scribing/recording action items

We spent a little time in yesterday's meeting clearing up the actions.
I hope everybody agrees that was time well spent.

Chime did well to write down something any time he heard something
like an action item. What we clarified was that each action
should have a clear owner who has agreed to do what's recorded.
And they should be phrased so that you can tell if they're done or
not.

So for example, we started with
  ACTION: Address XML schema GRDDL usecase (interested parties)

but clarified it to:

 ACTION: Harry carry XML schema GRDDL usecase to later meetings

The RRSAgent bot gets very excited when you write ACTION: ... ;
I find it's often best to hide the action from the bot
by prefixing it with a '.' or something
until I'm sure the person has accepted it, a la:

 DanC_scribe> . ACTION Fred: integrate widgets into section 3

and then when Fred confirms that he accepts that action, I hit the
up arrow, take off the dot, and record the actual action.

RRSAgent has some support for revising the text of an action...

 DanC> ACTION 2 = DanC as additional participant for usecase #1,
scheduling

but it's not fully supported across the whole RRSAgent/Zakim/scribe.perl
tool suite yet; Chime had to edit the action summary by hand yesterday.


Hmm... I should probably integrate some of this into the
relevant ESW wiki topics...
  http://esw.w3.org/topic/ActionItems
  http://esw.w3.org/topic/MeetingRecords
  (which should also link to http://www.w3.org/2002/03/RRSAgent )
  http://esw.w3.org/topic/ZakimDemo

Bonus points to anybody who beats me to it.

By the way... in the dogfood category...
RRSAgent has some support for storing actions in the
web in RDF. Is anybody interested in using that?
I don't think it models the action owner explicitly,
but you could fake it with a text match, perhaps.

I had some fun with formalizing the "you can't assign an action
to somebody who isn't here" rule in RDF/OWL/N3 a while ago;
see details linked from the MeetingRecords topic.

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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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Received on Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:23:22 UTC