CU Wiki Meeting 2011-12-15 - Our First Meeting

Champaign Public Library - Room 222

A.
1.***Next meeting will be January 3rd at 6PM*** at the Urbana Free Library. Facilitators will be Brian Bell, Bob Paleczny, Abbie Sackmann. Abbie will secure the meeting space.
     -Think about what  committee you want to be on/form! ideas for committees include: technical, outreach, editorial, communications, coordination. should they be combined? new ones added?
     - Everyone bring someone else to the next meeting! The excitement in the room was extraordinary; let's spread it and turn it into successes!
     - Every meeting will involve talking and doing. Idea raised to create a new wiki page or post at least one thing at each meeting. (perhaps meeting minutes can be posed/edited in real-time).

2. Discussed that tech committee will meet before January 3rd to prepare a list of possible softwares/interfaces, to be reviewed by everyone on the 3rd.
     -People who mentioned they want to be involved with tech committee = Bob Paleczny, Jeff Harris, Chris Ritzo, Abbie Sackmann, Brian Bell, Chris Hamb, Peter Folk, Kate Williams (nominated by Jeff), Who Else? And who wants to organize this mtg?

3. Regular meetings to be held on the first Tuesday and third Thursday of each month, rotating through Champaign Main/ Urbana Free/ Douglass Branch libraries (details of how we want to rotate to be worked out at next meeting).
     -Weeks off are so that we can "take the show on the road" ie. outreach! talk to folks who have not been to meetings about the project, about creating new wiki pages!

B.
minutes (done by a novice not noticing she was actually taking minutes, omissions/misrepresentations common and unintended):
abdul: what is a wiki. horizontal structure. collective structure. no big decisions made yet, this is really the beginning. peter and chris and brian: technical committee. volo server space. 2-3 terabytes to start?
brian and holly: presentation (see powerpoint attached)
peter: volo's contribution. importance of easy interface. interested in creating a wiki within drupal. workflows. has put together a site based on drupal to start on-- suggests that by january mtg, we can have some content up. volo will contribute server space and know-how (more now than later). no limits on space except video; uptv has an ongoing video project which is exactly aligned-- had a mtg about how they could hook up with wiki, so could upload video to their server and connect to it. (check out http://urbanaillinois.us/uptv) (for an idea of how many wiki softwares there are, check out http://www.wikimatrix.org/. warning: much information is out-of-date)
abdul: discussion of what software to use should be deferred to technical committee. should come up with a proposal to bring back to larger group. content is the issue that unites this mtg… two paths: 1=yellow-page-esque directory.
chris hamb: QR codes around town connecting to wiki pages.
brian bell: "nontraditional" students would be interested in wiki; a bridge among knowledge bases
holly: many (non-CU ie rural) communities that would benefit from this, and be really interested.
noah: history is in space. wiki to include the immense history that is everywhere. (eblackCU a great resource here-- check out eblackcu.net)
kate: social aspects of digital divide the number one issue, more important to overcome than tech.
chris hamb: importance of reaching out to businesses. computer labs a starting point for the social outreach.
dawn: important to let people know what's going on in the church, community opportunities and outreach. likes the QR idea (unanimous!)
carol: has to be comfortable for churches to take part (ie. controls on what to include). getting people into it will take some education, training,
mick: important information portal
carla: experience of technology being introduced in a place where folks didn't know how to use it before, has seen how it can happen successfully.
larri: tool for sharing
jeff: how to make it a level playing field?
kate: everyone edits, self-'policing'
abdul: important part is representing the global nature of the town
brian: challenge is what is the content and what levels to be included (ie individuals, neighborhoods, communities, etc)
kate: janitors for sweeping and levelling
chris hamb: should not be anonymous. everyone who posts should have a page for accountability.
peter: ability to tag something as offensive, and it won't get taken down but there will be a warning.
abdul: this needs to be looked back on as the first unification of this community. INCLUSIVE includes the kid on the corner.
jermain: rating is important. airing dirty laundry (ex. of restaurants and cu citizen access- chris h)
abdul: let's move to to-do list