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Protocol for initial meeting for the semester project "Traditional Knowledge"
Date: 03.03.2009
Participants: km, lr, ms, sp, sn, vh
Protocol writtn by: sn
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Deadlines 09.03.2009 - final day for people to become part of the project. who is going to announce this date by mail?
- letting new people to add their ideas as well
- if enough new people are coming we organize a meeting on this day as well for an introduction on what has been done until then
two other important deadlines shall be taken in mind 18.05.2009 (CP2) - delivery of intermediate reports which includes
- a small poster DIN A3
- a showcase paper with presentation of the project, 1-2 pages
- intermediate report with progress description, state of the project
- initial website
09.2009 - delivery of final project and report (begin of the third semester, which date exactly?)
- final report
- final website
- final poster
- handbook
- …
Tuning our objectives We need to agree on a sound and valid definition of
- traditional knowledge
- indegenous knowledge
- local knowledge
- …
To take in mind
- the decision for individual topics on TK shall have a common denominator in order to avoid that the semester project becomes just a collection of single works instead of a sound and round up publication.
- we shall take the pros and cons of the usage of TK into account(ie.can TK be an obstacle for development).
- be non-ideological
- the scheduled semester project hours could also be used to get a hand on different managment tools (mindmaps, flipcharts, whatever)
- literature research can include
- searching for literature 😛
- contacting organizations/individuals that are active in this field
- …
Organisation definition of an organizational structures
- how to moderate meetings and discussions (fixed/rotating moderator/protocol writer? no moderation at all?)
- setup of an Ilias group (done by lr who grants us administrator rights as well or change settings so that we can add content)
- all project members and tutors will be added
- open for the others to see group content (sn can investigate on to set permission rights in order to do that)
- introduction to online research tool Zotero for the case that
- everybody agrees on using it for communication
- http://www.zotero.org/
- creation of an online repository where everybody can add his found
- literature to share with the other group members
- do we use a project management tool?
- online/collaborative
- open source
- ms project
- none at all
- usage of a blog for showing project progress and also let others see how we work on problems and which tools/concepts we use -> transperancy
- sn proposes to open a blog at http://noblogs.org or http://blogsport.de
- for an introduction on how to start editing a Wikipedia article we shall ask Martin from the Jordan semester who is now at the ITT and participated in writing the articles for the energy sector in Jordan
- all found (web) resources that are put in Ilias (or Zotero) shall be described shortly in order to give an impression to the others
- language in mails and text conversation is English
- personal meetings can be held in German or English depending on the preferences of the people (initial agreement is for German)
- shall we use a chat or maybe even conference software(open source) for virtual meetings?
ToDo 23.03.2009
start of the semester project and first official meeting according to the schedule for ss09 we decided to solve several issues until then. these include:
- completing of the group (until 09.03.2009)
- definition of the term "Traditional Knowledge" in the context of our project
- definition of an initial time schedule with some important "milestones"
- decision on organizational structures and infrastructure
- starting with literature research to find the topics that are of interest for the single participants of the project
- real life meeting with the whole group before the first official semester lessons (09.03.09 < meeting < 22.03.09)