MeetingNotes-16Mar06

Attendance:

Main topic: What should be the long-term / short-term goals? (i.e. what is our strategy?)

Notes from brainstorming:

format that allows for easy write-up of "tech reports", tagging
what did we find useful during our development? compile / file
tools, "open STK", look fr existing open source "STK" (ITAR issues?)
- what does really fall under ITAR
- "Orbiter", programmed by Cambridge-based guy
idea would be to both collect and to "seed" framework
should framework provide a means for delivering value to collaborators?
- connection to industry
- build up a communicty
might use it as a workspace for our space architecture group
use it first without thinking about the big picture too much; allow it to grow
create a file / information sharing system; draw on existing systems (mediawiki)
use sourceforge / cvs
consistency is difficult to ensure with wiki
documentation best in one consistent document
combination of mediawiki and sourceforge
"dspace: MIT library system; intended to be static (adding, but no changing)
gforge: open source version of sorceforge
gforge.mit.edu
spacenet?
use blog-style starting page
"basecamp" milestones + messages
"writely": document editing tool; collaborative editing
mailman, archives of mailing lists
advocacy
educational tech reports / tutorials
infrastructure: sharing, development, community
possible near-term actions: create a logo (:D), scour the web, mailing list

Action Items:

"Scour the web" for possible content / existing information to pull in -- Wilfried
Corral our MIT space architecture group into using an initial framework -- Paul
Testing/identifying possible content management software -- Jeremy
Setup blog software / try out space news blog -- Bill
Setup server access for Jeremy and Mark -- Bill
Help wilfried with scouring the web -- Alex
Think through how to get more collaborators involved -- Alex
Setup Mailman server -- Mark

(Note: Person is lead for each item; in many cases others can help them out)

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