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Meeting: 2011-10-16

October 16, 2011 in Minutes

Present

RP JHS EM IE AJM – FinalsClub.org

Agenda

  • Working group operation (and open humanities)
    • Getting people involved
    • Bi-weekly meetings (once a (or every 2) month have a big meeting with a theme?)
  • Future infrastructure – we have to sort it out …
  • Open Literature manual and principles
  • Projects: future and rebooting current ones
    • Publicity?
  • Essays section on Open Shakespeare
  • Automate WOTD (?)
  • Theme and operation of openliterature.net
    • Why change: ability to edit top menu, consistent with other wordpress
  • Administrative: sort out etherpad

Actions

  • [JHS]: ping open-literature and open-humanities announcing merger of humanities WG and literature WG. Will merge mailing lists (converging on open-humanities). List of resources is below.
  • [JHS]: subscribe everyone from open-literature to open-humanities (get list of people in text file in form: {Name} <{email}> and then copy and paste into subscription form.
    • [JHS]: hide open-literature (untick box saying advertise this list …)
    • [JHS]: anywhere there are links to that mailing list update them to open-humanities …
  • [JHS] Sort out http://humanities.okfn.org/
    • As per http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Guide#Suggested_Website_Structure
  • [RP]: boot an email address humanities@okfn.org -> okfn.humanities@gmail.com + james
    • [JHS]: boot gmail address
    • (openliterature@okfn.org -> redirect to that)
  • [JHS]: Create http://humanities.okfn.org/meetings and list next meetings (most important is WG meetings)
    • [IE]: doodle poll for day of week / time … (Tuesday 5pm is OKF central meetup).
  • [IE]: check transfer of wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Open_Shakespare (mostly done). If so can we please put at top of wiki.okfn.org page a big sign saying: gone to -> … *[IE] to work on getting open correspondence into the existing okfn/bibserver code for textualise

Summary

Working group operation (and open humanities)

  • Agreed: merge open-literature list with open-humanities
  • Agreed: merge working groups.
    • Website: http://humanities.okfn.org/
    • Wiki: http://wiki.openliterature.net/ / http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Humanities
    • Mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities
    • Email: humanities@okfn.org
    • openhumanities on twitter?
    • etherpad -> humanities.okfnpad.org
  • Todo: sort out http://humanities.okfn.org/
    • As per http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Guide#Suggested_Website_Structure

Getting people involved

  • Move content from http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Open_Shakespeare to wiki.openliterature.net
    • JHS: mostly done. If so can we please put at top of wiki.okfn.org page a big sign saying: gone to -> …
  • Move blurb to wiki
  • Send blurb to okfn-volunteers
  • Generate http://wiki.openliterature.net/Get_Involved/Tasks – IE to take on
    • Send that (or subitems) to okfn-volunteers

Bi-weekly meetings (once a (or every 2) month have a big meeting with a theme?)

  • Biweekly meetings: every sunday at 3pm …
  • Working group meeting: 15m general 30m on specific theme.
    • 1 a month. 5pm UK time.
    • http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Guide#Working_Group_Meetings

Future infrastructure – we have to sort it out …

  • Move openshakespeare core to wordpress …
  • Do we want to move to OpenLiterature.net. Yes!

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