BEAM Meetings
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Aug 26, 2011 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM |
| Where | GLOBAL HOME HEALTH CARE, INC 1032 15TH AVE SE. Rochester, MN 55904 Phone: (507) 282-6466 |
| Attendees |
Mandatory: Al, Steve, Kim, Rich |
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Meeting Logistics and Agenda
GLOBAL HOME HEALTH CARE, INC
1032 15TH
AVE SE. Rochester, MN 55904
Phone: (507) 282-6466 Fax: (507) 292-6694
August 26 Agenda:
Review Linux/Plone Education Project Status work items
Introduce collaboration opportunity regarding training video product for GEMS.
DC3 as Collaboration Platform for Greater Rochester Non-Profit Executive Directors group
ABC Built Distribution Channel Possibility
DC Training Plan Review
- How to use Diversity Council Collaboration Center
- Demo DC3 in the role of the Board Secretary
- As a Board Member
- As a Committee Member
No remote participation today
Remote Participation Info
Audio portion of the meeting
To join the audio portion of this meeting, choose your dial in method:
Dial-in Number: +1 (775) 996-3560 (Long Distance Toll Number)
or,
Skype: fuzemeeting
When prompted enter the room number:
Room #: 658657 and press the # key.
Video Portion of the Call
Please join the ==> video conference <=== no later than 15 minutes before the official start time.
Previous Topics
July 29
Review Linux/Plone Education Project Status work items
Introduce collaboration opportunity regarding training video product for GEMS.
DC3 as Collaboration Platform for Greater Rochester Non-Profit Executive Directors group
ABC Built Distribution Channel Possibility
DC Training Plan Review
July 22 Topics
Meeting Place: Ability Building Center (Steve Conners to host)
Review Linux/Plone Education Project Status work items
Introduce collaboration opportunity regarding training video product for GEMS.
New Opportunities include: DC3 as collaboration platform for Greater Rochester Non-Profit Executive Directors group
Review Highlights of Current Projects
Full Project List .... Project List
Remote Participation Info
Audio portion of the meeting
To join the audio portion of this meeting, choose your dial in method:
Dial-in Number: +1 (775) 996-3560 (Long Distance Toll Number)
or,
Skype: fuzemeeting
When prompted enter the room number:
Room #: 658657 and press the # key.
Video Portion of the Call
Please join the ==> video conference <=== no later than 15 minutes before the official start time.
Downlevel Meeting Logistics Details
Video Portion of the Call
Please join the video conference no later than 15 minutes before the official start time.
Audio portion of the meeting
To join the audio portion of this meeting, choose your dial in method:
Dial-in Number: +1 (775) 996-3560 (Long Distance Toll Number)
or,
Skype: fuzemeeting
When prompted enter the room number:
Room #: 658657 and press the # key.
Past Meeting Agenda
July 8 Meeting Agenda
We will be gathering at UMR Student Lounge Area at 11:30 AM and proceed from there.
Talking points from last meeting include
1. Starting a Plone Edu class through Community Ed in the interest of building out more Plone skills in Rochester
- Extension (outgrowth) of the more targeted Plone Admin Curriculum
2. Question regarding vision of BEAM ... should it be limited to Rochester only
3. Developing a BEAM contact database
4. Al to demo DC3 enablement of Diversity Council Corporate Training program
- Role-based and workflow centric to enable efficient team operations
5. How do we as BEAM core-group begin to "eat our own" dog food?
Past Meetings (Notes and Talking Points)
June Meeting Minutes
We tried out fusemeeting as a way to do conference call. Results were mixed. A couple of people tried to dial in but evidently ran into room was full message.
Decided that we will have a "core group" meeting on Second and Forth Friday around lunch time. Exact time and location to be decided.
Plone Admin Class for a small group of folks (two) in July.
Plone "get-start-fast class" target in August. Charge folks some amount of money to attend (nominal). TBD'ed do we offer through community ed. or RCTC.
You will get a CD that have VM machine that you can install and get a Plone up and running.
June Agenda
June 25 Meeting Presentation
May
Steering Committee for BEAM to help evolve its vision/mission
Questions:
- May we put you on the Steering Committee?
- What do you think of our vision and mission?
- What can we do better?
BEAM Project Status
- They are using it effectively with following needs
- Migration to Plone 4
- Performance improvement - this is going to key to really deliver on N-way collaboration
- Send mail problem -- mysterious null object error. This prevents normal add user function to execute. A major stumbling block to drive wider participation.
