Meeting Notes Feb 27 2008
UROP STUDENTS
*Potential UROP students were introduced, Lauren and Valerie. Lauren discussed what she might be interested in, was “pretty open.”
DHANA-MARIE
*13 Minutes left in transcription
*Aleta talked about VideoAnt (can it do audio?) and would look into transcription software
*Moodle set up: File drawers or for “cleaning up the mess”—Marcia and Dhana-Marie to talk about
*Up through P in cleaning up bios
*Went to meeting with undergrads, working on presentation for classrooms (test presentation in Dhana-Marie’s class
D-M NEXT:
*Interested in interviewing local writers
*Continuing above
MARCIA
*Down through M in cleaning up bios
*Style sheet
*Take off “new” label from non-new bios
*Children’s books—compile info about children’s authors on site
*Did the “edited to be coded” bios; will help D-M with some coding issues
*Also going through critiques for dead links
*Emails from instructors interested in using site in their class; other emails
MLQ NEXT:
*Will work on information-architecture issues w/Adam
*Will work on ways to involve students w/D-M and Kim
*Continuing above
MARIA
*Submitted grant app for $20K
*Feasibility of $250K grant?
*Should VG stay in English?
*We want to interview
MARIA NEXT
*Will work on guest speaker for spring event
*Will look into VG class for fall—what happened? Can we still have it?
*Continuing above
KIM
*Class presentations—D-M reminds that we need to focus on the “what’s in it for me” angle
*Student organization
*Spring event (Lind 150, budget, small open mic and featured readers—Maria will look into this if Kim emails her reminder)
*General “marketing stuff”
KIM NEXT
*Will start student organization
*Will send out boilerplate email and start classroom presentations
ADAM
*Dreamweaver (server situation)
*Mockups/redesign
*Google Analytics report
ADAM NEXT
*Will port to Dreamweaver
*Will look into updating Dreamweaver
*Will begin on redesign
*Will add “donate” button
REDESIGN ISSUES
*What should we push?
*Maria: Interviews
*Marcia: More interactive content—blogs in book reviews, guest blogs, other forms of networking/interaction?
*Donate button (Adam)
*Multiple “axes” of affiliation (or, as Aleta says, tags)
GRANT ISSUES, ORPHANS
*Soros Foundation—who was going to look into this?