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Mike S

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Jun 9, 2010, 6:08:04 PM6/9/10
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Hi everyone,

some of us met today and bounced around some ideas of how we might
process the introductions we have. Some really good ideas came about,
but we were a little deflated because the quality of the audio on
skype was poor.

So we concluded that we would each go off and think about how we could
move forward and process the introductions, write a short summary of
our approach, open to comments by the rest of the group and then meet
on Friday (on a more reliable global conference platform) and pick one
and move forward.

Please add the ideas you have for the review process here:
http://yourteamneedswomen.wikispaces.com/Ideas+for+how+we+process+introductions

Please add the ideas for any other part of the program here:
http://yourteamneedswomen.wikispaces.com/ideas+for+the+program

Please comment ( I wish I could create subpages :( )

cheers
Mike.

ps. I have signed up with onconference.com so we should be able to
have high quality conferences wherever you are now, plus it does great
web conferencing for when we want to share desktops etc.



Lisa Crispin

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Jun 9, 2010, 6:40:16 PM6/9/10
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Thanks, Mike, I've added my ideas/questions.
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D.André Dhondt

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Jun 10, 2010, 4:22:39 AM6/10/10
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Mike, Lisa... can't comment much now 'cause I'm at the airport, but I like the process.  I think that there needs to be a cutoff date, at which point the committee tries to find a diverse and interesting set of 10 or 12 people out of the already narrowed list of "compelling stories" to move on to the interview process. Not that anyone is more deserving, just that as a group it tells an interesting story....
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Mike Sutton

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Jun 10, 2010, 5:53:45 AM6/10/10
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I have responded to Lisa's comments... http://yourteamneedswomen.wikispaces.com/Ideas+for+how+we+process+introductions

If we take a flow approach to this, we can get started now - there
isn't really an interview phase (where all interviews are done) - they
happen as required (with as much co-ordination as possible with a
distributed group of volunteers!). But it means that we should see
stuff coming through at a steady pace and can evolve the content
quickly.

As for a cut off date - I agree we need one for the exhibition - but
not convinced for one in filtering. There is a cut off for final
exhibition editing - by which time all video content that we will have
in the conference exhibition will need to be in (I'm setting this July
26th - a week before the conference starts). Although in practice we
would be compiling the exhibition as video comes in, so its not a big
bang at the end.

If I re-order the list based on geography and get every (in groups of
4) to vote on the women's stories as introduced, we can get a
generally sound order. Then we split into pairs and start at the top
and work our way down. Each pair can take one introduction all the way
to the end. The end being either a face2face interview, a remote video
interview, a phone interview or writing an inspiring account of the
women's story (with pictures) for the website.

Right now, with the numbers we have, we can start 3-4 stories. My
instinct is that these will not all be face2face and typically should
take about a week to complete (the non face2face ones). Its just
instinct :)


Please let me know what you think.

Mike

shanna leonard

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Jun 11, 2010, 11:53:25 AM6/11/10
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I added a page with some ideas.

>> D. Andr� Dhondt

winifred...@ieee.org

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Jun 11, 2010, 11:59:19 AM6/11/10
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I added some comments/ideas on the process.

Are we meeting today?

W

On Jun 10, 5:53 am, Mike Sutton <wizew...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have responded to Lisa's comments...http://yourteamneedswomen.wikispaces.com/Ideas+for+how+we+process+int...
> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Mike S <wizew...@googlemail.com>  
> > wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > some of us met today and bounced around some ideas of how we might
> > process the introductions we have. Some really good ideas came about,
> > but we were a little deflated because the quality of the audio on
> > skype was poor.
>
> > So we concluded that we would each go off and think about how we could
> > move forward and process the introductions, write a short summary of
> > our approach, open to comments by the rest of the group and then meet
> > on Friday (on a more reliable global conference platform) and pick one
> > and move forward.
>
> > Please add the ideas you have for the review process here:
> >http://yourteamneedswomen.wikispaces.com/Ideas+for+how+we+process+int...
>
> > Please add the ideas for any other part of the program here:
> >http://yourteamneedswomen.wikispaces.com/ideas+for+the+program
>
> > Please comment ( I wish I could create subpages :( )
>
> > cheers
> > Mike.
>
> > ps. I have signed up with onconference.com so we should be able to
> > have high quality conferences wherever you are now, plus it does great
> > web conferencing for when we want to share desktops etc.
>
> > --
> > Lisa Crispin
> > Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for  
> > Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
> > Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
> >http://lisacrispin.com
> > @lisacrispin on Twitter
>
> > --
> > D. André Dhondt
> > mobile: 011 33 671 034 984
> > twitter: adhondt  http://dhondtsayitsagile.blogspot.com/
>
> > Support low-cost conferences --http://AgileTour.org/
> > If you're in the area, join Agile Phillyhttp://www.AgilePhilly.com- Hide quoted text -
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