Minutes from the REALISE Virtual meeting 25th August, 2010

Apologies from Ross

Minutes of previous meetings read with items signed off and actions taken forward.

Outstanding items not on the Agenda

  • JISC meetings with support and synthesis team

Sept 7th 2010 online Mike to attend organised by Simon Whitmore – Mike will relay news from the meeting. Action: MW

  • Ross will be attending Innovation meeting and to feedback to team
  • Ross will supply governance models for agreement by the team. Still to be actioned RG

Possible clarification needed from Ross and Rowan about ‘AT business model and licence differentiation tool’ Need to think about inviting Advisory Group, business community and JISC TechDis to interactive workshop on the subject – clarify time and days – I day workshop – 6 days work and one free.

Steve to supply ‘AT governance and community differentiation tool’ and may have a workshop with developers, professionals, JISC TechDis, carers and users.  Steve to provide estimate of days needed to complete this task. Action: SL

The work above should be linked to the REALISE project as well as client projects

  • RAATE Workshop –Accepted – need to work on paper and workshop Action All
  • Need to make a section for research – look at what other countries are doing – Peter has link to Harvard research on the subject, ? Australia.  Still to be Actioned ALL

  • Clear definition of what we mean by open innovation compared to the JISC BCE Open innovation (OI) Action PC if poss.

  • Need to engage with companies such as Sirius to see how we can help them and vice versa. _ Steve knows Mark Taylor CEO Action SL – discussed and care needed as to the specifics of this link up re: AT use in schools on a Linux platform.

Agenda Items

  • Southampton to confirm contractual agreements

David Woolley has sent an agreement for Sheffield.  Peter said that several universities have a standardised collaboration agreement and this includes Sheffield and Southampton and Barnsley Hospital have agreed (inc. D4D)

  • AAATE papers Action All to be completed as soon as possible.
  • Advisory Group accepted –  Mike Wald, Peter Cudd, Steve Lee, Ross Gardler, E.A. Draffan, Garry Paxton. Lester Gilbert, Gary Wills, Nasser Siabi, Clare Chiba, Mark Hawley. Action: EAD and MW to write email of thanks, terms of reference – invite to project realise mail list.
  • Possibly make this a virtual meeting and ask the Advisory Group to the workshops planned by Ross and Steve. Possibly 15/16th and following weeks in Sept set up on Doodle.com Action: EAD
  • Project Web Site – logo design

Logo drawn -EA thanked Joe from LSL for help – it was accepted – Steve provided Website requirements analysis for phase 1. This did not include full functional specification but made reference to ATIB database and other features.

  • Evaluation methods for the site and logging etc.

Discussed the various services tested and agreed to continue with Linkedin API development – future criteria based on present analysis.  Discussed evaluation of various open source evaluation tools for logging, usage and user satisfaction with site.  Steve felt we may have been a bit hard on the Drupal system. (Comment added see evaluation) EAD to take forward.

  • Website initial requirements – fields for idea generation – Title, Summary (limited character count 100), Longer Description (free field), minimal category of AT (need to be able to choose multiple categories) – allow for a category to be added by user. Always ability to hide or remove their own ideas.  – More ideas to be sent to team. Need to be able to search other websites for open source ATs. Action: Provide sample framework – Soton team for further discussion.
  • AOB – Need to explore future opportunities for funding to ensure sustainability. Action: All
  • Date of next Meeting:  Start Skype meeting for team early 15-16th Sept and other dates to be put on www.doodle.com Action: EAD