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Considerations, questions, notes

Overall

  • IDI as, essentially, a directory service?
  • Contacts, equipment/facilities/spaces, mailing lists, projects, tools, calendars, etc.; easy to find directory of all these assets?
  • Ability to find items, add items, manage directory?
  • More project-centric, instead of IDI-centric? Who'd be using infrastructure services (e.g., mailing lists, repositories, etc.)?
  • One-click installs, like an ISP

Booking (high priority)

  • Need more clarity on bookable equipment, spaces, facilities--what's bookable, what's not? Not every line item on the budget is bookable
  • Need to categorize bookable items
  • How does the user book something? (mobile item, big item, physical space, software, etc.)
  • How much transparency? Will we show who's booking items? Or will we have Craigslist-like obfuscation? Maybe we can provide privacy options (e.g., public by default, but option to keep booking information private)
  • How do we enforce/encourage timely returns?
  • How are the bookings bound to a person--via their IDI account, email, etc.
  • How are the items delivered or picked up? Are all items stored at the same place? What happens when items are across sites?
  • What if an item is booked at one site, but is needed immediately at the next? Does it go through the "central" facility first?
  • How are items returned? Who/how is it checked back into the system?
  • Need clarity on booking process
  • What do we do when an item is overdue?
  • Or lost, misplaced?
  • Are there legal issues with items crossing over borders? (e.g., a partner in the US wants to borrow something; or, one of the Ontario researchers wants to bring it to Egypt on a business trip)
  • Software licenses--can we loan these out?

Member directory (medium priority)

  • Can we also provide online communication?
  • E.g., webchat--communicate with a live person
  • E.g., IDRC chat server, or web-based IRC channel
  • Voice chat server?

Member accounts

  • Do we allow anyone to register?
  • How do we validate users (i.e. users who are from member organizations / partners) vs. users from the broader community?

Mailing lists (medium priority)

  • Maybe a single interface for the user for managing all his/her multiple subscriptions (e.g., everyone@idrc, fluid-work, fluid-talk, design-commits, etc.)
  • Ways to create your own mailing list on the fly
  • Who is using these mailing lists? And for what?
  • Advantage/disadvantage vs. forums?
  • Is using a user-driven content site design, then it may be possible to not have to use mailing lists at all. Similar to user groups on social sites - that is where collaboration and sharing occurs, not necessarily on a list.

Knowledge management (medium-light priority)

  • Document sharing, via wiki, via other knowledge management systems?
  • What (content and format of) documents will be shared, between whom, and for what purpose?

Tools, training (medium priority)

  • General resources for both IDI members and the public
  • Training: Design handbook, OSDPL, ILH, Greg's accessibility course, etc.
  • Tools: AChecker, Infusion, etc.

Calendar (medium priority)

  • ... of events of interest
  • Google calendar of events and holidays
  • And bookings (equipment, spaces)
  • What about project roadmaps, or project calendars?
  • Directory of IDI project calendars?
  • Directory of individual schedules? (self-published)
  • What do we do if projects use different calendar platforms?

Real-time conferencing (low priority)

  • Video conferencing
  • IRC
  • Virtual meeting rooms, white boards, collaboration spaces
  • Small vs. big: person-to-person (WebEx, Breeze, Skype, IRC, iChat, BigBlueButton) vs. spaces-to-spaces (e.g., Cisco telepresence)
  • Archiving, history, logs

Development infrastructure (low priority)

  • One-click installs?

Who is the Audience?

  • IDRC
    • how will the idrc use it?
    • what will make it useful?
    • not all work?
    • link to other web presences.
    • What is it that the idrc wants to communicate through the site?
      • what is the meaningful content and how deep
  • Members of participating
    • are they using the site the same way as the IDRC?
    • (What does the grant say? What are their needs?)
    • What kind of work are they doing in the grant?
    • Is it similar to the project based work of the IDRC? Yes / no.
    • Decision tree, or try something different if it fails.
  • no institutional affiliation
    • designers, and developers
    • is there a difference in the interactions if you were a designer vs. a developer?
    • what information is needed to get plugged in.
    • what is the idi, who is involved - organizations, community leaders and academics
    • what is the idi doing? Topics.
    • where do they go if their question isn't answered?
    • business: what resources does the IDI provide to help make their business practices and presence more inclusive?
  • end user: what does the end user get from the IDI?
    • are services being offered?
    • what kind of research is being offered of interest?
  • General questions
    • did we get everyone? Can you think of a scenario?
    • what does the grant say

What is the IDI?

  • How did this institution was formed (story)? why is it important?
  • What is the need?
  • Where is the IDI? Does geographic location matter?
    • How do we communicate the fact that the IDI is a physical location and a international / virtual center?
  • How do we demonstrate that this is a center of expertise?
    • history, success
    • confidence in the center
      • credentials, examples
    • comprehensiveness: breadth and depth (go back to grant and find out the breadth and depth of the IDI).
    • try it yourself / demo: physical, virtual, book it?
  • people: collaborations, partnerships
  • topics
  • define inclusive design, examples (who does it?)
  • free and open research
  • who are the end users?
    • What does the end user get from the IDI (scope)? (i.e. Is the IDI about making ATs better?)
    • Is the IDI interested in a single demographic?
  • What is the infrastructure provided?
    • is this freely available to anyone? They need to be in touch / legitimacy in order to get access.
  • community engagement: which communities?
  • Training
    • for HQP.

Goal: “how do we design and develop our information and communication technology systems such that they are inclusive of people with varying abilities, languages and cultural preferences.”

  • What does it mean by "people with varying abilities"?
  • How is language and culture accommodated in research and in practice?

General questions?

  • what does the grant say? does it match, did we miss anyone?

What do we want to communicate to each user?

  • non-institutional member
    • inform about IDI, inclusive design
    • deliver content: policy and pedigogy.
    • understanding of the projects so they can decide on how to participate.
  • IDI member
    • how to use the IDI infrastructure

Questions:

  • does the grant say anything about what the site says?
  • are we missing anything?
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