After the meeting on 2nd September Chris Gray, Sue K and I had a follow-up meeting. We discussed the structure of our forthcoming activities for this month
I went through DIVAS COP on Ning with them and we agreed on the interface of Ning. We decided to keep the interface simple, clear and concise and we removed some features like video and music player as Ning only has a 10 Gb storage capacity. We have to pay for any extra space needed. We can always link these files (video & audio) if needed from HIVE once the linkage between Hive and Ning is up and running,
Chris G thought that Gadget feature can be removed as well because the 59 built-in Ning gadgets are not relevant to our community. These gadgets vary between games, igoogle gadgets, small flash programs, etc….
We decided on the date of launching our COP which will be 15th Sep and we will be asking award leaders to input their comments and views under New user & Expert User forums.
Expert Users:
* What advice/tips you would like to tell the new users of validation process?
* What pitfalls to avoid?
New Users:
* What matters concern you about the validation process?
* What information you would like to know?
This will be followed by an online event on Thursday 25th Sep for 2 hours in the afternoon “Ask the Experts: Validation Process” and supervised by 3 of us.
We agreed to have another face-to-face event “Introduction to Divas” in mid October in Stoke Campus to introduce the project to the stakeholders; this will be presented by Sue L, Chris Gray and myself.
I went through DIVAS COP on Ning with them and we agreed on the interface of Ning. We decided to keep the interface simple, clear and concise and we removed some features like video and music player as Ning only has a 10 Gb storage capacity. We have to pay for any extra space needed. We can always link these files (video & audio) if needed from HIVE once the linkage between Hive and Ning is up and running,
Chris G thought that Gadget feature can be removed as well because the 59 built-in Ning gadgets are not relevant to our community. These gadgets vary between games, igoogle gadgets, small flash programs, etc….
We decided on the date of launching our COP which will be 15th Sep and we will be asking award leaders to input their comments and views under New user & Expert User forums.
Expert Users:
* What advice/tips you would like to tell the new users of validation process?
* What pitfalls to avoid?
New Users:
* What matters concern you about the validation process?
* What information you would like to know?
This will be followed by an online event on Thursday 25th Sep for 2 hours in the afternoon “Ask the Experts: Validation Process” and supervised by 3 of us.
We agreed to have another face-to-face event “Introduction to Divas” in mid October in Stoke Campus to introduce the project to the stakeholders; this will be presented by Sue L, Chris Gray and myself.
