[sakai2-tcc] Community building survey/ideas

[Matthew Jones]

Tweeting is old school now! Vine and Instavideo are where it's at!


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:

> Blogging is pretty old school -- how about tweeting instead of blogging,
> at least until you become more comfortable with the medium?
>
> Instead of doing a survey why don't you set time aside to
>
>       interview folks working on interesting Sakai-related projects
>
> then write up the interviews and push the content to the revised
> sakaiproject.org site when it's ready.
>
> In other words, a lightweight, text-based, version of
>
> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4660FB7F523B1770
>
> since we don't have the cash to send you, camera in hand, around the world
> interviewing interesting Sakai personalities.
>
> Just a thought based on reading your suggestions below.
>
> Anth
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
>
> Hi TCC,
>
> I'm starting to think about a Community survey for perhaps our last survey
> of the year, exact timing TBD.
>
> Some initial thoughts on survey goals:
>
> 1) Community building - getting people talking with each other and sharing
> ideas. Interviews with folks working on interesting Sakai-related projects
> (as one example)?
>
> 2) Encouraging community participation - Making visible areas of need and
> figuring out how we can do a better job to encourage participation,
> "lowering bars" to participation.
>
> 3) Identify areas of education / knowledge desired by community to better
> participate - Jira training? QA training?
>
> 4) Finding out the ways the community likes to be communicated with. what
> are their communication needs, frequency and delivery.
>
>
> Any additional thoughts are welcome. I can come up with sample questions
> if it will help visualize. The nutshell is get more community engagement,
> discussion, and energy, and perhaps make some conversations that happen on
> email a little more visible and interactive. Or even perhaps make some of
> the great people resources we have more visible to the community. That kind
> of thing.
>
> Sakaiger TV on Google Hangout?
>
> BTW, some TCC members suggested I start a blog. While I have never
> blogged, and so am a bit uncomfortable about it, I think it could be a good
> idea to provide regular community overviews, so hopefully that will be
> another communications channel. Just need to kick myself in the pants to
> get started.
>
> Cheers,
> Neal
>
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