2009 Vision session notes Day 3

Open.Michigan OER Team - 2009 Vision session notes Day 3

Goals for sessions

 * individual roles for next year (and beyond?)
 * what is the community &amp; 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 &amp; 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)

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

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 -&gt; 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)

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
 * 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)