- MS Access strategy
- facebook linkage
- PloneEdu and collaboration with area higher edu
- Started to talk to area higher edu to have open knowledge platform (see link above for status)
- Potential leverage with University of Wisconsin and their PloneEdu initiative
- Diversity Council
- New program called Stories, strategic needs
- google search
- tag cloud
- World Festival - publicity
- Obtained a number of contacts who seem interested to join BEAM
- Cambodian New Year -- Booth Demo
- rpl BEAM multi-language DVD production
- Rochester Public Library outreach program to produce multi-media video
- Language translations
- Entertainment Software Grant Status
- Smarter Planet - Smarter Health Care
- Potential expansion point for BEAM being that Rochester is med city
- yitBEAM
- The Y needs IT admin/clean up support
- pcBEAM
- ABC built PC to reach more community members
BEAM subgroup ideas
- plone_BEAM
- video_BEAM
- helpdesk_BEAM
- mobil_BEAM
- edu_BEAM
etc
How do we recruit BEAMers?
Technical
- Linus system admin Programmers
- IT Help Desk
- Web Graphic Desiger - multi-media, web layout, html, CSS
Expert Plone Users
- Plone advanced users
4/23/2011
Talked about rlplBEAM project. A funded project.
Talked about doing a BEAM conference.
4/5/2011
The meeting should take no more 1/2 hour.
A focused check out of web conferencing.
Blue Button (free open source technology):
Try out BlueButton Open Source Web Conferencing Facility
For audio: Try SKype phone conferencing. Please send us your Skype ID.
BEAM Team Logistics
Agenda (1/29/2011)
12/4/2010 Meeting
10/30 Meeting
9/18 Agenda
August 28, 2010 Meeting
3/26/2011 Monthly Meeting Agenda
- Education Curriculum
- Project Pipeline
- Immediate requests from Rochester Public Library and Diversity Council
- Video production support (recording, editing and uploading):
- YouTube short clips and longer training recording
- Tied in with BEAM MM class vision
Meeting Logistics
Web Conferencing only
For desktop sharing try out BlueButton Open Source Web Conferencing Facility - courtesy Pradeep for this meeting.
Agenda (2/26/2011)
We will try out BlueButton Open Source Web Conferencing Facility - courtesy Pradeep for this meeting.
If it does not work well, we will go back to adobe connect.
1. Y Mentor Checkpoint Meeting
2. Plone Deep Dive - Al and Pradeep
- Diversity Council Collaboration Center (DC3)
- Rochester Public School and BEAM Education outreach
- Youth Leadership Program opportunities
BEAM Team Logistics
BEAM distribution list: you may subscribe or unsuscribe as you desire
BEAM spring conference concept
Business partner/channel development ideas and Business Plan
Technical question on installing Plone product to view pdf, Office files without downloading
Web Conference. Info on web conference accessing can be found at this ==> link .
Agenda (1/29/2011)
Accomplishments
Immediate Projects
Kim's Cambodia Trip feedback and requirements
Rochester Public School and BEAM Education outreach
Youth Leadership Program opportunities
Additional opportunities
Strategic direction
-- BEAM.org and BEAM.com notions
BEAM Team Logistics
BEAM distribution list: you may subscribe or unsuscribe as you desire
BEAM spring conference concept
Business partner/channel development ideas and Business Plan
Technical question on installing Plone product to view pdf, Office files without downloading
Web Conference. Info on web conference accessing can be found at this ==> link .
12/4/2010 Meeting
Agenda
- Mentor applications through the web
- Mentor survey status
Other opportunities
-- BEAM opportunities pipeline
-- BEAM.org and BEAM.com notions
10/30 Meeting
Meeting logistics ... two venues:
1. Face to face also at UMR Room 322 (highly recommended for first time participant of BEAM)
2. Web Conference. Info on web conference accessing can be found at this ==> link .
Agenda
- Recap YMAP Release 1 Celebration Meeting
- Y Mentor Portal Access Release 1.1 Content Discussion
- Future: YMAP User Stories
- Other BEAM related news/opportunities
10/02/2010 Agenda
Meeting ... two venues:
1. Face to face also at UMR Room 398 (highly recommended for first time participant of BEAM)
2. Web Conference. Info on web conference accessing can be found at this ==> link .
- Release 1 readiness
- Test feedback (comments so far)
- Demo other R 1 functions per user story
- Future content
- More thru-the web functions
- Dependencies on acceptance of R 1.
