ORG Volunteer Meeting Wednesday 4 April 07

Pls indicate below if you intend to join us

• Michael Holloway
• Becky Hogge
• Adam McGreggor
• Chris Adams
• Jason Kitcat
• Felix Cohen (provisionally)
• Sheila Thomson
• Alistair Alexander

Minutes

Support ORG Party

• Door / raffle / T-Shirt / party-bag assistance: Glyn, Sheila and Chris
  • Michael will email today with instructions as to protocol for taking new membership details, taking money for the raffle, handing out party bags and ordering T-Shirts. Pls review and suggest improvements.

Gowers Commenting system + recommendation tracker

• Both Adam and Sheila have made efforts, but lack of documentation make this a very hard task.
• New approach: can we use the JotSpot tool (that Lessig used for Code v2)?
  • Who is actioning this? Adam, Sheila? (Let's push to get something up this month, as Patent Office consultation is approaching)

Delicious links on ORG blog

• Agreement that Delicious links to do not enhance the blog so will be scrapped in future
• Deferred decision as to where else we can showcase links, and also tighter control of
• Different views as to optimal posting frequency, although consensus that we need to run a tighter ship

May 3rd ('D-Day')

• Felix and Chris volunteer for Stratford (nb. Felix yet to confirm pledgebank signup)
• Alistair signs up for Denham (AKA South Bucks) (nb. Alistair yet to confirm pledgebank signup)

Consultations

Glyn and Michael to update wiki and encourage contributions to the following consultations:

• Tom Steinberg's Cabinet Office-sponsored 'Public Information Review'
• Home Office consultation on implementation of EC Data retention Directive
  • Owen was planning on doing some work on this
• Extension of DCA's Freedom Of Information Act consultation