[esocialaction] Re: open doc proposal - Roles and Finance

[Yuwei Lin]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm copying this message to Marek at 
TacticalTech because they might be doing the practical work. I also wish 
there could be direct interaction between Marek and the list so that 
things get evolved more quickly.

> 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)

I'll be paying an academic visit to Italy next week and I don't think I 
can submit the proposal. I can help formulate it better though. 
Marleen's only participating remotely in this case.

> We have very little time left.

Yes.

> 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.

Marek: Could you please send in the task plan, budget plan and 
development timeline?

> 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 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: esocialaction-bounces at email-lists.org 
>>[mailto:esocialaction-bounces at email-lists.org] On Behalf Of Yuwei Lin
>>Sent: 12 September 2005 16:19
>>To: esocialaction at email-lists.org
>>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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