- Smarter Planet
- Health Care Services
- Possibilities
9/18 Agenda
Status
1. 10-15 YMAP D Date Status Check - Al
- Work Items2. Access Training status for Y Mentor Team: Hoa4. BEAM infrastructure migration status: Eldon
- New server site installed with more memory and storage, better performance
- Different versions of Plone
Plone 3
Plone 4
5. Y Mentor Team would like prioritize online mentor and youth application
Google form implementations has limitations6. Y Mentor Access Portal Release 2.0 Content Discussions - AlBEAM Team Going Forward
Next meeting will be a conference call
BEAM Vision Revisit for new members of the group
September 4, 2010 Meeting Notes (New Location: UMR Room 397)
September 4, 2010 Meeting (New Location: UMR Room 397)
1. How often and when should we meet -- survey results
2. YMAP Release 1 Status
- Interlock meeting status with Y Mentor Team
- IT Team may upload info (such as instructions on how to do certain things) to be shared with Y Mentor Team at the Misc Folder and categorize the content Case Manager
3. Release 2 Building Block Status
- Al to show Plone's Faculty/Staff directory product as a way to implement relationship/organization management
- Eldon to update Cloud Computing Platform Status
- Eldon to update team on how to use google app engine to build app
4. Misc Topics
- Raam has requirements to have guest speaker on open source, cloud computing for his class.
August 28, 2010 Meeting
Notes:
- Present: Rich, Kim, Raam, Brian, Al
- Level set the vision of Content Hub for Kim who joined the team and will add expertise on IT admin, graphic design, and multi-media
- Educate the broader team about Release 1 Content
- Demonstrate how to search content
- Kim and Raam can talk more about RCTC and UMR IT admin best practices.
- UMR introduces a lot of cloud based technologies such as gmail for student email which has a lot of cost savings and ease of admin and can tell the story of "best practice" of cost and maintainability of using cloud
- Team to figure out the best time and frequency to meet
- Kim can offer multi-media support to Y Mentor and YMCA including coming to tape events and put them up on the web to generate more buzz
- Kim can offer advice on the best way to admin IT assets for the Y and other non-profits. He does that for UMR.
- We talked about more user stories such as enabling mentees to look at mentors calendars and schedule meeting
- Al added them into User Stories
- We talked about Release 1 schedule of 10/15 and 9/11 date of Sprint 1 . Still waiting for survey data format from Y Staff.
- Raam asked Al to come talk to RCTC about open source/cloud computing etc. He will send Al dates.
Talking points
Accomplishments
- Plone menu pull down portal tab - Al
- New cloud platform (more robust and greater capacity) - Eldon
YMAP Status
August 21 Notes
1. MWG to migrate to Rackspace Cloud Server Al and Eldon
2. Hoa to look into meeting at Mayo
3. Al to find out who should attend Access training
4. We will position the benefit of Plone as content management system to Y Mentor by writing more user stories. Al
5. D Date of Release 1 is 10/15. It has a critical dependency on new survey form format.
6. Team thought Web UI was okay for now. The location of where the web page be hosted can be decided on later.
7. Talked about who is on Release 1 team and future participants and growth strategy.
August 21 Talking Points
- Cloud computing host services selection considerations Eldon
- Y Mentor Release 1 status
- Membership of the group including future meeting places discussions (RCTC or UMR possibilities)
- See link on how to join our group
- Who is on Y Mentor Release 1 Team
August 14
No meeting
August 7 Talking Points
Depending on who show up at the meeting and what the team interests are:
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Recap of stakeholder meeting - Al and Hoa
- Tutorial: How to use Google app engine to implement Y Mentor user stories - Eldon
- Plone skills building project - Al and Raam
July 31 Meeting
1. Tutorial: Al to demo how to setup a Plone Website
a. Do this for RCTC
b. Reference book at this link. (you can download this PDF)
2. Demonstrate how to use Plone to implement Sprint 1 content - Al
UI Flow based on DC's Spark Implementation
Strongly suggest that folks bring their laptops.
3. Demonstrate how to use Plomino to implement Sprint 1 stories
Reference: What is Plomino
July 28 Meeting
Agenda => Technical team kickoff
