2010-03-09 conference program committee meeting

Telephone: +1-812-856-7060
Conference Code: 348#
PIN: 72524#

2pm Eastern time (US)

Minutes from last meeting:

2010-03-02 conference program committee meeting

Agenda suggestions for this meeting

• Guidelines for Proposal review/voting http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF2010/Conference+Proposal+Review+Guidelines
• Reminder: Last year's committee put together a Post-Mortem page with suggestions for future planning: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF10/Agenda+2009+July+21
• suggestion to set aside a room for "hackathon" activities for developer collaboation.
• from Ian Boston: Suggestion for a number of things at the Denver Conference.
  • I think there is support to hold 2 parallel workshops for UI development and Server development in Sakai 3. I would be happy to do the Server development workshop.
  • Second: When I have been to Apache Con, there have been several quite successful things that have been done, one of them....A room was set aside for developers to work in and collaborate. Over the 4 days of ApacheCon in Oakland most of the developers congregated in this room and did an informal Hackathon. In the past at Sakai conferences developer have hung around the halls and not really been able to collaborate.
• Maria Miller volunteered to co-track lead - Deploying Sakai
• clarify Tech demo session guidelines - how to address commercial demos (solicit "get a hallway table")
• combining <1hr sessions into 1hr. blocks - synchronizing session start times
• re. Keynote speaker - Kate Ellis said,
  • John Seely Brown has spoken at IU and will probably want a fee to speak at the Sakai conference.
  • Given the fact that there's no speaker fee paid, what do you think of asking Brad Wheeler to talk on "Openness"? He's been out of Sakai for awhile, and is now on the board of Connexions (cnx.org).

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Meeting Chat

March 9, 2010
10:57 Kate: I have to change rooms--I'll be back....
10:59 Pieter: Is anyone else having trouble connecting to the conference bridge?
11:00 Pieter: I'm in after 3 tries
11:00 Robin Hill: Back from dentist. Won't be talking much.
11:01 Mathieu: The bridge is kinda busy, yes... Had to try twice.
11:01 Robin Hill: Also attending lunch meeting at same time. Insane experiment in multitasking. Etherpad only.
11:02 Mathieu: @Robin: ok, we'll do our best to document in real-time.
11:08 Lois: I'm in but just hear music. Am I on the right call?
11:08 Lance Speelmon: Probably not
11:08 Mathieu: @Lois: no
11:09 Mike Osterman: Yay Maria!
11:09 Mathieu: +1-812-856-7060 Conference Code: 348# PIN: 72524#
11:10 Lois: A sure sign that I'm an experienced tech person – assumed it was user error. It usually is
11:13 Mathieu: +1 for boxed lunch, no break on Thursday, end at 3:00 p.m.
11:15 Mathieu: fine by me
11:15 Mathieu: +1
11:15 Lois: +1
11:15 Jeff: +1
11:15 Kate Ellis: +1
11:15 Mike Osterman: +1
11:15 Pieter: +1
11:15 Mary: +1
11:15 Earle: +1
11:15 Jim Martino: +1
11:16 Mathieu: +1 boxed lunch wed
11:16 Pieter: vote box lunch wed
11:16 Mary: +1 for box lunch on Wednesday
11:16 Pieter: +1
11:16 Jeff: +1
11:16 Kate Ellis: +1
11:16 Jim Martino: +1 box
11:16 Michael: Do I get a vote?
11:16 Earle: -1
11:17 Mathieu: BYOB Michael
11:17 Lance Speelmon: -1
11:22 Mike Osterman: Is there an export feature?
11:23 Mike Osterman: It would be great to dump the proposals to CSV
11:23 Mike Osterman: I've typically always kept a separate spreadsheet for tracking additional info.
11:24 Lance Speelmon: doesn't Excel import an HTML table?
11:24 Lance Speelmon: I think so - but not sure
11:35 Mike Osterman: Lance--not always. The stuff in the clipboard buffer doesn't always come across well depending on the browser and the way the table is formed.
11:49 Lance Speelmon: I will not be able to make it
11:50 Lance Speelmon: I will be in Japan
11:50 Lance Speelmon: Sorry Earle!
11:50 Mike Osterman: @Lance, FWIW, it looks like Susan's using JQuery
11:50 Mike Osterman: Look at this lovely plugin:
11:50 Mike Osterman: http://www.kunalbabre.com/projects/table2CSV.php
11:51 Lance Speelmon:
11:53 Mathieu: See y'all!