Meeting Recap and Update

[David Gordon]

G2'ers,

Thanks so much for meeting this evening.  Your patience and perseverance is much appreciated as we enter the home stretch!  Please let us know if you have any questions or comments on the below.

-D & K

Immediate Action Items

• Eric: No need to come in for lunch tomorrow; We'll meet with Jon and fill you in.
• Louis:  We'll run the Armitage idea up the flagpole.  Thanks again for the contact.  Also, we will get clarity on resistance to the "Wise Men" format and work towards a final resolution.
• Corey:  We'll move on the patrol idea once the date for the kick-off is locked-in.  We realize the urgency.  
• Annie:  Thanks for your flexibility on Saturday
• Team-wide: We will nail down a mutually-convenient time for a standing meeting once class schedules are locked-in.

Near-Term Priorities

Below please find a list of our near-term priorities.

ASAP:  

• Send Kelly and Dave the top sources on your issue(s) to include in the bibliography to Ambassador Shear.
• Communicate to Kelly and Dave which, if any, sources the library needs to put on reserve or order.

Friday, February 1 at 1300, Location TBD

• Jon and Matt back-brief of scouting trip. 
  

Saturday, February 2 from 1000 to 1300, Location: Library Room 7B

• Next G2 meeting. The purpose of this meeting will be to: 
• Update the character list and questions to accommodate changes in the itinerary and feedback from the scouting trip
• Begin matching participants with characters.

February 6:   

We promised to notify participants about their characters and questions by February 8.  To accomplish this, we need to complete the following steps by February 6:

• Complete character/question list.
• Match participants with characters.
• List relevant sources for each character in column F of the document entitled "Presentations schedule for adding research resources" in Dropbox.  (Note that additional readings can be outlined in one-on-one meetings.)

Longer-Term Priorities

February 22

Once the presentations are finalized, we need to begin pulling together the narrative.  We will create and use a Google Document to compile this information.  We envision the following process:

• Step 1:  Research leads will provide an example of an appropriate narrative segment to research staff. 
• Step 2:  Research staff will draft language for their characters by February 22.  Emphasis should be placed on 1) biographical details, 2) geographic/temporal context, and 3) any key information (e.g. important information that would have been provided by a character that we ultimately dropped).  Researchers should also include relevant primary sources, maps, etc. to be shared with participants at appropriate times - e.g. leak article.
• Step 3:  Research leads will review narrative with an eye towards harmonizing language and creating a cohesive story.
• Step 4:  Research staff will review revised narrative and provide comments.  
• Step 5:  Group meeting to finalize draft.  Date TBD.

In parallel with the narrative, we also need to divide up some additional tasks.  We will follow-up with each of you individually after our Feb. 6 deadline.  There is no need to get going on this until then.  

• Eric:  Given your mapping skills, we would like you to support Dee, our "Public Affairs Officer," with the fly-away book.
• Louis:  The Powell/Armitage event is all you.
• Anne:  We would like you to take the lead on the annotated bibliography for the DVs.
• Corey:  Patrol idea is all you. Also support to Annie in development of annotated bibliography.

Weekend of February 23-24:

 

• Meet one-on-one with participants playing your characters.  (Meetings with professors/DVs may need to occur at other times). 

[Kelly E Johnson]

And ignore the yellow highlighting! Sorry, the remnants of my editing...

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Kelly Johnson

M.A. Candidate, 2013

Strategic Studies and International Economics

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Johns Hopkins University

 

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[Louis Lauter]

Sounds good.  Were you guys going to send he charachter preferences?

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:27 AM, David Gordon <david.and...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Kelly E Johnson]

Yes. Sorry. I'll get that out ASAP.

Thanks for the reminder

-kj

[Kelly E Johnson]

Good morning everyone,

Sorry for the delay on this. Here is the list of people's character preferences for you to use while considering who you want to play what. In the end, we don't have to match people with their preferences but it's nice when we can.

This file is also saved in Dropbox under 2. Research/Character Identification

Kelly