Drumbeat/WeeklyUpdates/Dec-7-2009

Dec 7, 2009 Agenda

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Agenda

1) Feedback on latest Drumbeat project ideas:
a. An effort to use data visualization to help people understand the web.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/Visualize_the_Web
b. A series of peer-2-peer courses on open web technologies.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/p2pu
c. An open source 'movie' about the web by the web.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/webmademovie

2) Your feedback on the latest "Project Page" design
As we've talked about before, these project pages are the most important to try and get right. They're where the collaboration and "magic" will happen. We tried to incorporate previous feedback into this latest wire-frame design here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/website/page_descriptions#Latest_Iteration

• What do you think? Is it intuitive? Will people use it?
• How can we make it better? What should we try in the next iteration?

3) Your feedback on the Project Submission Page
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/website/project_submission_page
This is the page on the web site that spells out the process for submitting your own project to Drumbeat. We're drafting a) site copy, and b) potential diagram napkin sketches to help spell out the story visually.

The draft that's there now is about 50% baked, so could really use some feedback.

• Do the general approach and headline sections make sense?
• What feels like it's missing? What can we cut?
• Before sending them to design, how can we make the diagram drafts better?

4) Project Submission Template
As Mark mentioned, we've been working on the set of fields we'll be asking people to fill in to flesh out their Drumbeat project ideas.

• What do you think of the draft template here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/website/project_submission_form

• What fields might be missing? What's something you'd want to know about a project that isn't covered here?
• How do we make filling out this process easier and more intuitive?

5) House-keeping

• Can someone help figure out how to add audio recording files of these calls to the wiki?

Notes

David: lots of our ideas seem very advocacy oriented -- we need more about building stuff

Gina: increasing awareness is about getting people to participate A lot of awareness raising really is powerful -- will set up better projects for later

Project Page Wireframe (Ned) David: big fan of the tabs David has been working on set of elements projects need to advance To be considered as a "Featured Project," need more information than the bare minimum required in phase one

Gina: Really important to have very simple entry point Another way to share ideas -- in addition to submitting through the project template

personal piece of building community is important; relationship with person who leads idea Gina: do you know somebody / get more directed in the ask

Gina: Is there a way to have participation asks / a set of thing: volunteer to test this boxes for people to check on page asking people to volunteer / same set of boxes to check