August 25 Meeting Notes
Agenda
- Conference Track/Session
- Review Schedule
- F2F in Educause
- Number of tracks/Rooms
Decisions:
- Top level categories or tracks revised:
- Teaching, Learning & Assessment (new name)
- Technology
- Management & Campus Implementation (NOTE the addition of Campus to help distinguish from tech implementation.)
- Sakai Foundation, Community Source & Governance (new name)
- Research & Collaboration (New)
- The Program Cmte. (with the help of some others) will act as conveners for each session, setting context, providing structure, and acting as time keepers and providing summaries.
- We will start adding content as soon as possible (we can add the sessions we have "called for" and not wait until all sessions defined).
- Program Cmte. will convene in a f2f meeting at Educause on Oct. 18. Mary will help us find a Suite/Space.
- There will be 5 different session formats supported:
- Panels
- Workshops (How-To)
- Discussions (Round-tables)
- Lecture Sessions (Trad. Papers)
- Poster session(s)
Action Items
- The organizing cmte. will get back to us on the # of rooms. Mara will meet with them to determine room availability and start to flesh out the conference template. There should be at least 8 rooms, with possibly 12.
- Form for call for sessions and demos will be developed and shared with group by next week
- Discussion regarding naming and a way to "Celebrate the coming together of Sakai and OSP" so as to ensure that the portfolio track is visible to both Sakai and OSP folks will continue via email and be on the agenda for next week.
Other important points in discussion
- Ways to engage the learning and pedagogy folks in paradigm that makes sense, speaks in their language, and leads to impactful efforts. Maybe some sort of thread through the TLA track...
- Motivate and prepare people to be productive open source contributors
- Is there a way to use response systems for use with panels or other sessions?