[Seek-taxon] FW: April and May Meetings

[Kennedy, Jessie]

Hi Jim

I remember we had a discussion about the May meeting being shorter than originally planned but can't find this documented in any email/wiki page/calendar. Can you remind me what the final dates of the meeting are to be please.

thanks,

Jessie  

>-----Original Message-----
>From: seek-taxon-bounces at ecoinformatics.org
>[mailto:seek-taxon-bounces at ecoinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Beach, James
>H
>Sent: 28 March 2005 17:30
>To: seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org
>Cc: Pam Griego; William Michener
>Subject: [Seek-taxon] April and May Meetings
>
>
>
>Dear All:
>
>Bill Michener and I had a call this morning and later brought on Laura
>Downey into the conversation to discuss plans for the April 
>and May SEEK
>Taxon meetings.  We made some decisions that we feel make the 
>SEEK-Taxon
>process more efficient wrt the usability process we initiated in Santa
>Barbara.  It is important to realize that we are making the changes
>below in the best interest of the SEEK-Taxon process and of our
>collaboration.  We feel the changes will ultimately allow the 
>project to
>have more science impact, by making us better focused and 
>informed going
>forward.
>
>The April 26-27 meeting proposed for Denver will be changed to 
>a smaller
>meeting with Kate Jones, Laura Downey and Nico Franz, only, in
>Albuquerque.  Laura would also like to know if the dates could be moved
>up one day to Mon & Tues the 25th and 26th, if not, 26-27 are OK.  The
>LTER office will coordinate the housing and logistics.  The 
>meeting will
>be at the LTER offices.
>
>Bill and I in particular felt that this would be a much more reasonable
>expenditure concomitant with the fact that only a single 
>archetypal user
>or persona would be represented. This will unfortunately limit Kate's
>exposure to the visualization approaches and to other ideas about
>automating taxon processing tasks that we have, but the benefit is a
>less costly meeting and one that can serve as a prototype meeting for a
>broader usability process that Bill is willing to help pay for later in
>the summer.   Laura will come to the May meeting (as will Nico) and
>report on those results.
>
>For the May meeting, we would like not to invite any other potential
>users (and not Kate), but rather spend an extra day discussing the
>results of the tasks analysis interview with Kate Jones AND to plan for
>future usability process with a larger number of users in the
>summer-that would be some kind small workshop with more than one but
>fewer than 10 people which is focused on usability information 
>gathering
>and feedback to our ideas.  Bill and I (and Laura) see that as a much
>more effective way to allocate SEEK travel funds and to maximize the
>information content in meetings that are part of this process.
>
>This is a complex situation and one that represents compromise and some
>short-term sacrifice to be able to better structure the process of
>determining software engineering requirements and priorities on
>SEEK-Taxon.
>
>Jim
>
>
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>James H. Beach
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>University of Kansas
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