March 7 2008 uCamp Planning

March 7, 2008 - JA-Sig uCamp Planning Meeting 

Attendees:

Allison, Paul, Colin, Gary, Barbara, Eli, Erin

Topic:

uCamp Goals:

• General understanding of interaction design and UCD
• Low-cost techniques to get people started:
• Audience from Kuali Student:
  • Business analysts
  • UI coders

BOF - pre-uCamp

• Have BOF before uCamp for KS
  • meet them
  • find out issues
  • round table format
  • we can think of possible topics

Post Conference Workshops - Thursday or Friday

Workshops after conference: (Paul)

• KS staying for TH, F
• secured space in public school, with wireless, projector, etc
• topics??
• who is interested from KS (Allison will follow up with Tim)
• Paul will talk with his KS contact on what the workshop topics should be

Coordination of uCamps in general

• who will be doing this?
• Anyone interested? Paul (short term for JA-Sig)

Facilities for uCamp

• corner of barcamp room
• separate room, still organizing (Paul)

Crowd Vine Social Networking

• conference participants
• pre and during conference
• facebook for conference participants!
• tagging, profiles, photos, blogging
• discussion threads?

Stickers for Attendees

Interest Stickers for Fluid and UE stickers for each UX conference participant

Next Steps

• Paul and Allison will follow up with their Kuali Student contacts to see who is attending and what topics might interest them for:
  • BOF
  • uCamp
  • Post- conference workshops
• Still need Topics for:
  • uCamp (1 - 2 more talks needed)
  • Lightning talks...think of ideas and sign up!
  • Post- Conference workshops - so far no topics.  We need to find out what KS is interested in and then start signing up
• Paul and Barbara to talk next week about Paul assuming coordinator tasks going forward.