View source for KM4D Journal - Minutes of editors' meeting of 1 April 2015

<b>PRESENT:</b> Ewen Le Borgne, Ivan Kulis (notes), Lucie Lamoureux, Sarah Cummings <br>
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<b>i. NEW ASSESSMENT SHEET</b><br>
Discussion:<br>
- Lucie to send the sheet to the editors for the feedback, than to the KM4Dev, asking the group to provide examples of other sheets used in other journals.<br>
- Objective is to broaden the sheet to include more practice-oriented articles. Lucie will flag the areas that could be broadened, and propose alternative criteria<br>

<b>==>ACTIONS:</b><br>
==> Lucie to send the sheet to the editors for the feedback, than to the KM4Dev.


<b>ii. JOURNAL ISSUES</b><br>

Discussion<br>
- December issue online<br>
- May issue coming together well. We can expect 7-8 articles, pretty interesting and complementary. Editorial coming together very nicely. Ewen was stimulated by the work, will starts a parallel blog on the facilitation.<br>
- Linda has been very quick editor, and asked the right questions, and Sarah proposed that she is invited as regular editor.<br>
- Older issues : Leah uploading, under guidance from Sarah. She should be involved in the marketing and promotion discussion.<br>
- September 2015 issue : 3 submitted so far. In order to get more articles, we should invite all the old authors from the system, and send a message on the KM4Dev list. If we don't get enough submissions, we can work together on the "alternative article type” issue such as interviews, blog posts, etc.<br>
- December 2015 : Brainstorming postponed until we have more clarity on the AgKnowledge Innovation. Another possible topic could be : KM4ARD.<br>
<b>==>ACTIONS: </b><br>
==> Sarah to ask Linda to become a regular editor.<br>
==> Sarah to invite Leah in the next meeting on the marketing / promotion topic. Ensure the call is scheduled to accomodate +10 hrs time difference.<br>
==> Sarah to scope more info on the Kenya paper, whether they can make the article information management oriented.<br>
==> Sarah to send the invitation to the past authors through the system.<br>
==> Ivan to draft the September issue mail the KM4Dev list.<br>

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<b>iii. PROMOTION</b><br>
Discussion:
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- We did not prepare for this meeting. Postponed for the next meeting, but will be put as the key topic on the next agenda.<br>
<b>==>ACTIONS: </b><br>
==>  All : prepare the feedback on the promotion handbook
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<b>iv. EDITORIAL BOARD SURVEY</b><br>
Discussion:
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- Going out this month.<br>
<b>==>ACTIONS:</b>
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==>  Sarah to send out the survey in April.
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<b>v. "SUPERISSUES" based on part articles</b> <br>
Discussion:<br>
- We discussed how to present/package them. The proposed formula was : blog post or editorial + providing reference to the articles<br>
- We agreed that we would try to feed into the upcoming events : blog post would be timely, and we can talk with the organisers about the distribution.<br>
- We identified two topics. Ewen will flag the e-learning articles for the e-learning Africa conference, while Sarah would take the lead on CoP topic <br>
- We also agreed to run the competition of the favorite article of 2014. We will ask the community to identify the article that "stimulated you most in your thinking or practice".<br>

<b>==>ACTIONS:</b><br>
==> Ewen to flag the e-learning articles in preparation for the next meeting.<br>
==> Lucie to ask Rebecca about the distribution e-learning superissue distribution.<br>
==> Sarah to identify the CoP for the May meeting.<br>
==> Lucie to retrive the submissions in the editor-future issues.<br>
==> IK to put the super issues on the agenda next time as well.<br>
==> Sarah to send the draft mail to the Editors on 2014 article competition : the article that stimulated the most thinking, by 12 April.<br>
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<b>vi. Misc.</b><br>
- IK will organise the editor meetings until June (included).
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