Next Call:
- Tuesday 29/05/2007 between 15:00 and 16:00 UK time. Note the UK is currently [one hour ahead] of UTC/GMT - it being summer time an' all. See below the double horizontal line for the next call's agenda and also the minutes to previous calls.
To Attend:
- For the Skypecast on Tuesday May 29 follow [this link]. It's available from 13:00 for testing.
- Or if you get problems then copy [copy this in on the day] into your Skype application and click on it.
- The Skypecast service is in beta so if it fails to work look for [Skype] user 'dahacouk' or 'socialtechnology' and we'll do a good old fashioned Skype conference call.
Requirements to Talk
- If you want to talk on the call then use a headset or headphones (not speakers) otherwise mad swirling echoes can build up destroying vast trains of thought and you run the risk of being put on "listen only" mode.
- Use a mic that is close to your mouth otherwise we may get too much background noise.
- Join the call from a quiet place.
- It's also preferable to be connected to the Net via wire if possible - wireless can be a bit jumpy sometimes.
- If you just want to be in "listen only" mode then speakers are fine.
Weekly Heartbeat Conference Call Purpose:
- Review recent amendments to the KendraWiki. All discussions should be about KendraWiki documents to drive clarity and structure in these calls.
- Action work items that will lead to Wiki contributions.
- Decide matters of logistics that benefit from discussion.
Blank Agenda Template:
- Proposal:
- Rational:
- Action:
- Status:
Explanatory Notes For The Agenda Template:
- Proposal: What is the need, requirement or desire? This could be a question or a statement. And what are proposed solutions. And also refer to the wiki page that we'll discuss. -- WikiName.
- Rational: Supporting explanation for the Context and Proposal.
- Action: What will be done, by whom and by when.
- Status: This should be kept updated by the people named in Action.
- Status: Not yet started / In progress / Complete.
Agenda for 20070529 1500 UK:
- Proposal: Use [Edit Technologies] to tag the video after KendraSummit20070627 and make it available as a download from an ftp site. -- BrendonKenny
- Rational: This will enable us to view any point within the video and navigate easily between speakers.
- Action:
- Status:
- Proposal:
- Rational:
- Action:
- Status:
Minutes for 20070522 1500 UK:
- Proposal: We still don't have a venue confirmed for June. -- DanielHarris
- Rational:
- Action: Will everyone who knows a potential please contact the owner.
- Status: Urgent! By end of this week
- Proposal: Maybe we should have more breaks and variety in the KendraSummit20070627 Agenda. -- GordonRae
- Rational:
- Action: We should have debates in the afternoon and presentations in the morning. Agreed nine sessions may be too long.
- Status: Urgent! By end of this week
- Proposal: Maybe we should have presentations on the KendraMoU and KendraStructure in the KendraSummit20070627 Agenda. -- GordonRae
- Rational:
- Action: We should only present things when they are good enough. Both these items require further work.
- Action: GordonRae will encourage participants to make progress on the IPR bits.
- Status:
- Proposal: A KendraWorldTour is being planned for the Autumn. -- FarooqHussain
- Rational:
- Action: Consider dates and venues. New York and Los Angeles would be good choices.
- Status: In progress
Minutes for 20070508 1500 UK:
- Context: Getting funding for BroadbandWorldForum in China.
- Proposal: Our UKTI contacts say they will fund exhibits (but ours is already funded, alas!) .British KendraMembers can apply to UKTI - their priority is companies exporting to China. Re-use signage from IPTVWorldForum. -- GordonRae and DanielHarris
- Question: We have 5 free passes for this event worth several thousand USD each. Can we attempt to exchange these for sponsorship? -- DanielHarris
- Action: KendraMembers have already been emailed, encouraging them to sponsor DanielHarris and/or attend.
- Action: Printed materials are urgently required.
- '''Action: BrendonKenny to contact members of Liverpool Digital to encourage them to join KendraInitiative; they may have access to Objective One money.
- Action: DanielHarris to contact UKTI South West as Daha, a member of KendraInitiative.
