Hi Sean, Hi Sandy, Hi everyone,
Sorry to miss the meeting last night... I read the logs. Were you all happy
with the background for the Yoruba press release I wrote? Should I paste
the list of education journals that Sandy needed somewhere?
I've fallen behind a little bit because my Dad was rushed into hospital
very suddenly and he had a very big operation and we learned that it is
cancer. I rushed to Wales earlier this month, spent some time in the
Intensive Care Unit with him and now, thank goodness, he is recovering well
and he is out of hospital. I wasn't going to say anything about it, but
then I read the logs of the meeting last night, and I realised I had been
missed. Well folks, if I havent replied to an email, that's why. Sorry
about that.
Now you all know that I am good at getting things done - the press release,
the education journals - if there is another task I can help with, please
just shout. I will get my thinking cap on [er.. British expression for I
will think carefully] about the Wiki Love Meme.
I want to make things happen. Here's an idea: I would like to organise a
1-day conference in the UK on Wikis, Academia and Public engagement. It
would be hosted in my department and we have lovely open spaces in our
building.
I will be asking a contact at a research council to support it financially,
but they usually only do it if it is co-funded and would be attended by
some big names. What are the chances of that, do you think???
If Sandy thinks this is a good idea, I'd love to know who would like to
come and we could brainstorm to shape the idea up a little.
Sorry to miss the meeting once again.
best wishes
Jen/Open Research
--On 29 August 2007 22:28 +0100 Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Tonight we had a very successful IRC meeting in the ComProj IRC
channel and I think that several decisions were reached that should
help the future of the group. I will detail these below. Because not
all members were present, please feel free to give your comments on
the list here, and if you disagree with the conclusions we drew,
please say so.
The first item was ComProj's current membership roster. I pointed out
that the private spreadsheet containing the information provided when
people join ComProj was a bit pointless as it remained private and so
we agreed it should be put on meta. However, it does contain some
confidential information, namely e-mail addresses, real names and some
brief real life bios. Since we do not want to offend anyone, I intend
to filter these out until I get confirmation from individuals that
they are happy with their information being listed. I will keep you
informed about how I get along with this.
The next item was ComProj's organisation. schiste suggested that we
get people involved with the group as project managers and just that -
people who may not really be appropriate for doing projects
themselves. He said that lots of people who do communications work do
not like project management, so this would allow them to just get on
with their specialisation. schiste volunteered to try to find a pool
of project leaders from across Wikimedia. Please let him know if you
are interested.
We now hope to have projects being assigned leaders (the idea is that
co-ordinators (me, Sandy, Cary) will do this) and then work can begin.
I aim to do some restructuring of our pages on meta tomorrow so that
this can be slotted in. Hopefully, this will mean that people will get
chance to work at something they really want to do and projects can be
completed in a more timely manner.
As chair I will still be trying to pull stuff together by arranging
and organanising meetings and attempting to liaise between project
leaders etc. which I think is working reasonably well. It should be
made clear that even though we now have three layers of co-ordinators,
project leaders and members, everyone within ComProj is most
definately equal - it's just that we are doing different jobs.
Managing a project, for example, is a skill in the same way graphics
designing or writing is.
Again, please feel free to offer comments. I will be updating you as I
work on our pages on meta, which I would hope we start to use more.
[[m:User:Sean Whitton]]
ComProj chair
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