Thread Subject: Re: A few odds and ends

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From: Bailey Bruce
Date: Sat, Oct 14 2006 4:10 AM

> Just a few things I did today - because what else is there to
> do on a Friday night when you're ill? :-(

These are all awesome! I feel bad for wondering if you catch colds
frequently!

> I think the most outstanding item was regarding the two-day
> notice for consensus items and determining cochairs.

Agreed. A reminder for the subcommittees to determine and post their
methods of work is also important.

> At a minimum, conveners should be apprised of this.

Since the conveners are committee members, this has happened.

> Some would get the same message 8 times!

Understood, we need to avoid that, and nothing we have come up with so
far warrants that much redundancy!

> But how much information will there be that should be pushed
> to both committee members AND the public? Not much, I would
> guess.

I agree that people interested in the meat space meeting will be
watching the Access Board page and the Federal Register. But details
like our guidance that captioning be proactively arranged is an
important message to all the subcommittee members, and for encouraging
wider participation.

> I think posting it prevalently on the sites (like I
> have done with Tim's message on the wiki) is probably
> sufficient.

This step is important, and we will have plenty of traffic to the site
that doesn't come from the subcommittee members, but my concern is for
non-committee people who are active on the lists but not yet convinced
of the utility of the wiki.

> 3. I could (I think) aggregate all of the addresses from all
> of the lists and use that to send *occasional* blast messages
> to everyone that is on at least one list.

Of the three suggested approaches, I like this one the most, assuming it
turns out not to be too much work.

My feeling is that if Tim is posting to the committee members, that is
an appropriate occasion for a follow-up message from someone on the
Communication Task Force. The message to the committee members would be
referenced, not repeated. That citation could be followed up with other
links to new but polished wiki articles.

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