Phone call details

or what i remember from it - hopefully marybeth will add her notes too

LockerTalker -
- dean lynch remembers seeing another site that used the locker metaphor - we need to look around to see if we can find it and make sure it's not like ours
- people wondered if kids will be interested if it's not a social netwrok (which isn't to say you have to make it such a network but you need to do a little more reading/research
- is it doable - gonna need a database which means backup and maintenance - the way you have it now with accounts there's no way around the database idea - eventually you'll need to figure out what data you're going to keep (the programmer will need that info too)


Debate This
- folks thought it sounded a lot like slashdot - you can rate articles but you can also rate comments kind of like your system, the community polices the topics - this could be a show stopper - you need to look closely at slashdot and be able to say how you guys are different (or change the idea a bit so it is different) - just being on a news site isn't enough difference
- same question as with the locker guys - is it doable in terms of the programming - what info will ya need to keep? where are video and audio files going to be stored...
- related to doable - who's going to police the debates at the beginning - i know eventually the community is supposed to take on some of that role, but who will do it at first - what is going to be involved? this could be a biggie


We have to get it down to 3 ideas - it could be our 2 and one other or one from each group - for a couple of reasons - we only have 1.5 hours to present the ideas, there's only a little bit of money from dean lynch to implement the ideas with the news organization. We're going to present the ideas again next week to the dean's and we'll have to get it down to 3.

That means in the next week - before our group phone call on Sunday - you need to finish fleshing out the ideas, think about what the news organization gets out of the idea, how much work they'll have to do. We want to see ideas and work from everyone - you all grabbed pieces - you should be posting about them. And stuff has to be up on the blog by 5pm on saturday so we can all read and comment - and you guys have to comment - not whoo hoo or sounds good - but be critical - the other guys will - they want their idea to go to toronto and be developed, right? better to get answers to the questions now before the group presentation. I hate to be harsh - but if details aren't there we'll have to drop the idea. we're coming down to the time wire.

Kim