Present: Alfredo, Jamie, Josue, Charles, Mallory, Daniel (dkg), Ross, Mark, Aaron, Nancy, Sarah, Sylvia,  Mark, Kate, Micah, Lou

Decision: Meeting ending time 6:30 pm/America/Eastern

Working on Questoins

What is the difference between Communications and ICT? Seems like there is not a clear distinction. We should think of the ICT as being closely connected to all groups (not just communications).

Should try to incorporate tech principles into goals.

Other folks have added changes directly to the ict questions.

Addressed vagueness of how we provide technology trouble shooting - to avoid over expections

Mark D. agreed to be point person on wiki stuff - for building people's skills.

By "no webmasters" - we mean that we work by consensus. We want to encourage participation and democracy - not just one point of content creation. But - needs structure/design. The main principle is that we don't want anything to get in the way of people participating in the project.

Is it the ICT's responsibility to create content?

  • All participants must create content
  • Yes - should create content related to the use of tech for the social forum (tools, training, etc)
  • Need to fill in immediate changes to web site - but then going to other work groups
  • Web site content should be an extension of other committee - shouldn't have to go through us
  • Our major responsibilities: is to encourage robust content creation from all sectors
  • At some point you have to look from the perspective of someone coming cold - need expertise
  • Different kinds of content.
    • Official USSF communications
    • User generated content
    • Information architecture

Decided to move on from 6 questions since we're running out of time

Timeline

Jouse: will volunteer to create a time line.  perhaps with trac timeline module.

Recruitment

Charles entered several groups to recruit. Nancy mentioned labor tech. Alfredo/Mark L./Josue/Mark D. have experience. Nancy will contact Steve Seltzer.

Many good groups - particularly non-tech groups - can't figure out how to get involved. So, the ICT is an opportunity for lots of groups to be involved very early on.

Many individuals will join even if their organizations don't

Started outreach list of groups that we will want to contact. Could

Request from Resources Group

Suggestion: small group move forward with meeting with resources working group to address request for db support.

Mallory, Jamie, Charles volunteered

Training request

Next national meeting: proposal to do a wiki training. We don't have the date available yet - could be June or July

Sylvia will be in Detroit next week and can help with wiki training.

MFPL will come in for next national meeting and is available for training.

Major goal to get people comfortable with wikis. No one tool will solve all problems, so we may try new tools down the road.

Accessing User Experience

During training, important to gather people's experiences and provide feedback for better design

Hard to get good feedback.

From 2007 - we know that if people have a hard time with the site, they just won't access it.

Facebook page

Nancy will invite Rachel to participate with the ICT in coordinating the Facebook work.

June 22 announcement date - getting web site together

We need to know these dates from the NPC.

Proposal to have a small group of volunteers to go to the next communications meeting, come up with a plan for getting the web site going, and report back.

Alfredo, Nancy (on local level), Ross

Wrap Up

Next meeting: May 28, 5:00 pm/America/New York time