget? Or a future Wikimedia Ireland might be able to pay you back or return the favour in some way?) How does that sound by people? Oliver ________________________________ From: Conor Wao <conorwao(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia IE <wikimediaie(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thu, 22 July, 2010 10:29:55 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia IE] Ready To Go? Hi all, It's great to hear such enthusiastic responses. I think we'd all agree that collaborating with the UK people on this would be wonderful, so thank you Andrew, Thomas and David for your posts. We seem to have myself, Oliver, Cary and Aisling as confirmed Irish interested so we still need a few more people. I see some University College Cork people are working on Irish Creative Commons licensing already [ http://creativecommons.org/international/ie/ ]. That might be a good place to contact to get law-savvy people on the team. I can contact them if that sounds appropriate to everyone - ? Suggestions welcome... Aside from getting more people, we need to consider drafting some founding documents - a mission statement, bylaws, etc. Perhaps we could get access to the UK team's documents as an initial step. Kind Regards, Conor Wao. _______________________________________________ WikimediaIE mailing list WikimediaIE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie

2010/7/22 Rannpháirtí Anaithnid <wiki_ra(a)yahoo.ie>ie>: When you have a date, don't forget to advertise on wikien-l and wikimediauk-l as well. Also, I wonder if a geolocated site notice on en:wp would be useful ... it's done well for WMUK meets. - d.

On 22 July 2010 12:14, Jodi Schneider <jschneider(a)pobox.com> wrote: I would strongly encourage involving people from non-English projects as much as possible. WMUK has tried, unsuccessfully, to do that and I hope you can prove that it can be done and that we're just incompetent!

2010/7/22 Rannpháirtí Anaithnid <wiki_ra(a)yahoo.ie>ie>: I think a 2pm lunch is a great idea. That's roughly what the regular London meetups do. I would suggest keeping the whole thing informal for now. You can start having more formal meetings about chapter formation once you have got enough people interested. People might not attend the meetup if it looks too formal - you need to get them interested in the idea of a chapter first and an informal meetup is a great way to do that. I'd love to, but I start a new job on 1st September, so it's really not a good date for me. If you follow my advice and have a formal meeting later (in October or November, say), I'll try and come. I'd cover my own costs - flights to Dublin are ridiculously cheap, even after you add on the "optional" extra charges (like paying with a type of credit card that people actually use...).

On 22 July 2010 19:49, Aisling Walsh <vumpireofkid(a)gmail.com> wrote: Don't think of meetups as being official. Anyone can (and should) organise meetups anywhere they like and anywhere they want.

Hey, David - I know you guys got a chapter off the ground and from the looks of the number of events popping up on Watchlist banner it looks like you are pretty successful to day. More Irish interest would be cool. I've just posted a message to all of those who expressed an interest and posted a message at Wikiproject Ireland on en.wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ireland#Wikimedia_I… Any tips, adivce or experiece you could offer would be great. Regards, Oliver On 20 Jul 2010, at 20:52, David Gerard wrote: User:Rannpháirtí anaithnid