HelpMatch: Collaboration Tools Selection Subcommittee
If you didn’t read the March 1 HelpMatch Call to Action post, you might like to read that before this post. We urgently need to move on getting HelpMatch.net set up with a wiki and blog.This is the foundation for the HelpMatch technical network that will get HelpMatch designed and built. HelpMatch.net will become a great big world-community action center, and the choices here matter! We need (at least) a small team to work on a recommendation for:
i. collaboration tools: wiki and blog; other? ii. hosting service that works with your blog and wiki platform choices
If your ideal solution costs a lot, what do we put in place in the interim, while we get the organization side set up to take donations?
If no-one signs up to move this forward by Friday March 9th, I’m going to make unilateral choices! That, my friends, is a threat! “All the important mistakes are made on the first day” (Rechtin, 1991) and I’m happy to make most of them! But, you’ll have to live with the consequences, so in the style of the best architects reacting to this challenge–which I have stolen from one of the best technical managers I ever worked with (Anthony Dicolen)–I am sure you will rise to the occasion and save the community from me setting up a legacy you have to suffer with!
If you know someone who should be involved (like, say, they could donate the hosting service without dictating how the community-at-large needs to move forward; for example, hands-off on dictating technology choices without building community buy-in) do motivate them to pitch in here! Do whatever it takes–buy this person lunch, harangue them mercilessly, etc. This whole entire HelpMatch initiative is going to give you plenty of opportunity to practice your architecting skills. Let’s start here–persuade and influence!!!
Go to it:
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Volunteer for this “sub-committee” (you’ll pick a leader from among yourselves; if you can’t, I’ll pick; chuckle, I love this! Anthony, thank you!!!)
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You can volunteer in the comments, and/or send me an email. I’ll put you in contact with one another.
Craig Cody said,
March 16, 2007 @ 7:46 am
I would like to volunteer for this committee. I interested in collaboration tools and their application both in and out of the work place. I’ve looked at a few, but there are still so many out there that I haven’t gotten to yet. I would love to hear what has worked for others and what hasn’t. I hope to learn from the experience of others while at the same time perhaps contributing my own.
Interesting conundrum: collaborating on collaboration tools.
Ruth said,
March 16, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
Wahoo! Jarvis Ka is working on this too. I’ll connect you, and others as they step up to this challenge. I agree, it’s a really interesting and broadly relevant area, and central to getting our HelpMatch architecture team geared up fully.