Meetup Notes
WikiWednesday Meet Up 7/27/11
At The Mezz (Whole Foods NW Couch/12th). In attendance: Matthew, Julie, Mark, Sylvia. Note taker: Sylvia
Informal Agenda:
- Review preliminary results from PortlandWiki (PW) survey.
- a) As of last night we received 6 responses, plus 2 more today.
- b) We discussed some of the overlapping concerns and themes.
- c) Thanks to Julie for pulling this together!
- d) Julie and Sylvia will follow up with Kotra to plan sending it out to more people to increase participation and gain additional feedback about PortlandWiki.
- PortlandWiki front page
- a) Matthew is still trying to figure out how a skin could be done to create a friendlier and more modern look. Mark reviewed a couple of skins on other mediawiki sites.
- b) Matthew and Kotra are working to create a bolder search bar.
- c) In addition, Matthew will try to determine how to move the css from the bottom to the top of the page to recognize who worked on a page.
- Community Leadership Summit and PW
- a) Matthew and Mark discussed their experiences at the CLS the past weekend.
- b) Matthew held two sessions on PortlandWiki and received good questions and feedback. He'll put his summit feedback on the wiki soon.
- Creating structure for future meet ups
- a) A few folks have suggested we create more structure for these meetings that will allow for open discussion, focused planning and decision-making, and collaborative online work.
- b) Among the suggestions: keep Wed meet ups to 1 hr for discussion then begin to determine collaborative work: red link pages; pages needing more content (put out calls?)
- c) Each week a volunteer will take notes, send them to the email list and post them on PW.
- d) Sylvia suggested we also consider drafting simple meeting agendas.
- e) Julie suggested that we write 3 topics on wiki that we want to talk about at the next mtg.
- Other suggestions
- a) Mark suggested we have a PW flyer to put out at events; maybe print more stickers, smaller ones.
- b) Matthew and Mark discussed getting two-sided PW business cards (Vistaprint?), perhaps one side with the PW website then space to write in the name of a page when we discuss the site with someone.
- c) Julie reminded us that we still need to create badges for PW to acknowledge the work of contributors.
- d) Matthew suggested we consider getting durable, acrylic press badges.
- For the next meet-up
- a) Review the additional survey results and determine next steps, i.e., content analysis, ranking of most frequent results, follow up survey to narrow down PW priorities.
- b) Mark and Matthew will report back on their attendance at OSCON as reps of PW.