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Interested in helping to develop a camp for VIVO newcomers? Please contact any of the task force members. |
Context
Provide a brief description of why the Task Force is being proposed. Include sufficient background information to allow the reader to understand how the work fits into the current context of the current activities of the VIVO project. Only 2-3 bullet points or sentences are necessaryVIVO is constantly being evaluated by sites around the world. Some of these sites choose to move forward with implementation, and some of these sites become production VIVO sites. In the past, VIVO has had an "Implementation Fest" to provide newcomers with an opportunity to learn more about the VIVO community, its software, and its ontologies. The Fest was fun, but was unstructured, without a curriculum, and without any formal instruction. With the maturing of the VIVO community, and the software, a new approach is needed to provide an organized, fun, engaging, informative, and productive experience focused entirely on those new to VIVO.
Objectives
Develop a VIVO Camp that can be held as needed. The camp engages newcomers to the VIVO community, providing an introduction to VIVO for planning, evaluation, and implementation purposes. The camp is not a developers camp, nor a hackathon. It is intended for those new to VIVO, to provide them with an introduction to research networking systems, the VIVO community, software, and data models. The camp must be sustainable – revenue from the camp must be sufficient to offset the expenses of holding a camp.
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Form taskforce, recruit members, develop charter. Identify date and time for first camp | Oct |
Develop business plan. Outline curriculum. Identify existing materials | Nov |
Refine curriculum. Collect and refine existing materials. Begin new materials | Dec |
Open registration. Continue to refine materials | Jan |
Confirm registrants. Go/no-go for first camp | Feb |
If camp is a go, hold first camp | Mar |
Post camp activities – thank yous, revising, archiving | Apr |
Members
Mike Conlon – task force chair
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