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 [[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 19:30, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
+== Community Meetings - an alternate option  ==
+I've been thinking about these community meetings for a while now, and I think that we may want to look at restructuring them to better fit who our current audiences are that may need the most help at the moment. Six months down the road we may need something completely different, so this can be constantly re-evaluated.
+There are a few guiding principles that have been on my mind, mostly what I've learned from everyone else but just want to get written down, feel free to edit this list if you feel anything is out of place:
+:#Let people know ahead of time what topic will be covered - have rotating topics (30 mins?)
+:#Allow a Q&amp;A part of the call (30 mins?)
+:#Give people the resources for where they go to learn more - don't try to cover everything in the call
+:#In every call, remind attendees about some of the basic organizational structure of items in the wiki so that they don't feel like they need to wait for a meeting to discuss or ask questions:
+::*How to communicate with others when you have questions
+::*How to find out what needs there are in the wiki
+::*(This would be something different for each type of call - for example, the "using the wiki" webinar below would talk about say the navigation on the right in every call)
+Regarding the meetings themselves, I think there are 3 main audiences we want to meet with on a regular basis so that as we talk to and bring new users in, they will have a place to go to give them guidance as they get started:
+:#Using the Wiki in Research (monthly - this could actually be just a webinar to teach "users" of the wiki how to find what they are looking for. Not for contributors, though there could be a "plug" for those users at the end to know where to go for more information.)
+:#Wiki Contributors (weekly - but could alternate classes between beginning contributors and experienced contributors)
+:#Wiki Support and Maintenance (weekly - and there's got to be a better name for all of that - Wiki Polishing? Don't want to be too clever, but don't want it to sound bland and boring either)
+:#Technically a 4th one could be Moderators and Adopters (monthly) - though this may not be a "Support" responsibility, it would be good to talk about it in conjunction with the others
+Thoughts? Should we call them Webinars rather than Meetings? That seems to be the new buzzword these days. :) But Webinar really gets across the idea of teaching, whereas meetings get across an idea of "getting things done." I guess all but the Support one could be considered a Webinar; the support one may be more of a meeting than the others.
+[[User:VasquezJL|janellv]] 20:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)