Dc-ri-rooms

Digital City RI -- Afternoon 30-minute room topics

Three outcomes from the room breaks:

• What can be done by March 30?
• What can be done by June 30?
• What can be done immediately?

End of day Reflections

• We need a searchable resource

• We need to meet again soon

• Need to get people in the same place/time and carry on the conversation

• The whole notion of an inventory - we need to put that together before the next steps.

GROUP 1 VISIBILITY: Pivot Room

• Mark, Allison, Jeannine, Devin, Cheryl, Valerie, Gary

Key Discussion Points:

• We thought about many of our audiences: kids, the university, the sorts of programs (including state wide summer reading program and CF Cinema.

• Step 1.: Create online collaborative space. In between our first step and March 30th talk with librarians and educators and ask them what they want documented.

• By March 30th: collaborated on creative project

• By June 30th: Production Plan in place (with fundraising)

• And be able to detail who we will document (who/when/where)

GROUP 2 CONVENINGS/EVENTS Whiplash Room

• Shey, Rich, Katherine, Chris, Renee, Joe, Suzanne

Key Discussion Points:

• Talked about having a shared calendar and breaking the silos between initiatives. How can we maximize what's out there and not reinvent the wheel.

• First goal: Calendar of events that exist already.

• Second goal: Series of monthly events to build community

• Search-engine optimization (SEO), face to face community building, etc.

GROUP 3 COLLABORATION NETWORK: Main Space

• Thom, Sherry, Bethany, Bill, Mark C, Julianna, Wendy

Key Discussion Points:

Immediate next step: get our group together to focus and a next meeting date.

First quarter: ID what exists (forums/groups/etc.)

ID small group/advisory group to get together

Do environmental scan with that group

Next quarter: prototype of the database

By Fall of 2014: Have a database to list directory of sorts (skill sets from K-16) or searchable database.

Want to be able to include projects in database.