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==Meeting Trigger==
[http://webmaster.tamu.edu/?p=1221 Stone Soup]

[[New Beginning]]

==Meeting Attendees==
<ul>
<li>Fred Rodriguez, AgIT</li>
<li>Arthur Oakley, ITS</li>
<li>David Smith, Div. of Finance IT Services</li>
<li>Carlos Carbo, CIS</li>
<li>Mark Mace, Dept. of Residence Life</li>
<li>Jim VanBeek, PPRI</li>
<li>Donald St. Martin, Coll. of Engineering</li>
<li>Robert Stackhouse</li>
<li>Rob Williams, Entomology</li>
<li>Jeff Carouth</li>
<li>Erick Beck</li>
<li>Craig Thompson, CIS Communications and Marketing</li>
</ul>

==Proposed Meetings and Talks==

<ul>
<li>Have 1 meeting per month with a topic</li>
<li>Don't feel you need to attend all of the meetings, but keep checking back on the wiki for the next meeting topic, or new information</li>
<li>After any kind of meeting, bring the notes back here to the group so the information can be shared with everybody</li>
<li>See what kind of media equipment is available (video cameras, microphones, etc.) so that we can get meeting/talk content up online</li>
</ul>

[[List of Proposed Meetings and Talks]]

===Voting for Proposed Meetings and Talks===
<ul>
  <li>Use an online survey to figure out what people are interested in hearing/talking about anonymously.
    <ul>
      <li>Survey Monkey? [Writing Center has a pro account we can use. --S.Leary]</li>
      <li>MediaWiki plugin?</li>
      <li>May ask Student Life Studies what they use.  They do a lot of surveys.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

==Attracting People to the Group==
===Person to Person Contact===
<ul>
  <li>Get notification from TAMU HR when new designers, developers, IT administrators, tech writers, etc. get hired.</li>
  <li>See if there are students on the list who would be interested in getting a table for UWeb at the Open House in the fall.
    <ul>
      <li>This may require a UWeb student organization</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Ask Howard Eilers to inform his students about UWeb in his Web Design class</li>
</ul>

===Online Presence===
<ul>
  <li>Put UWeb link on individual's blogs</li>
  <li>Use UWeb link as your homepage in online profiles if you don't have your own homepage
    <ul>
      <li>Facebook</li>
      <li>MySpace</li>
      <li>Linked In</li>
      <li>Twitter</li>
      <li>etc.</li>
      <li>Are Wiki profile pages publicly viewable?  OpenID? OAuth?</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>TAMU UWeb Twitter Account?
    <ul>
      <li>Write a script that tweets last edited page of UWeb wiki every 5 min or so?</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Invite people you know to join UWeb Facebook group</li> 
<li>Keep the listserv active, ask questions of your fellow IT staff</li>
</ul>

==Groups to Look to for Inspiration and Guidance in Shaping UWeb==
<ul>
  <li>Michigan UWeb</li>
  <li>[http://www1.unl.edu/wdn/wiki/Main_Page UNL Web Developer Network]</li>
</ul>

==Enhancing Discoverability of Information in IT/Designer/Developer Knowledge Base==
<ul>
  <li>Hook search.tamu.edu to UWeb wiki search box</li>
</ul>

==Sharing Workload==
[[Code Farm]]

==Keeping the Conversation Going==
<ul>
  <li>Get people to consume Recent Changes RSS feed and others to moderate the wiki every couple of hours or so.
    <ul>
      <li>You've got to contribute content in order for people to respond to it</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

==Online Sources of Information==
<ul>
  <li>[http://howdy.tamu.edu howdy.tamu.edu]</li>
  <li>[http://itforum.tamu.edu IT Forum]</li>
  <li>[http://admins.tamu.edu admins.tamu.edu]</li>
  <li>[http://it.tamu.edu it.tamu.edu]</li>
  <li>[http://itpro.tamu.ed itpro.tamu.edu]</li>
</ul>