Chriswaterguy's priorities in outcomes
Here are the suggestion goals, prioritized. It was hard to do as they're all good, and i could easily rearrange them again... but here is my first take on these priorities:
- be recognized as the leaders and go-to people for peer-produced appropriate technology information on the internet, and have appropedia leaders (as individuals) cited in at least 3 print publications as such
- get at least 5 university courses on 3 different continents to integrate Appropedia into their course assignments. Adds content, sometimes of very high quality, enlarges the network, brings new people into the community, improves the diversity - including linguistic diversity.
- during the year of 2009, double the number of articles on our site - Having a comprehensive knowledge base is a big part - the main part - of our reason for being. I'm actually aiming higher than double, but the principle is good. See Appropedia:Finding content, Category:Appropedia content development
- publish a weekly newsletter - We plan to put out at least a monthly newsletter to start. I think we could maybe go fortnightly later, but I wouldn't want to make it more frequent unless we had a lot more resources. This is largely a means, a way to help build the network and community to achieve the other ends, so it's a bit hard to put it in here.
- during the year of 2009, have at least N articles passed through this <insert link here> peer review and revision process, and at the end of 2009 have a published (lulu!) book of the best of those articles - or all of them, depending on the value of N. Developing a quality subset of pages, and demonstrating that we have that, will be powerful both for the value of Appropedia, and for the perception of it. It would also be an example of leadership in the wikisphere.
- every month, have 2 press-ready stories of actual developing-world deployments of technologies described on our wiki, and try to get them into mainstream and not-so-mainstream media
- engage a group (or groups) of international development students to design and deploy instruments to measure Appropedia's impacts, as a research project for them to learn with; be able to publish preliminary status reports from at least 3 groups by October '09. Having concrete benchmarks could really help us focus, and maybe figure out what works.
- partner with at least 10 appropriate tech conferences/summits/camps by serving as their documentation/ideas repository (as in IDDS) as well as the focal point for all their online backchannels/comunications (offer subsidiary services like twitter tag tutoring - or better yet, identi.ca - social network setup, mailing list hosting...) Great - getting the idea out there that Appropedia is the place to collaborate and share info on all projects in this space.
- hold at least 6 appropedia content sprints, one on each non-Antarctican continent. Content, great... it's less specific than say the idea of documenting tech conferences, and we haven't made much progress doing these in the past (hard to get commitment, though that will change as Appropedia gets bigger and more exciting) so I feel there needs to be something to actually bring people together.
- set up and deploy an appropriate technology community mentorship program, in 3-month rounds (first round northern summer '09, complete at least 2 rounds before the end of the year. This looks really valuable, but it's not something I'm focused on, and I think it's less directly relevant to our mission than the other suggestions.
- have at least 2 dozen contributors to planet appropedia, with at least 5 substantial posts per week. Would be nice, and a source of content, and happy to solicit contributions, but not sure how it directly impacts on our mission.
--Chriswaterguy 15:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Mchua's top 3
I think the three of these would work well together as manageable goals for the 2009 year. The rest of the things I'd put on a "not to do" or "we'll think about it again in 6 months" list so that the top 3 can really be a focus. Mchua 15:44, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- get at least 5 university courses on 3 different continents to integrate Appropedia into their course assignments.
- engage a group (or groups) of international development students to design and deploy instruments to measure Appropedia's impacts, as a research project for them to learn with; be able to publish preliminary status reports from at least 3 groups by October '09.
- during the year of 2009, have at least N articles passed through this <insert link here> peer review and revision process, and at the end of 2009 have a published (lulu!) book of the best of those articles - or all of them, depending on the value of N. Developing a quality subset of pages, and demonstrating that we have that, will be powerful both for the value of Appropedia, and for the perception of it. It would also be an example of leadership in the wikisphere.