Re: Community Development Task Force Meeting Notes

OK, Patrick, we'll be looking for your help! :-)

J

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From:  Patrick D'Souza <pdsouza@about.com>
Reply-To:  "pdsouza@about.com" <pdsouza@about.com>
Date:  Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:53 AM
To:  Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com>
Cc:  "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: Community Development Task Force Meeting Notes

    
 Doc sprints in New York. Yay !!! :):)
 
 
On 04/16/2013 02:50 PM, Scott Rowe wrote:
 
 
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> Thanks to all who attended!
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> At today's meeting of the Community Development task force, we had the
> following. You can find all of the information below at the following page:
> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Community/Meetings/Community_Development
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> Agenda
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> * Establish an irregular meeting time.
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> * Develop a plan for university outreach and communication.
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> * Decide when/where to hold up-coming doc sprints.
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> Actions
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> Meeting time
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> * Resolved: the meeting's appointed time shall remain Tuesdays via Zakim at
> 10:00 Pacific Time, to be held only if there is an agenda.
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> * Doug (shepazu): confirm the Zakim reservation and reestablish the conference
> code, 3627 for these meetings.
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> University outreach
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> * Julee to contact Alex (jkomoros) about potential internship funding and
> availability. 
> * Julee to create internal spreadsheet listing contacts, their address and
> particulars. 
> * All to fill in the spreadsheet with contacts - having done the legwork to
> sign them up. 
> * Doug (shepazu) to contact W3C member universities.
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> * Julee to edit student recruitment message [1] with more detail about
> internships and specific tasks/projects for recruits.
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> Doc Sprints
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> * Resolved: Holding a doc sprint at OpenHelp would be contingent upon Mozilla
> also holding a doc sprint. Not likely.
> * Tabled: Doc sprint at OSCon, July in Portland, OR.
> * Tabled: Doc sprint to coincide with Internet Week New York [2].
> * Tabled: Doc sprint in North Carolina.
> * Tabled: Doc sprint in New York or Boston area late summer.
> * Scott: To work with Peter to identify conferences to target for New
> York/Boston late summer.
> * Tabled: Doc sprint in Amsterdam, with Frontiers conference in October.
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> Next meeting
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> We'll hold another meeting next week to discuss progress on actions and tabled
> items.
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> Minutes
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> 10:10 AM ― julee present
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> 10:12 AM <scottrowe_> present
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> 10:12 AM ― jswisher is present
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> 10:12 AM <shepazu> present
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> 10:12 AM <waiseto> present
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>  10:12 AM → Ryan_Lane joined (~Ryan_Lane@wikimedia/Ryan-lane)
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> 10:13 AM <scottrowe_> first decision: we'll keep this time and bridge
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> 10:13 AM <scottrowe_> Doug will make sure that the old conference number, 3627
> is valid
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> 10:15 AM <scottrowe_>
> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Projects/Communications/Universities
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> 10:17 AM <scottrowe_> University outreach: Julee edited the above
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> 10:18 AM <scottrowe_> jkomoros mentioned that there may be internship money
> available.
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> 10:23 AM <scottrowe_> AI: Julee to confirm with Doug, Alex that we have a
> program in place before we advertise it in public-webplatform-news.
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> 10:23 AM <scottrowe_> It may be a Google Summer of Code or like program.
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> 10:24 AM → jay_ joined (57bd77b9@gateway/web/freenode/ip.87.189.119.185)
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> 10:25 AM <scottrowe_> jswisher: Summer of Code excludes documentation work
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> 10:32 AM <scottrowe_> AI: Wei to send note to Web Education group of W3C,
> requesting subscriptions to public-webplatform-news, with the body of Julee's
> Universities note.
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> 10:43 AM <scottrowe_> AI: Julee to create an internal (not shared publicly)
> spreadsheet of addresses.
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> 10:46 AM <scottrowe_> AI: All to contribute recruits to the spreadsheet.
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> 10:46 AM <julee> W3C university members
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> 10:46 AM <scottrowe_> AI: shepazu to contact Universities that are members of
> W3C
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> 10:46 AM <waiseto> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List :)
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> 10:47 AM <scottrowe_> jswisher: English writing programs, technical
> communication, engineering.
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> 10:50 AM <scottrowe_> next topic, doc sprints
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> 10:50 AM <scottrowe_> shepazu: would like to know who can help with an east
> coast doc sprint
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> 10:51 AM <scottrowe_> julee: question on the suitability of OpenHelp
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> 10:52 AM <scottrowe_> jswisher: OpenHelp does not attract a lot of web
> developers
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> 10:52 AM <scottrowe_> shepazu: we would need to reruit our own attendees
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> 10:56 AM <scottrowe_> shepazu: attending with Mozilla would build ties between
> us and Moz
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> 10:56 AM <scottrowe_> shepazu: might be an opportunity to build content on
> both sites
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> 10:58 AM <julee> https://www.internetweekny.com/
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> 11:01 AM <julee> 
> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Community/Community_Events
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> 11:01 AM <scottrowe_> resolved: Doc Sprint at OpenHelp contingent upon
> Mozilla's participation.
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> 11:02 AM <scottrowe_> Meeting adjourned
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> [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Projects/Communications/Universities
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> [2] https://www.internetweekny.com/
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