[sakai2-tcc] Community building survey/ideas

[Neal Caidin]

I do tweet some now, but for me tweeting are little bits and pieces. A blog post might be a way to give an overview of things happening in the community for which there would be no easy way to do with tweets. I like the interview idea. A Google Hangout interview, publishing the time and content of the interview in advance, could get some community participation so that it is interactive, and it can be saved to Youtube for archiving purposes. It may not be an either/or proposition (though no way I could launch them right now).

-- Neal


On Jul 10, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:

> 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 
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> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4660FB7F523B1770
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> 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.
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>> 
>> 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?
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>> 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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