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 (smile)
  • Paul and Barbara to talk next week about Paul assuming coordinator tasks going forward.