[esocialaction] open doc proposal - Roles and Finance

[Dearden, Andrew M]

Hi All

I'm all in favour of doing things on teh wiki where possible, but I have found in the past that writing proposals by wiki is very
difficult. It is less clear who is going to make sure the proposal actually gets finished and submitted on time. My understanding
is that we are hoping that Yuwei & Marlene will submit the outline proposal next week (20th)

We have very little time left.

I would like to suggest the following allocation of people to roles.

Needs analysis: 
Andy (myself), Ann Light, David Wilcox - 

It would help to have someone from outside the UK as part of this work. I have a couple of possible contacts (David Casacuberta in
Barcelona, Fiorella de Cindio in Milan) who might be interested. If no-one on the list from outside the UK wants to sign up, I
will contact one or both of them.

Tool development / integration 
Tactical tech? Giles Lane (proboscis)?, Cinelera?, Soenke Zehle? 
We don't have anyone listed as yet as specifically interested in co-ordinating the development work. This is critical. Are any of
the people listed here interested in taking this on board (obviously at a very provisional level right now).

The point here is that the initial proposal should make some suggestion as to an approximate budget for the project. We may be
doing back of the envelope stuff here, but we should have an idea of the kind of amounts we are talkign about, and the time scale.

Documentary making / testing
I still think we need someone to offer the specific skills in community documentary making - Ginny at Voluntary Arts may be able
to help. Who else would be interested from outside the UK?

Training workshops: 
Leonie Ramondt (ultralab) ?
Steve Thompson
Again, a non-UK / non English speaking line would be helpful.


Evaluation:
Ann Light, Steve Thompson, Andy Dearden, Yuwei Lin & Marleen 

Assuming that we want this to be a 3 year project, what kinds of finance would people be looking for. 

For my own place I'd be thinking about about 220 - 250K Euros - this would employ a research assistant for 3 years, plus some
money to cover my time (about 1 day per week), plus some money for travel. 


Andy


Andy Dearden
Communications & Computing Research Centre
ACES
Harmer Building
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield
S1 1WB
UK

email: a.m.dearden at shu.ac.uk
Tel: 0114 225 2916
Fax: 0114 225 3161 

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> Subject: Re: [esocialaction] open documentary project - draft proposal
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for showing your interest in the project.
> 
> I'm trying to narrow down the project to a more doable level. It is 
> possible that we will cooperate with TacticalTech 
> (http://www.tacticaltech.org) and incorporate their practical 
> activities 
> with the research activities. To make this incorporation 
> easier, I have 
> listed three main research duties essential in this project: 
> 1) mapping 
> user requirements/needs for new media toolset (need assessment); 2) 
> facilitating training workshop (teaching users how to use the 
> new media 
> toolset in a local level); 3) evaluation. Can all interested 
> people go 
> to the wiki page and put your name and affiliation in the 
> category you 
> wish to participate? Cheers.
> 
> /yuwei
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