2-25-2009 Conference Call

Participants: Mathieu, Salwa, Robin, Kate, Janet, Peter, Sue

Agenda Items

0. Misc.

  • Josh not able to attend.
  • Nathan will not join us today. Josh is trying to figure out how to make this happen.
  • Collab is not collaborating...

1. TWSIA (Sue, Kate)

1.1 Judging

 Schedule: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/PED/TWSIA09+Planning#TWSIA09Planning-timeline



  • Error message from a guy form Lancaster. Nate will have to handle it.
  • Sue has Elluminate. Volunteered to host meetings. She will contact judges and finalists to schedule web conferences, etc.
  • Kate will organize, contact people who will do preliminary judging: Janet, Maggie, Salim, Aileen, Mary Mcmahon, Leonie, Lorie Shuck, Salwa (might be missing one or two).
  • Kate will send an email with instructions to preliminary judges, optional orientation on Thursday, March 5th instead of Wednesday.
  • Recordings will be available for those who can't make the meeting.
  • Extend submission deadline to Include the weekend: new date & time: March 2nd. 11:59 p.m. GMT. Someone will send announcement out.

2. Other Topics of Interest

  • Robin: Is willing to push this group to prepare something for the pre-conference and conference.
  • Janet: people could submit their 5 minutes in advance.
  • We should announce it on the mailing list.
  • Plug their sessions.
  • Half-day of T&L.
  • Peter: More people attended Paris pre-conference then Newport Beach.
  • Janet: We need a theme.
  • We need functional people on the design teams.
  • Share your Wows and Gotchas, on Confluence and during the pre-conference.
  • We should focus our work on sharing a top 10 list for developers.
  • Record your use cases on the Potential Vignettes Use Cases page.
  • Submit all scenarios, not only content authoring.
  • Feature requests should be on Jira. Stories are preferred.
  • Robin will create a page and brainstorm on the pre-conference and T&L sessions: Preconference 2009 Teaching and Learning
  • Fame, Shame, Frame.
  • Look at vignettes.
  • Peter asked Robin to submit a description to add to the conference registration site.