- Action: Everybody encouraged to check future events regularly.
- Status: Urgent
- Context: Developing KendraUseCases for the KendraSummit20070627
- Proposal: GordonRae has developed a new version of the template and some examples of attractive use cases that could be talked about by speakers. Please may we review this, improve it and commit to using it. Please me we have suggestions for speakers who will be "Use Case Advocates". -- GordonRae
- Proposal: What are we going to do, how and when will we do it, and how will we know when we've done it? -- AllenMorningtonWest
- Action: EdBates has added some use cases to his profile page / GordonRae and others will review these.
- Action: Relate some of GordonRae's use cases to actual stakeholders in different sectors.
- Action: Develop our ideas about speakers on the KendraSummit20070627Ideas page.
- Status: Ongoing
- Context: Developing the legal incorporation of Kendra
- Context: Developing a KendraMoU which is well understood and likely to be acceptable to corporate lawyers, and mitigates the risk of 'submarine patenting' which has caused problems in the MPEG? and TV-Anytime standards initiatives.
- Proposal: KendraInitiative should consider adopting the W3C? Patent Policy.
- Proposal: Volunteers please, to contribute to the debate and work through the issues raised at KendraPatentPolicy. -- GordonRae
- Action: Everybody please read this page, criticise, and improve it.
- Status: Hardly Started
- Context: PICNIC have asked KendraInitiative to hold a Cross Media Summit within their event. This will be our next Summit after KendraSummit20070627.
- Proposal: Can we rally European KendraMembers to support this and attend? -- DanielHarris
- Rational: Free and open business social networking in Europe!
- Action: Rent a house in Amsterdam.
- Action: Answer the above question in the next five weeks. Make it item 1 on each week's agenda.
- Status: Ongoing
- Proposal:
- Rational:
- Action:
- Status:
Minutes 20070501 1500 UK:
- Context: Kendra Participants benefit from knowing more about one another.
- Proposal: Fill out your WikiName URL.
- Proposal: Fill out role (current and future).
- Proposal: Fill out your role for the forthcoming KendraSummit20070627.
- Proposer: DanielHarris
- Date: 20070430
- Rational:
- Action: agreed - let's all have profiles, please.
- Action: GordonRae agrees to take the lead on the Use Case part of KendraSummit20070627.
- Action: GordonRae agrees to meet with AndreasSallam? later this week.
- Status:
- Context: Use Cases are essential moving Kendra forward.
- Context: Kendra to contribute to P2P-Next
- Proposal: MarkStuart? is currently drafting a proposal to present to the Europan 6th Framework Programme. Would Kendra memebers please get involved.
- Proposer: MarkStuart?
- Action: BrendonKenny to contribute.
- Action: DanielHarris to contribute.
- Action: GordonRae to encourage Deborahsass to contribute.
- Date: 20070501
- Rational:
- Status:
- Context: Asking UKTI to assist re China
- Proposal: Form a relationship with UKTI to help get government funding for Kendra.
- Proposer: DanielHarris and GordonRae
- Action: DanielHarris has spoken to in UKTI Software division. GordonRae has met with PhilPatterson? in Music Exports
- Action: Follow up with contacts, keep it warm!
- Date: 20070501
- Rational:
- Status:
- Context: Building relationships with AIM? and IFPI?
- Proposal: Kendra will benefit from better relationships with AIM? and IFPI?
- Proposer: AndreasSallam?, GordonRae, DanielHarris
- Action: Build a relationship with AIM? in preparation for LondonCalling and KendraSummit20070627. AlisonWenham? and PhilPatterson? are relevant names.
- Action: Build a relationship with IFPI?. PaulJessop and RichardGooch? are relevant names.
- Date: 20070501
- Rational:
- Status:
Minutes 20070424 1500 UK:
- Topics for discussion in next conference call (please adhere to the template format):
- Context: The KendraSummit20070627 clashes with LondonCalling, a major UK music event.
- Context: Need to get minutes on the website immediately after the conference call.
- Proposal: Suggest we update the wiki in realtime as we are in the conference call. And then do a quick tidy up immediately afterwards. And then have them posted out to email list(s).
