Idea_Bucket

=**Idea Bucket Page**=

Introduction
This page is a catch-all for temporary storage of ideas until we figure out where they belong on the wiki. When you post an idea start with your name, the date and time. Then type the idea or question. Anyone is welcome to respond to an idea. Be sure to put your name and date-time stamp on your response as well. The threads may be easier to read if you use a different color for your text.

Liza's Ideas and Miscellaneous Task List
LL 20150910: Review proposals on Google Drive and copy an useful text to funding page on wiki.

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Sharada's Ideas
Idea 1: Sharada: Do we have an Idea Bucket? .........Creating an idea bucket. Status: Done Comments: LL 20150908 12:34: Please make an Idea Buck page for everyone to use and link all your ideas back here.

Idea 2: Brentwood Elementary / Suppes Research Sharada: Is it possible to track the participants of Brentwood Elementary School's CAI Project of 60's?


 * LL 20150908 12:34: Yes, it's possible. This would make an excellent Master's Thesis or PhD Dissertation in History, Anthropology, Urban Studies, Black Studies, or Technology and Culture. It shouldn't be undertaken causally because it will be an enormous amount of work. We should have a Section on the Wiki, under Research, that lists the topics we would like someone to study.
 * In that case can we still aim for gathering some stories now?(September 2015)
 * LL 20150916: These messages persist through time. Please use dates and times, not reference words such as "now". Sharad: Agreed.
 * LL 20150909 22:34: Let's hold off on stories for a week or two. You may find someone who wants to do this in the history class at UNVR. We wouldn't want to steal their thunder (US expression for "take away the exciting part of their work") We're still organizing your work.>> >>> LL 20150908 12:34: Yes, it will work to start as an exhibit concept. Material on Suppes, Atkinson and Josten should be collected at individual catalog and repository items. You can arrange the items and draft narrative that ties them together on an exhibit_working page. When that page has been elaborated and edited to (at the moment) my satisfaction it can become a published exhibit. We might decide to arrange the material differently, perhaps as a series of Pioneer Profiles and a Retrospective on Jostens. We could then tie these together as a "guided tour".
 * 1) Just thinking out loud. Will 'CAI to ILS ' as an part of any exhibit work? OR dr. Suppes and Dr. Atkinson to Josten? Learnings of ILS.

Idea 3: **Digital preservation of Artifacts:**
 * What technology are we using to gather 3D information for some of the artifacts? For example First Apple or IBM1500 etc, would be extremely appealing if we can present in 3D format. I am assuming,there might be more and more interest or need for 3D exhibits, especially if we were to reach out to my kids age or their next generation population.
 * Or can be useful if we ever can gather enough financial support to come up with virtual theme park.
 * LL 20150909 23:14 I like the idea but I don't have the expertise to implement it or the money to hire someone. Let's keep the idea on hold while we look for someone to do it. I did start working on it in Second Life a few years ago.

Idea 4: 6. How about high lighting the topics in the communications sections. As soon as one gets the response then they can remove the high lighting. Keeps tracking easy.
 * LL 20150909 23:14 I don't understand this suggestion. Please elaborate. If you mean putting highlights on your volunteer page, sure, do it however you like.

Idea 7: 20150910 13:40 Will have to figure out a way to store the contact information without compromising the privacy of the collaborator/ potential helpers/ volunteers. > CiviCRM is our storage for all participants in HCLE including interviewees. It is not public so we can safely enter private information in it.
 * LL 201509016 10:14 This page is for all staff to use. Please use initials, date and time to start each post so readers can tell who posted and when.
 * LL 201509016 10:14

8. Can we seek the stories from some potential pioneers as a first step and then make a decision about indicting them into pioneer exhibit? This might help make the project efficient timewise as well as make each contact/communication meaningful for both parties involved. 9.
 * LL 201509016 10:41 Yes, this is the appropriate way to go about it. Anyone can have a wiki page. The page can be public or private. A public page should not have private information on it but can be referenced from the individual's private CiviCRM record. (First step after identifying a person of interest is to enter his/her contact info into CiviCRM). Invite the story tellers to add to the working pages which you set up for them. Collect any and all information they wish to share with us. That's why we call the wiki "the loading dock". Edited stories, pioneer profiles and exhibits will be compiled later from material collected on the individual's page. These working pages should have both new material written specifically for HCLE, links to any related material already available on the web (the story-tellers web pages, blogs, organizations they worked for or with, books or papers, etc.). If the story-teller has written material or images that have not yet been scanned s/he can either scan it h'self and upload it to the wiki or snail mail it to you and you can scan it. Soon we should have an "acquisitions team" (what's Liza at the moment) who will review newly uploaded materials and decide whether they have historical value and should, therefore, be cataloged and, for those materials for which we have digital surrogates (copies), added to the repository. Similarly, items that are already archived on a stable web site can be cataloged with their "foreign" URL.