[sakai2-tcc] No Meeting in Ann Arbor Spring Break

[Ian Dolphin]

From my perspective, there are a couple of elements to this. 

I strongly believe that the primary role of the Foundation should be to act as a facilitator in this respect, and that project coordination should be shaped by those engaged in, and resourcing, project activity. With the basic conference organisation resolved, my next stop was to be to ask the TCC what shape it wanted the 2.x project coordination meetings to be. (The OAE Steering Group will be shaping the meetings the OAE project needs in the same way). This may be a change from previous conferences - but I'd like the TCC and active 2.x community to self-organise the agenda it needs for the event/s. I'm happy for myself and other Foundation staff to help facilitate this where needed.

I'd add one caveat, however. There are clearly issues around which the Foundation needs to facilitate activity by the community as a whole. Two examples spring immediately to mind in the context of the conference and coordination meetings around it. The first is in the area of resource aggregation across the community. I'll shortly be publishing the document I drafted, which the Board approved and some of you have seen, abolishing the PC and advocating the creation of better processes and organisational forms to aggregate resources across the community to address general and specific needs. I won't rehearse the full rationale here, but suffice it to say that there will be a conference event, aimed primarily at institutional resource holders, to develop this work further. I don't see that impinging on the project coordination time surrounding the conference at this time, unless as a brief report back on the final Friday - simply as an example of an activity where the Foundation can best deploy the slender resource it has.

Take the second example as a suggestion; it might be useful for those active in 2.x and OAE development to meet collectively to discuss any of a number of issues. A better collective understanding of the emerging u/c's for OAE Hybrid might be an example of such a topic, from my perspective.

That's maybe too much information in response to the question, for which apologies. Happy to attend any TCC call to explore further, or to amplify points in response to questions, of course.

And again, if you collectively wish to meet on the Sunday prior to the conference, please let me know and I'll do what I can.

Best

Ian

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Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation


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On 14 Feb 2011, at 15:12, May, Megan Marie wrote:

> It would probably be helpful to know what the plans are in regards to project coordination meetings (s2 and s3) around the conference.   Has there been any though to how those might play out?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Megan
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> We currently have a hotel room block which would cover Sunday night, but no breakout room in the contract for Sunday. If the additional meeting time on the Sunday prior to the conference would be useful, I'm happy to look at the cost. What numbers please? If numbers are low enough on Sunday to fit in a comp suite, we may be able to cover accommodation in that way.
> 
> Best
> 
> Ian
> 
> --
> Ian Dolphin
> Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
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> iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org
> +44 7737 862863
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> 
> On 10 Feb 2011, at 19:34, csev wrote:
> 
>> I assume that we will have a series of 2.x TCC meetings during the coordination time.
>> 
>> Sounds like there is little interest for an additional meeting in Ann Arbor.  It is OK with me.
>> 
>> While US folks might an additional three days in August to get together this as more costly, compare the cost of three days in Ann Arbor and then the following week in LA versus a week in LA in June and three days in AA in August.
>> 
>> For someone in the US - this is just two short trips - and whether they are in successive weeks in June does not affect cost.
>> 
>> However for someone in South Africa, Europe, or Australia, the cost of two separate trips makes it impossible to come twice.
>> 
>> So, if ther was a desire for an extended TCC/developers meeting *and* we wanted international participation, two successive weeks in June is far superior to two trips a coupe f months apart.
>> 
>> It is perfectly OK to say "We don't want a three-day developer meeting - a one day before and one day after the LA meeting is enough.".
>> 
>> /Chuck
>> 
>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Seth Theriault wrote:
>> 
>>> Charles Hedrick wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It would be easier for me if we meet during or adjacent to the NA 
>>>> conference.
>>> 
>>> I would agree.
>>> 
>>> Don't forget that traditionally we have "project coordination 
>>> meetings" around the conference:
>>> 
>>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Project+Coordination+
>>> Meetings
>>> 
>>> This sort of gathering seems, to me at least, to be exactly this sort 
>>> of thing.
>>> 
>>> Seth
>> 
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