Meetings at the Jabbla, Widgit and AssistiveWare stands.
Agenda
Welcome
1. Focus group discussions taken from items 1 & 6 from last week – expectations on what can be achieved from each group – impact on timeline (April)
2. Advisory Group – Further decisions – letter to each of the advisors explaining the project and involvement as an advisor.
3. Web services – update on progress – online database for symbol comparisons.
4. Symbol choices taken from items 4 & 6 – update from the partners – impact on timeline (April).
5. Core Vocabulary taken from items 5 & 8 – Availability of Arabic vocabulary – implication of the types of words within the core vocabularies and how this affects symbol sets – impact on timeline (April)
6. Staffing update
7. Development of a timeline for work packages once contracts in place.
8. AOB and next meeting – Doha March 15-18th, 2014.
This virtual meeting will allow us to get over the minutes from the time we had in Doha. We will be able to discuss the issues that have been arising with core vocabularies and multi-word symbols.
The planned Agenda includes
1. Focus group
Update from Tullah regarding meetings with members of the forum since its inception.
2. Advisory Group
Dr Sarah Parsons and Dr Chris Abbott have confirmed their acceptance as critical friends -Discussion about other possible critical friends.
3. Discuss need for an online discussion group system for the forum
Who will be setting up the Google Group and were the forum members happy with this idea as a way of spreading news and gaining feedback.
4. Making Symbol Choices
Discussion about the website for making symbol choices with example pages.
5. Staffing update
Interviews for a speech therapist/linguistics specialist. Possible support for symbol/graphic designs
6. Development of a timeline for work packages once contracts in place.
Are there any necessary changes to be made to the timeline – Gantt chart
1st year Gantt chart
7. First six month report.
Mike has sent round the template – we need to discuss the main points to be included.
8. AOB
9. Next meeting date and time