Notes from First AustinGO Community Advisory Group Meeting

[Chris]

Here are notes taken from the meeting, primarily by myself, Matt
Esquibel and Rita Noak. If you have notes you took, please share them
with us in this thread, or start a new one.

Apologies, I had formatted this to make it a little easier to read but
Google is removing that formatting.


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Notes from ACAG first meeting August 16, 2011

Attended by:
Austin Free-Net – Juanita Budd
CAN – Chantel Bottoms
Open Austin – Jace Deloney
CCET – Chip Rosenthal
MAIN.Org – Gene Crick
Austin Neighborhood Council – Carol Lee
LBJ School – Sherri R Greenberg
Chamber of Commerce – Beverly Kerr

Group’s interests/focus -

Open Austin is interested in more open efficient government...data
interests.

CAN - research analyst interested in data portal and representing
vulnerable populations in the community. Language translation.

Main.org - public and free access - using technology to bring people
together....to increase efficiency. Working together and
collaboration. “Web should be about more than online shopping.”

Austin Free-net - accurate and easy to find information

Community Technology and Telecommunications - Wanting to avoid
previous project pitfalls - wanting to be sure the community doesn't
get left behind for web 2.0 hipsters. Site needs to serve the needs of
the whole community.

Austin Chamber of Commerce - Research works on city website most days
- daily walks people through the city website to find things they are
looking for


Ideas/needs for the new site –

Sherri – Wants financial information on more than just FASD site

Gene – Wants there to be information that serve non-Internet users
needs that library personnel can access and assist the non-user

MAIN wants to increase the number of neighborhood association they
host. They would like for us to promote the opportunity to the NAs

Carol - What role do Neighborhood Associations have on what content
will be on the site?

Gene – Want to be involved on efforts of online emergency
notifications

Chantal – Asked about translation of content into multiple languages.

Carol – Concerned that we are in rapid development mode is not
conducive to ACAG input through meetings only on a once per quarter
schedule

Jace – wants to set up the Google Group – send him e-mail addresses

Chip – Also concerned with limitations of quarterly meeting schedule,
he wants to be closer to the development. Set up a terminal that they
could book time to log on and review site.

Gene – can we sell sponsorships to help with budget constraints