Conference Call Notes 10 01 08

Call Details

Call recording link: http://sra.sharedrecords.org/records/d0f6b6c7b9d1c68ea349bdcf2514cb2d7be4cad6.data
These notes also posted at: http://www.projects.unamesa.org/2008-10-01

Agenda

Academy update - Heather
Wikispaces update - Martin and Saq
EC2 and TiddlyWiki.org update: Andreas and Saq
EC2 and SharedRecords update: Greg
Other updates from associates

Participants

Greg
Saq
Marianne
Eric
Heather
Martin
Barak
Cory

Apologies

Paul – can be on call every other week
Jonathan – will be out of town today and for next two weeks (8th & 15th)

UM Academy

Heather

academy restructure
- original idea was to bring in two or three organizations, have 6 – 12 people present for collaborative training and learning process
- it’s been very hard to get the organizations to participate
- still have the same overall goal but have decided to break it down into smaller steps
  - a single organization – maybe 2 people
    - one who has a good sense of how the different depts work together
    - someone who has the biggest bulk of generating files
    - (Greg) – it will be one on one training specifically focused on the organization and Eric would be one of the key people to go onsite at their locations to help craft forms specifically to fill their needs
  - one or two day training
  - will have pretraining needs assessment (instead of doing this during the training)
  - more emphasis on post training, implementation, tech support
  - instead of a ‘for fee’ model, will have a ‘pay it forward’ model – participants will be asked to do the following in exchange for the training
    - participate in a collaborative training, contribute to the UM community, document learning process
  - 1st pilot training will take place the week of Oct. 20th
potential pilot participants – each has partners we can reach out to later
- - CARD – the disaster preparedness organization is on the list and the nex step is to have a meeting
    - (Greg) – I spoke with Scott, the director, and he’s in the process of designing a system from scratch in order to train the trainers – he’ll get back to me when he has a concise vision of their needs (probably in a couple of weeks)
  - Paul and I are meeting with the American Indian Child Resource Center tomorrow
  - Dirk signed up for a phone meeting about his charter schools
  - there’s also a healthcare organization that we will be setting up a meeting with
application
- (Eric) – a new copy of the tiddlywiki with the application form in it is posted at http://unamesa.org/academy/
  - as an online version, it does not have new document and saved document command in the left column – instead it has download document
  - you can fill in the form and submit it and then you will be given a choice to download it – the download will have your completed form which will be saved locally
  - currently the forms will be sent to 3 addresses: academy@unamesa.org, heather@unamesa.org and els@unamesa.org .
  - all scripts are hosted on the unamesa.org site and so is the document
    - when the form is submitted, it gives a thank you message which needs to have instructions for saving the document added
  - Heather and I updated the content

Wikispaces

Saq

the news from Andrew Lister is that there haven’t been any problems
- he’ll be doing the review with the students in a couple weeks and we’ll find out then how many are actively using the student notebook
- the instructor’s notebook has been very useful to Andrew
  - he prefers entering his data through tiddlywiki (as opposed to wikispaces) – I’ll forward his reasons to everyone
- the students would like way to print out the slides that belong to a lecture and have the option to include their notes or not – so I’m working on a plug in for that
- I’ve spoken with Andrew about setting up a public demo because I’d like it to have actual content
  - he’ll put together content that he’s allowed to redistribute in a couple weeks
- I’ve also looked at the code base from the point of view of being able to set up a service where people can go to say, “This is my wikispaces site and I’d like a notebook that synchronizes with it.”
  - for the student notebook this will be straightforward
  - the teacher’s notebook will take more work because we customized it for Andrew’s course and he’s quite familiar with TW so there were things we didn’t have to worry about – so I think it’s good idea to roll out a service where you can get a generic notebook that synchronizes with the wikispaces space and then introduce an instructor’s notebook later on
- I haven’t heard anything back from Adam regarding our wikispaces request
messaging
- (Martin) – I hope to make good progress by the end of the week
  - next step is to get the creation and upload of the discussions going

EC2

Saq

svn.tiddlywiki.org and track.tiddlywiki.org have been moved over to the EC2 server
the skin changes from track have not been moved over to the new server – we’ll have to decide if it was useful and whether or not to port it over
there’s a slight issue with track permissions right now and not being able to get confirmation emails sent out
- (Eric) – I noticed about a 3 week gap in the ticket numbers of the track system
the media wiki still needs to be moved over – tiddlywiki.org – Andreas will work on that this weekend and I’ll inform the community when I have more details

SharedRecords Move to EC2

Greg

all services have been moved and DNS has been updated so you should now see SRs servers including sharedrecords.org and sra.sharedrecords.org
- I’m getting better responsiveness
our goal is be completely off the CGNet servers by the end of Oct. – tiddlywiki.org is the last piece still there

Additional Items

Eric

heavy stream of people coming to tiddlytools is still pouring in – there might be 6000 hits this week

Greg

I spoke with the CA state person who is responsible for HIV/Aids prevention
- they have a problem with collecting records – they have over 500,000/year from several agencies and currently it’s all done on paper
- I spoke with them about possibly using SRs as an improved way to do it
- they might also be interested in some of the forms work
- I’ll be talking with them again later this month at a summit
- they deal with a broad range of partners from small clinics in rural areas to high traffic urban centers
SRs
- having a demo where you can upload a file and get a token back is one of the services I’d like to get back online
  - perhaps Dimagi could support that demo – it might be a useful tool for you to use in other areas
- Andreas will put up the virtual machine so people can download and run a version of SRs locally
  - it might be useful to bake in a demo into that system as well

UnaMesa WikiSpaces Sites

The list of all sites can be found at http://www.projects.unamesa.org/Wikis
Please add any pages/spaces that are missing from this list or let me know what they are and I’ll add them.

UM Calendars

Action Items for 10/01- 10/08

gap in tickets of tracking system – send email to Saq and Andreas regarding this – Eric

current version of sra.records.org – run some tests to see if performance is improved – Cory

Agenda for call on 10/08

Academy update – Heather

TableTalk