On 12/12/07, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As a next step, maybe we generate a list of things we'd like to be > able to do with it? please feel free to chip in to the list below. > It's great people on the list (susie at least) already have experience > with doing something like this.
Excellent list (and an ingenious method of representing a hierarchical list in plain text, heh)! I think that pretty much covers the project-focused aspect of this activity. I do have one question though... will non-profits *know* what kind of expertise they need? I'm guessing they might know that their site is hard to use or that it's not accomplishing their goals, but not why. The other half of this activity is getting IxDA'ers signed up and assigned to projects. To do this, we'll need to allow people to create and manage their profiles. A profile would include: *Basic contact info **Name **Email **Phone (optional) **IM (optional) **Mailing address (optional) *Desired role **Participant - Standard (just an IxDA'er doing some good) **Participant - Mentee (doing good while getting experience) **Mentor (5+ years exp. in the field, assisting those indicating they are mentees) **Project manager (not sure about this one, but it seemed worth mentioning) *Areas of interest (text field, optional) *Areas of expertise (text field, required for standard participants and mentors) *Typical availability per week (in hours) Am I missing anything here? Going back to my question about "type of expertise needed," maybe that's something a human "moderator" could determine? Some generous soul in the IxDA could volunteer to moderate pro-bono requests, distributing them to participants based on areas of interest & expertise. Thoughts? Another aspect of this project would need to be *promoting it* to the non-profits. But that's probably a completely separate discussion. - Fred ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
