Up for Election: Chris (CA), Donald (OA), Richard (Open Spot), Piotr (Open Spot)
As Donald is retiring - agrees to handle election process
Tentative Schedule:
Request for nominations sent out 2nd-3rd week of April
Nominations will remain open 7-10 days
Voting period will last 7-10 days (roughly ending start of May)
New Members join next meeting 2nd? week of May
Revisit Journal Idea
Noticed that [1] was proposed, similar to past ideas, will need to keep an eye on it.
per Jan, Daniel Mietchen might work with Piotr's idea - may need to wait till WikiMania ([2]) since it is being discussed there.
Jan will continue to be liaison on this, although Richard will be the second point person.
Online Ambassador Recruitment
Agreement on getting site-notices up, potentially geo-localized near current schools? Will also need to officially post a notice on the appropriate places (signpost, talk pages (student pages as well?), GEP,...) to try and bring in more people.
Max/Jami will be the point person
Adding questions regards plagiarism - agreed on 3 questions to be added to OA application:
How would you make sure your students were not violating Copyright laws?
If one of your students had an issue with Copyright Violation how would resolve it?
In your own words describe what Copyright Violation is.
Signpost Update
Going well but only focusing on bi-weekly till we get more content.
Future Re-Org Meeting
Looking for roughly 20 people to participate in early summer in SF or NYC? (Exact date will not be same time as Wikimania)
Prelim discussion will be on-wiki, to help get ideas into the pot, final number of folks in the room TBA depending on schedules/interest
Will need to coordinate with tabled talks from conferences & wmf affairs end of june/early july
Email will be sent out Monday with more precise details, but focus will be on long-term strategy / project organization
Will also need to firm up how to "train" Online Ambassadors in a more formal way -> alot will need to go on-wiki and combined with Professor Aid?
Bottom line, WMF is trying to hand-off most of the remaining responsibility back to the community - transition period will probably last through Dec 2012?
Recap IRC OA Chat
Biggest takeaways are we need more formal training, and to really make roles and responsibilities more explicit instead of the current more laissez-faire - Jami will send a more defined list on Monday as she had to head to the airport
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academical_Village
A few minor updates - waiting on Education Extension to go fully live to launch
Do need to port over last few pages, but partly waiting on...
