Health meetings

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Previous meeting notes

• 21 February 2008
  
• 10 February 2008

March 16th, 2008

The conference call has been delayed. It started just now. Mika 13:39, 16 March 2008 (EDT)

Agenda

• New participants in the project -- please welcome Nand, Tom Boonsori, Adesina
• Walter Humberto Curioso joins us as an adviser. About Walter, see http://faculty.washington.edu/wcurioso/
• Updates from Anna, Mika, Benjamin, Jennifer, Chris Leonard, Lia, Drew, ... (anyone else, please add)
• Is this a good time to start actively recruiting volunteers for health projects ?
• Health Jam!
• We need some sort of weekly boot-camp in which we can welcome new participants and help them get integrated into the workflow of Health projects
• What can we immediately deliver for the Peru deployment ?
• Volunteers needed for meeting minutes and meeting co-ordination and organization!

Meeting notes proposal

--FGrose 01:51, 13 March 2008 (EDT)

• In the spirit of collaboration, since we all listen selectively and best to that which most interests us, all attendees or listeners should submit their additions on this wiki page. The moderator may simply outline the content, and everyone else should sign their contribution with the --~~~~ signature.
• A few proposed guidelines:
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Attended

• Chris Leonard
• Frederick Grose

Notes

Our conference host was missing, and so it was not until 01:40 pm EDT that we got the conference line open (thanks to getting the host PIN from Mika, who had no phone access).

Our apologies to all of you who tried to attend.

At 01:40 only Chris Leonard was online with Frederick Grose. We had a good chat as noted below:

1. We talked about our limited understanding of the software and network infrastructure for enabling 'content'. I suggested we look at the Library activity, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library, as one model. We agreed that being able to tag content with meta data, like regional applicability, would be highly desirable. I believe that the upcoming revisions to the Journal data store will make tagging easier. For the Animal Health project, for example, it would very helpful to allow communities to find information specific to their geographical environment.

   (Subsequent thought: Wondering if there is a zoning taxonomy, like the Hardiness zones used for plants, that might be suitable for the Animal husbandry information.)

2. Chris shared the idea that we could benefit from having a template cover letter to help open the doors for recruiting new participants, especially those subject matter experts who are not familiar with the open source technology culture. He plans to post some draft work on our Health project wiki.
3. I suggested that having specific projects described (like Animal health) were valuable concrete examples to attract interested recruits from broader communities. Approaching 4H chapters and agricultural extensions may lead to more volunteers who see the potential benefits. It should also be attractive to those deployments in agricultural communities (consider those confronting bird flu, for example).
4. Chris shared some links to http://orbis.org/ for potential consultation for the Vision screening project, and http://oercommons.org/ for review of other open education resources and examples.
5. We talked about getting critical subject matter and project advisory help for the Health project, and decided we should publish a parallel to the 'Ask OLPC a Question' page for the Health project. Perhaps, a 'Health project advisory page' with a section for the Advisers specifically, but also a place to grow an 'OLPC Health FAQ' for all current and potential participants. I offered to draft such a page.

Thanks for reading! --Frederick Grose, FGrose 23:43, 16 March 2008 (EDT)