- Proposer: DanielHarris
- Date: 20070420
- Rational: We'll be able to get more done and more people involved if we minute in realtime.
- Action:
- Status: Doing from now on
- Context: Who exactly are the team organising KendraSummit20070627? What are their roles? What tasks are they completing? What are the target dates for task completion?
- Proposal: Please read and fill out your role in KendraSummit20070627Ideas. Also, suggest roles that need to be filled even if you are not volunteering for them
- Proposer:
- Date:
- Rational:
- Action:
- Status:
- Context: KendraUseCases
- Proposal: GordonRae to be lead on populating KendraUseCases
- Proposal: GordonRae, ColinMoorcraft? and DanielHarris and to identify stakeholders and go through KendraMembers and identify who is what.
- Proposal: DeborahSass is working on the use case section of the agenda.
- Proposal: People should track KendraNewsLetters page regularly and suggest and comment on items.
- Proposal: GordonRae to approach contact in UKTISW re China...
- Proposal: Draft KendraMoU at KendraSummit20070627 presented to membership for formal review and we suggest 90 days for RFC thereafter. In the meantime the process will be publicised on kFW and kNews.
Minutes 20070417 1500 UK:
- Should the June Summit be Webcast?
- This should only be done if Web casting fits with an agreed public relations strategy.
- So far, we do not an agreed public relations strategy.
- There is also an open issue, whether the Web casters available to the general public (eg put it on you tube), or only to members.
- We also have to persuade a member to bear the cost of production.
- Action: DeborahSass to write a short suggestion for the next heartbeat conference call.
- KendraInitiative Structure
- Use Cases
- MarkStuart? has been very busy, but intends to put up a use case Template based on a work that he and AllenMorningtonWest did two years ago, with some alterations and improvements.
- Action: MarkStuart? to load the template with a guidance paper on the KendraUseCases page.
- Peer-To-Peer
- MarkStuart? would like to get KendraInitiative or involved in the peer-to-peer project as a participant. The deadline for this is 8th May.
- Next action: MarkStuart? will prepare a wiki page on the subject this week.
- Operating Structure
- AndreasSallam? suggested the KendraInitiative should raise money to pay some body to do this work. AllenMorningtonWest pointed out that this is one of many ways to ensure continuity and progress. The way we adopt needs to fit into the governance platform.
- Action: Decision deferred, pending further work in other areas.
- Networking And Outreach
Agenda 20070417 1500 UK:
- Context: Need to add all ideas to KendraSummit20070627Ideas.
- Proposal: Webcast KendraSummit20070627 to public.
- Proposer: AndreasSallam?
- Date: 20070414
- Rational: Mostly for PR.
- Action:
- Status:
- Context: Moving forward...
- Proposal: Review KendraStructure and documents that are cited within it.
- Proposer: DanielHarris
- Date: 20070417
- Rational:
- Action:
- Status:
- Context: Discussing association-structure; proposed on 20070410
- Proposal: Who does what, who is responsible for which task, who can invest how much time in the specified tasks?
- Proposer: AndreasSallam?
- Date: 20070417
- Rational:
- Action:
- Status:
- Context: Action to produce use cases agreed on 20070410
- Proposal: Production of a Use Case Template
- Proposer: MarkStuart?
- Date: 20070417
- Rational:
- Action:
- Status:
- Proposal: Move Weekly Heartbeat Conference Call to Tuesdays instead of Mondays.
- Date and Proposer: 20070407 DanielHarris
- Rational: It'll avoid us having to reschedule the calls when there is a bank holiday Monday - there are 3 more this year.
- Rational: Being the summer season DanielHarris is mindful of the fact that Mondays will often find him returning home after weekend of festival work - and he may just not make it in time!
- Rational: It'll give people time to clear their decks on Monday and take a look at topics for discussion and make advanced comments - on this page. (DanielHarris - this has been overwritten, can it be recovered? GordonRae)
- Action: We'll having the call on Tuesdays from now on.
