Hello members and leaders of IxDA As we stated in last December (see http://ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23183), one of the important 2008 focus areas for the IxDA Board is to further develop the local initiatives. To get an understanding of your needs and to create a plan for how to address this area, we are inviting all former, current and potential local leaders/initiators to a private discussion on how to best move forward with local initiatives.
Have you thought about starting a local chapter but aren't sure how to do it? Do you have ideas and the drive to create something that can help local chapters out? Do you have what you need to get going? If you are currently running a local chapter, what is going well and what is not? What support would you like to have from the Board or global IxDA membership? If you used to run a local chapter, what sort of things would have helped you out, and what were some of the challenges that you encountered? All these questions are examples of discussions we'd like to have with you. We'll start with gathering everybody in the IxDA Boards' online forum, and create ourselves a Local Groups Task Force. We intend for this Local Groups Task Force to be a standard part of our work with a first deadline to deliver results by summer 2008. By results we intend for and hope that some of the identified needs are solved within this time span. We also want to conduct regular meetings to secure momentum. The goals of the Local Groups Task Force are to - Gather and cluster relevant information on local groups' needs - Come up with suitable supporting functions & infrastructure to address these needs - Identify sub-tasks for how to create these supporting functions (addressing costs, resources and time) - Prioritize the various sub-tasks based on feasibility and level of need - Plan and execute implementation projects If you would like to help out with the Local Groups Task Force, please send a mail to me and you'll be invited to the forum. As hinted previously, for those of you who are local leaders and/or plan to participate in the LGTF and are coming to the Interaction08 conference the board would like to invite to a local leaders dinner on Friday night at a restaurant in Savannah to meet and talk about our challenges and opportunities. We would love to see you there and if you want to come, please RSVP to me by February the 1st. All the best! --Niklas Wolkert Local leader, IxDA Sweden Director, IxDA http://ixda.org Sr. Interaction Designer Ergonomidesign http://ergonomidesign.com +46 (0)733 611 227 ________________________________________________________________ *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
