O Guild
From RCC 2007
[Introduction and overview from Brandon about what OpenGuild is]
What is it that people want from an OpenGuild?
- Credentialing
- A place to hang out
- bandwidth
- virtual space
- a network of such spaces / online as well
- mechanisms for better tools and ways to collaborate
- teaching ladder (mentoring, continuing education, developing skills)
- third-party credibility
- access to cool toys to play with
- getting access to information / resources
- organize and cooridnate projects that are larger than our small groups, and which require a diversity of resources we don't have access to
- conference and meeting space
- a person to answer the phone, take messages
- health care
Portland has a place called "Cubicle Space" where people can share office spaces
What do we have right here that can make this happen? Resources?
- Things we need and who's volunte:
- Julie has a friend who can co-work on the project
- SourceTree is a toolset for collaboration online and managing projects, etc ArthurBrock
- Domain names: OGuild.net,com,org (Brandon) http://oguild.org/Main_Page
- Email list (Julie C)
Things we need and who's volunteering to do them:
- wiki space - oguild.org - for community organizing (brandon set up http://oguild.org/Main_Page)
- shepherd of wiki space - (Gerry Gleason)
- Structure of Network - (Michael Maranda)
- Wagn card (Julie Caldwell)
- Develop Questions to help identify resources (Jean Russell)
- SourceTree (Arthur Brock, Mickki Langston,
- public facing o-guild whore (Alex)
- Server Space (Alex, Brandon)
- Sys Admin (windows and linux) (Alex)
Bill Trost also took notes -- they are likely highly redundant, but at least they're disjointed:
What wanted:
A teaching ladder. Continuing education, skills at a variety of levels.
A hangout to play together.
Staffed by people responsible for the space while they're there.
Cool equipment to play with.
Lotsa of bandwidth.
Virtual as well as physical space.
Credentialing organization. -- LPE
Online links between them.
Resources to extract the unsexy issues.
A Wikipedian-in-residence to get third-party credibility.
Ways to organize project with larger people, with diverse resources. Initiate, coordinate, and contract projects. Adds credibility.
Book exchange.
A credible interface to government and grantors.
Conference rooms/meeting space.
Someone to answer the phone -- onsite staff.
Health care.
There already exist Open Tech Business Center, Portland Business Center. Business friendly, came from a need for office space.
Share space with other like facilities across the country.
Resources
AboutUs has money to pay for rent.
Pravin(?) can bring in a client.
SourceTree for sharing code, managing projects, indexing them.
Domain names -- oGuild.com, oGuild.net, etc.
Bart, I think, was able to offer computing services.
How do you approach corporate people to show off your groovy new software.
The support/maketing communtiy needs its own levnel of support. This is like the multi-specializations.
Tension between tech communities and the normal-people communities.
A tension between invididuals doing things, and collective decisions.
Open Oregon -- a project that failed.
A page at RecentChangesCamp Wiki of people we wish were here.
Concrete contributions
Brandon will put up a concrete list on oGuild.org.
The session process in wiki wanted to have PageOwnership -- a person responsible for keeping each page cogent.
Michael offers to take ownership of the interstate networking page.
Jean will develop questions to help discover theresources avaliable.
Alex offers to go be a face for the organization (until he gets a real job (-: ).
The email list may be necessary for organization and alerts -- an Announce list.
Brandon will set up the ability to have oGuild email addresses as well as email list stuff, and a Wiki.
Alex thinks he can find a colocation location.
Brandon offers his colocated box at Stephouse.
Someone suggested a system administration swap for these sorts of servers. This also helps with shared commitment.
Alex offers to help with administration.
Everyone is expected to offer at least one edit.
Will we have physical space? Hopefully, but even a "chapter" is useful.
http://oguild.org/Main_Page
See also
Larger see http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=383519976&size=o
