KM4Dev Core Group 7 September 2012 Meeting

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Items on the agenda:

  • 1)KM4dev facilitation/administration (Dgroups and wiki)
    • Dgroups: Peter's proposal to switch every week or two weeks. Need to decide if we do this and who will coordinate/take care of the Doodle poll

Discussion points:

    • Currently, monthly coordination done by Lucie; would not want to do it if more frequent
    • Idea to share coordination - could take more time to organize; currently, the two monthly co-admins coordinate among themselves
    • Possibility to extend admin rights to other people and/or share tasks
    • Peter willing to take coordination if with a back-up person; Bruce offered to share tasks
    • Monthly admin rotation: don't fix it if it ain't broken
    • The two co-facilitators/admins are encouraged to document on the wiki their process during the month, register how many messages, topics, etc

ACTION POINTS:

    • Peter to update the Doodle poll
    • Peter, Bruce and Lucie to have an email discussion to clarify meta-admin (after Sept 22) and inform Core group



    • wiki: here is a snippet of a message from Davide: Lucie, I could set "contact@km4dev.org" as the contact address for notifications of new account requests, but that way I would have to 1) get username and password for that inbox; 2) manually access it from time to time in order to check whether somebody requested a new account, which is more time consuming than just going to http://wiki.km4dev.org/Special:ConfirmAccounts.

My suggestion is that we revise the mechanism and set up a simple mailing list, so that all the people willing to manage new account requests can receive notifications directly in their personal inboxes. Adding/removing people to the group of admins would be as easy as adding/removing their email addresses from the mailing list. The email address of the mailing list could be, for example: "account-requests@km4dev.org". Every time a new user would request an account on the wiki, a notification would be sent to the mailing list and therefore forwarded to the current admins, who could approve the new account in a timely fashion.



'I can only specify one address, so as of now I am the only one who receives an email notification of new account requests. Using the address of a mailing list would overcome the problem.

  • 2)Status of IFAD funded activities
    • Focused conversations (internal, external)
    • CT Lab
    • SNA
    • L&M
    • KM4Dev event
    • Other?
  • 3)Planning actions on pointers from various activities (e.g. SNA, L&M etc.)

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