Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the board currently working on all this right now?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:11 PM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The board for the last 3 years has defined the problem of how to create a > vibrant, valuable and effective community of practice. We've looked at > existing solutions and when we map them against our requirements and > resources they all come up very short. So let me go from vague to more > specific. > > We all know the email list is broken for much of the subscribership of the > organization. What Jeff has done is GREAT, but it only solves a small > portion of the issues we are facing as an organization/global community. > > Local < > Global: > If you read the presentation that Josh presented it is clear that the > community is a being forged as a bottom-up grassroots organization, but > with > strong guidance and facilitation from a central body. The local groups are > hungry for that support, especially in the areas of infrastructure and the > global organization is hungry to take what the local groups create and > spread it far and wide to those who can't experience, and to codify it into > something that is retainable, searchable, and useful. > > Local groups need landing pages where they can present calendars, manage > members/subscribers/attendees, and post announcements relevant to that > locale. But those same people are also members of the global community. We > need a system where people can declare themselves as members of a > community, > interest group, etc. and global needs a way to gain outreach to people who > discover IxDA locally first. > > One of the things we want to avoid is what I call the BayCHI syndrome where > most of the members don't really feel affinity towards the parent org > (SIGCHI), and thus their energy, membership, and resource is isolated to > just that community. > > But there are other problems that need to be solved as well, around > discussion management, job announcements, event announcements to the global > and local communities, aggregating content, allowing for translation > spaces/non-English discussions (but w/o cannibalizing the global > community), > and many others. > > We want to figure out how to make useful and practical connections to the > other social networks we use, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. > > I think this is enough to give you a sense of the scope we are discussing > at > this point. > > What I see is a multi-year plan that creates a kernel of functionality that > allows a platform to form around and on top of it. I hope that local > organization energy can supplement it over time instead of everyone > building > their own CommunityX, Ning, Basecamp, whatever system which just ends up > being wasted bureaucratic energy, as none of those solutions will ever be > able to scale to our total needs (even if they look like it, they fall > short > and then we are stuck waiting for THEM to expand). > > So what does this first kernel look like? > 1st it needs to get us off of mailman. We need to rebuild the list, archive > and subscription management system. A 2nd part of the puzzle that should > probably be in any first release is the local landing pages with calendars, > RSVP systems, and content management. > > After that, sky is the limit. That 1st bit by itself is pretty big for us > to > take on. We need solid backend development support including expertise in > DB > and Middleware and email systems that we current don't have. But before > that, we also need a really strong UI system design that projects out the 5 > year vision and the road map for how we get there. This last part is where > I > see the crowdsourcing begin and continues within this community. > > Hope that clarifies. > > -- dave > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jared Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Will Evans wrote: > > > > Could you define the problem space a little better? I am unsure what > >> problem > >> we face and therefore can't think of what solution we might use. > >> > > > > I think that's the problem we should solve: that we don't know what the > > problem we solve is. > > > > Think of how much better the world would be if we all agreed on what > > problems needed solutions? > > > > Jared > > > > > > -- > David Malouf > http://synapticburn.com/ > http://ixda.org/ > http://motorola.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... 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