- Status: Complete
- Question: Is the [pledge] system worth keeping or does it confuse?
- Date and Proposer: 20070408 DanielHarris
- Proposal: Hide it away for the moment.
- Action: We'll keep the pledge system for the moment - until we're a bit clearer on the way things are going forward.
- Status: Complete
- Proposal: We need clarity on the agenda, audience and venue for the June Summit - how many people we invite relates to the size of the venue and the agenda. Or the venue and agenda relate to how many people register for the June Summit. We had 40 people attend the March Summit with one month's notice. How many people could we get to the June Summit with 3 month's notice?
- Date and Proposer: 20070408 DanielHarris
- Proposal: Let's continue to discuss this on kEv (k-events) and on the wiki at KendraSummit20070627Ideas.
- Question: Is bigger better? Do we go for as many people as possible?
- Proposal: Yes! We want buy in to the Universal Catalogue. We want a broad range of use cases and business models.
- Proposal: Discussing association-structure
- Who does what, who is responsible for which task, who can invest how much time in the specified tasks? -- AndreasSallam?
Minutes 20070410 1500 UK:
- Timing:
- the weekly heartbeat conference call will be on Tuesday every week.
- Pledges:
- the section on the site can stay for the time being. It is noted that in the future, we need to talk about finance and commercial arrangements.
- June Summit (Venue):
- DeborahSass offered to take on the responsibility of finding an venue to host the June summit. DeborahSass already knows of a venue which could host 40 to 50 people. There was some discussion whether 50 was a big enough number. Also, who should we be prioritising - people with money? people with influence? people with time and energy to commit. FarooqHussain pointed out that June is already a very short notice date for getting people with financial power and influence in the US to agree to come over to London.
- June Summit (Format):
- it was agreed that we should progress the agenda which came out of the April summit and present it to a wider audience, to demonstrate the tangible benefits of KendraInitiative and get their buy-in. The meeting decided that the best effective use of the June summit would be to create a buzz in which we publicise what we have agreed, progress we have made, and actively seeking more participants to join in.
- There was some discussion as to the relevant relative importance of people who are high profile in the industry, have money, have talents or have time to contribute but we did not come to a definitive conclusion as to which people we should be targeting at this stage.
- June Summit (Use Cases):
- it was agreed that use cases are a priority for both defining the work of KendraInitiative and communicating it to get buy-in. MarkStuart? agreed to produce a draft template of a use case and GordonRae agreed to enhance it and develop it into something that could be adopted by Kendra.
- We need to prepare use cases for all stakeholders: creators, intermediaries, and domestic and business consumers. We should focus our efforts on the use cases which are not trivial and have not been addressed by other industry initiatives.
- We propose to develop an number of exemplary use cases to be presented at the June summit. Our aim after the June summit onwards is to focus the minds of the membership by writing, discussing and prioritising use cases. Once we have a standard and some good examples, this will be done on the Wiki.
- It was suggested that invite presentations, 5-10 minutes long, in which a member of KendraInitiative describes a use case that directly impacts their organisation. and from which their organisation could derive strategic benefit, if a standards based solution to that problem could be found.
- Wiki Training:
- DanielHarris is offering to do 1 to 1 Wiki training sessions to get more people using the Wiki.
- Association Structure:
- this is an open question. Please will everybody think about this topic and bring ideas to the next conference call on Tuesday 17th.
- Skype:
- next week we will try and use a Skype conference. DanielHarris and FarooqHussain will do tests on Thursday or Friday. Will everybody please get headsets, as very unpleasant feedback occurs when people attempt to join Skype without a headset.
- Minutes:
- a space will be created on the wiki for the minutes to be posted, and for people to append their comments.
- For the Skypecast on Tuesday May 29 follow [this link]. It's available from 13:00 for testing.
- For the Skypecast on Tuesday June 5 follow [this link]. It's available from 13:00 for testing.
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- For the Skypecast on Tuesday June 19 follow [this link]. It's available from 13:00 for testing.
- For the Skypecast on Tuesday June 26 follow [this link]. It's available from 13:00 for testing.
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