Drumbeat/WeeklyUpdates/Nov-29-2009
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November 30, 2009 Agenda
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Agenda
- House-keeping
- Audio recording today's call -- audio will be posted here along w. meeting notes
- "How do we make Drumbeat more 'social?'
- Carlo from noizlab will share thoughts on how Drumbeat can make richer use of social networking
- Drumbeat Project storytelling:
- Mark
- What's a good Drumbeat project? How do we make this clearer and more explicit for people new to Drumbeat?
- For example: many of the ideas being suggested for the Drumbeat Singapore event seem off the mark. So how can we make the ask simpler and more explicit?
- Mark
- Web site: wire-framing & graphic design update & questions
- Ned
- Web site: How do we design "work spaces that work?"
- Matt
- The "project pages" continue to be the most important and challenging to get right
- Questions for group: What are examples of web sites that you think do crowd-sourcing / collaborative project work well?
- What are the keys to creating work spaces people will really use?
- Matt
- Other suggested items?
- Please add here
Meeting Notes
- Carlo on "making Drumbeat more social"
- Modules in Drupal to minimize effort in social media
- Using APIs to integrate more fully with social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- Aggregate activity streams to add value to the community growing
- e.g., we host something on the Drumbeat web site, also post to Facebook / Twitter, can aggregate comments back to Drumbeat site to enrich the coversation
- You Tube, etc.
- Think about integration strategy
- David: How comfortable is Mozilla with using these social networking. Somewhat proprietary / closed platforms. Need to include others.
Mark Surman:
- Live, ignite-style presentations around open web
- Many ideas have to do with openness, but not necessarily about the web
- How can we more easily get across the idea that a good Drumbeat idea has to do with the open web?
- e.g., guy in Singapore: wants to design an "open design agency?"
- Somehow we're not communicating very well the kind of ideas we're looking for
- Gina: link to a form where they have to answer the question: "how does it make the web better?"
- Mark: great suggestion
- Will still have to push harder about how we communicate to outside world
- Gina: Organize mailing list in more public-facing way
- Mark: Once we launch more publicly will tackle that -- good point.
- Ned: looking for help on graphic design and wire-framing for web site
- Ned: also looking for great examples of recruitment / great sign-up pages
- Mozilla wiki workspaces work
- Concrete set of tasks
- Set of goals people want to move towards
- Able to build structured patterns of communication over time, esp. as wikis get better for project management
- Other supporting resources -- that fall off to the side with the wiki being what pulls most projects together
- Challenge: attracting less technical people to Drumbeat
- Most people coming for first time find Wiki alienating and hard to use
- Gina: forms / uniform
- Use forms and fields that are more user-friendly than wiki
- Make the experience easier / template
David: Facebook
- Don't necessarily collaborate on Facebook, but do active working-together like activities
- All driven by friends showing you the ropes
- And a friend shows them how it works
- No one there to hold their hand at works
Carlo:
- Where integration works important to get data where things are happening, portability, etc.
William:
- polishing document summarizing project to start an EU drumbeat blog
- and remix Mozilla manifesto, taking an EU-specific approach
- will be circulating document later today
- will be a collaborative blog
Gina
- worked on a project where people submit one-page proposals online
- definitely a work in progress, once circulated document