Fwd: Re: COPY: [oats-sig] Ongoing OATS

Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:41:40 +0000

Hi Simon,

You requested some milestones that might go with the suggestions we forwarded.

Perhaps:

1. Something on the early stages of community building
- e.g. Establishing named contacts for focus of communication with 
user organisations and groups representing programmers

2. What about a regular e-news letter, say quarterly??

3. Then something specific for each of  specific projects chosen to 
promote the community - perhaps Steve could help here.

4. Personally I would like to see a workshop (preferably more than 
one) where both users and programmers meet.

5.  Something on the technical developments for repository and forge 
- over to you.

6. Something on new hosting/site management.

7. Something around promotion of the site as core facility for AT 
development projects eg as currently being proposed for COGAIN.

I guess to a significant extent the milestones you choose will need 
to reflect the priorities of the funding route you use.

Hope this helps,

Stephen

>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:41:40 +0000
>To: oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk
>From: Stephen Druce <druce at ace-centre.org.uk>
>Subject: Fwd: Re: COPY: [oats-sig] Ongoing OATS
>
>Hi Simon, All,
>
>Here are some ideas from ACE:
>    * It is the joint community  - between users and program 
> developers - that differentiates Oatsoft from other AT software web 
> sites.  Developing this community to become more effective would be 
> a good theme for a continuation project
>    * Developing the community would probably best be achieved 
> through activity working on one, two or a few pilot OS 
> projects.  Could this include Firefox extensions perhaps?
>    * It would be good if at least one pilot project should include 
> a child oriented application.
>    * The new project might also include provision for promotional 
> events and workshops etc involving both users and developers.
>    * Extensions to the Oatsoft functionality might include more for 
> user involvement/feedback - Amazon comes to mind.
>    * Oatsoft Repository - funding to update with new applications 
> as they become known to us.
>    * Oatsoft Forge - not our stengths but I am sure that the 
> programmers will have lots of techie ideas to make this side of the 
> site more appealing/convincing for them to use.
>    * New Oats server hosting and administration facilities
>    * Also it has been suggested to us that perhaps the community 
> could include support for cooperative development of projects even 
> if the final code is not open sourced.
>Best wishes,
>
>Stephen
>
>
>
>>Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:22:30 +0000
>>To: oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk
>>From: Stephen Druce <druce at ace-centre.org.uk>
>>Subject: Re: COPY: [oats-sig] Ongoing OATS
>>
>>>Hi Simon,
>>
>>Thanks for this.
>>David and Andrew are on annual leave for the rest of this week. 
>>I'll talk with them next week and get back to you.
>>Stephen
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Could people please send me (on or off) list, their suggestions as 
>>>to what the future focus of OATS should be.  I am considering 
>>>applying project grants and it would be good to have these ASAP - 
>>>i.e. the next couple of weeks.
>>>
>>>This particularly applies to people on the steering group.
>>>
>>>My concept, not to bias people, is to try and get money to pump 
>>>prime some of the projects and create some re-usable code (to 
>>>allow integration into mainstream software if required) and 
>>>polished projects.  This could be done by employing a coder and 
>>>also using the kind of contracting method that assembla.com uses 
>>>(putting tasks on the wiki and allowing people to bid for them / 
>>>have paid trial work).
>>>
>>>Cheers.
>>>
>>>Simon
>>>
>>>Senior Clinical Scientist
>>>Assistive Technology / Clinical Engineering
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>>
>>Stephen Druce
>>Projects Officer
>>
>>The ACE Centre Advisory Trust
>>92 Windmill Road
>>Headington
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>Stephen Druce
>Projects Officer
>
>The ACE Centre Advisory Trust
>92 Windmill Road
>Headington
>Oxford OX3 7DR
>Tel:   +44 (0)1865 759822
>Fax:  +44 (0)1865 759810
>E-mail:  druce at ace-centre.org.uk
>Website:  www.ace-centre.org.uk
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