COPY: [oats-sig] Ongoing OATS

All good ideas - I especially agree with newsletter and fact-to-face
as being good for community growth.

Perhaps not so much a milestone but stabilising the mail list in case
of an election bearing in mind what happened last time.

I'd like to see a policy for upgrading trac and subversion.

Which projects are ear marked to promote the site? Jambu I guess? SAW?

On 3/29/07, Stephen Druce <druce at ace-centre.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  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
>
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