Participants: Mathieu Plourde, Steven Foehr, Robin Hill, Nancy O'Laughlin, Janet deVry, Eddie Watson, John Moore, Tracey (UC Berkeley), Sue Roig.

Agenda Items

1. VA Tech Regional Conference Follow-Up

http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/MGT/Virginia+Tech+Regional+Conference+2008

• We are a little behind.
• Signed contract with hotel.
• Website for registration will be functional next week.
• Asked Mary Miles to be on this call next week.
• PROGRAM:
  • Plenary/keynote slots
  • 12 other slots to fill
  • 3 rooms (Auditorium 150 + 2 other rooms)
  • T&L room, Migration and adoption.
  • Flex space at the hotel, BOF room, Auditorium.
  • A faculty from VA Tech (Jen) could be a keynote. Did a lot of assessment, blogged about her experience with new CLE.
  • Panel of faculty
    • OSP
    • T&L
  • Invite new people into the conversation. Preference will be given to...
  • Basics of assessment? Could be interesting. With or without Sakai. Almost nothing in Paris.
  • Migration. (Salwa did a web page). Breakout into legacy LMS groups.
  • Winners of the TWSIA. Could be the kickoff of the Award. At least Aileen could be there in person.
• Follow-up next week

2. Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

TWSIA09 Planning

• Next steps:
  • Complete the plan
  • Ask IBM first
  • Get Josh and Michael involved first.
  • We should have a draft of a complete sponsorship plan next week to discuss.
    
• Judges:
  • Should we use the same judges from last year?
  • Ken would be willing to do it. Don't know about the other ones.
  • We could have one of the winners on the panel.
  • Insiders? Too many contacts in all colleges. Conflicts of interest.
  • Outsiders give us more visibility outside of the community.
  • We should have more than 3.
  • Janet will send our last's year email to Sue.
  • Do our judges want to be involved for many years to come?
  • This group should post a list of people they would like to contact.
  • Get someone from outside the US involved.
  • Give the first refusal to Karen and Ken?
  • Let's build a list and discuss it next week? Sent by email, not made public.
  • Need to put a note on confluence if you want to be involved in the judge selection process. Sue will manage that part.
    
• Application process:
  • Need to get in touch with Nate at another time slot.