2009 Vision session notes Day 3

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Contents 1 Goals for sessions 2 Parking Lot 3 Agenda 3.1 BUDGET 3.1.1 Current Staffing 3.1.2 Future Roles 3.1.3 Current Roles 3.1.3.1 Garin 3.1.3.2 Piet 3.1.3.3 Bob 3.1.3.4 Greg 3.1.3.5 Ali 3.1.3.6 Ted 3.1.3.7 Kevin 3.1.3.8 Kathleen 3.1.3.9 Susan 3.1.3.10 Joseph 3.2 STRATEGIC GOALS 3.3 GAPS 3.3.1 Products/Services 3.3.2 Priorities 3.4 TASKS

Goals for sessions

• individual roles for next year (and beyond?)
• what is the community & how we present ourselves
• re-calibrate what we’re about
  • products, services, priorities, outputs
• plan to engage campus in Open.Michigan/sustainability
• SWOT analysis
• incentive structure understanding
• current status
• develop list of concrete follow-up action items

Parking Lot

• Decide open journal targets
• Define Open Learning spectrum
• Retrospective clearing
• FAQ
• Collections of Existing Resources
  • MERLOT
  • Library collections using DLXS
  • Saturday Morning Physics
  • Tranche Proteomics - CC0
  • Citizen Science
  • data, data, data - ISR, ICPSR, PSC
• Board of Advisors
• Eventual home (not medical school)
• Commonalities & distinctions between OA and OER
• Ideologoical/education
• Mobilize 1/3 faculty who have expressed desire to open content

Agenda

These items were time-limited to 30 minutes, so each section is not comprehensive.

• status
• SWOT
• what is the community
• metrics of success
• back to community and who we are
• recalibrate what we're about
• plan to engage campus
• sustaining our effort: budget and funding
• individual roles
• parking lot/stop doing: X
• task list (action items)

BUDGET

Current Staffing

• Susan, Garin, Piet, Ali, Bob - 100% covered by Medical School
• temps - covered by Medical School
• Kevin - covered mostly by Medical School, 20% by CITI
• Kathleen - covered mostly? by Medical School?
• Hewlett (3) grant is subsudizing a number of individuals: Ted (20%), Susan (20%), Kathleen (50%) , Kevin (10% for 2010), Ali (20% for 2010), Piet (20%), Airong (25%)

Future Roles

• technical programming manager
• open business analyst
• open learning evangelist
• library liaison
• community organizer
• publications assistant
• dScribe program manager (takes on QA process)
• web content/design person
• instructional designer
• platform developer (eduCommons, Drupal, Deep Blue, mobile apps)
• "swiss army knife" (?)
• director of Open.Michigan (?)
• sales rep
• sys admin

Current Roles

Garin

• More on legal and policy side
• Would like to focus on student-intiated side (community dev.)

Piet

• work on building Open.Michigan into the institution (business plan)
• work more with African partners
  • hates students - apparently he hates all mankind (and technology)

Bob

• "I just do what I'm told - I've been married a long time" ("to Ted?")
• mobile apps/devices (smaller form factors)
• generally, things that matter

Greg

• half-time at E-T - clean up wiki; make materials more adaptable to general population
• wants to solicit more user-contributed content (crowd-sourcing)
  • why publish this open content in a static form
• half-time at Lib copyright office
• finding existing resources (curation of content)

Ali

• would like to continue building tools/infrastructure, from a software point of view
• support the process through software development
• start investigating work opportunities in South Asia

Ted

• likes doing new and interesting things - especially projects that tie the university together
• wants to build infrastructure that has legs/foundations
• continue to be the broker/builder/communicator

Kevin

• happy doing web/OERca work right now
• would like to explore more mobile technologies

Kathleen

• would like to continue as a broker between four African institutions (at the base level) and doing international policy research
• comfortable continuing to manage dScribes
• does not want to do as much CSS or script work this year as last year (e.g. CSS work on eduCommons)
• will start working with medical school content
• spent a lot of time last year and this summer on generating documentation -> will be handing off a lot of that to Greg.

Susan

• need to find more balance between tasks
• wants to help other campus depts become more self-sufficient (with regard to open)
• "2010: The year of self-sufficiency"

Joseph

• nursing innovative things along until they are adopted
• interested in the business plan to break this out of the medical school

STRATEGIC GOALS

• get a certain percentage of our core staff supported by U-M (institutional support)
• move to open being the way things are done
  • prospective clearing
  • open learning
• build community of learners + contributors beyond immediate affilations
• Find collaborators for OERca (and other technical development?) in Ghana (KNUST- a national service student from John Marfo's group?) and South Africa (UCT - CET or OER@UCT)

GAPS

Products/Services

• Cataloging/Currating
  • most likely Community Manager
• Web Presence
  • all help, need "fly wheel"
• Sys admin
  •  ???
• Consulting
• QA / Certification (of Open Stuff)
  • dScribe Program Manager

Priorities

• Business Plan
• Med School Content
• OERca2
• Web Platform
  • Bob, Piet
  • need: Drupal Dev. Designer, IA
• Health OER
  • need: writers/editors for Search paper (KL, TH, AL)
• dScribe
  • need: program manager, dScribe2s

TASKS

• set up project management system
  • Analyze Projects
    • "Giet"
• analyze dscribe program (last week of Sept.)
  • KL sets up the meeting
• business plan
  • standing agenda item for core meeting
  • TH, JH, PK - draft outline
• Hewlett 1
  • Write report (TH, KK)
  • Finish Search Paper (KL, TH, AL)
• Hewlett 2
  • ask for no-cost extension (TH, middle October)
• Hewlett 3
  • get the submission in (Wednesday the 16th) (TH will send out draft)
  • Donors meeting plannning + briefing pack
• Hold dScribe meeting (KL, GG)
• Open.Michigan reading group
  • KL, GF, Airong select first readings
  • Airong will schedule the time
  • use our blog (Susan will Airong set it up)