WP 1: Durable community building

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WP 1 Durable community building

• Päivi Majaranta
• http//www.cs.uta.fi/hci/

COGAIN Kick-Off 5.-6.9.2004 Tampere, Finland
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Objectives

• Disseminate information of the objectives and
  achievements of COGAIN
• Create and maintain the COGAIN web portal that
  will
• Serve as a communication tool between the
  network partners and the end users
• Share up-to-date versions of working documents
  and software versions
• Gather and maintain user profile information

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Tasks 1/2

• T1.1 Creating a web page for information
  distribution
• Distributing information for researchers, general
  public, and end users
• Sharing up-to-date (working) documents and
  software versions
• T1.2 Creating a web-based discussion forum for
  users, user communities, and developers
• Daily communication between researchers,
  developers, and users
• Feedback from the users to the developers

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Tasks 2/2

• T1.3 Maintaining a user profile database
• Gathering user performance data automatically
• Preserving the users personal set-up and profile
• Privacy issues will be considered carefully
• T1.4 Starting preparations for making COGAIN a
  durable activity
• Legal issues for establishing a COGAIN Foundation
  will be clarified
• Establishing and managing a research project
  portfolio to support joint project applications
• Supporting and fostering the raising of research
  funds

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Deliverables

• D1.1 The COGAIN web portal with discussion forums
  (Month 3)
• D1.2 Specifications of the formats used in the
  user profile database (Month 12 August 2005)

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Milestones

• M1.1 Fully functional web portal and discussion
  forum for users, developers and researchers
  (Month 6 February 2005)

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Measurable Indicators
Indicator Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year
5 Percentage of COGAIN 30 70 80 85 90related
email messages sent using cogain.org
addresses Number of program 2 5 8 15 20librarie
s, software modulesand applicationsavailable
through the portal Number of reports and
10 20 35 50 80publications availablethrough
the portal Number of discussion board messages
40 80 100 100 100
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Current Status

• www.cogain.org domain running
• The host machine located in ITU premises,
  remotely maintained by UTA
• Preliminary web pages created
• Current pages temporary and for information
  purposes only
• Fully functional portal with discussion forums
  will be launched on 1st December 2004
• Email aliases created for contact persons
• Email aliases for all COGAIN participants created
  soon after the kick-off
• forename.middlename.surname_at_cogain.org

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www.cogain.org
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Estimated Involvement (first 18 months)

• Partner Months
• UTA 14
• ITU 1,5
• BH 0,5
• DC 0,5
• RISOE 1,5
• DTU 2
• TU DRESDEN 1
• UNI KO-LD 2
• UzL 2
• HP 0,5

Partner Months POLITO 1 SU 3 PAB 0,5 Tobii 1 AC
E 2,2 UCAM 0,5 UOD 2 DMU 0,3 TIT UNIZH 1
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To Do

• Email information to be put on web to
  webmaster_at_cogain.org
• News
• Events, including forthcoming conferences
• Publications
• Interesting links and material
• Forthcoming deadlines for research project
  proposals
• Media appearances
• Send contact information of all COGAIN related
  people to webmaster_at_cogain.org.
• cogain-partners_at_cs.uta.fi ? partners_at_cogain.org
  ( cogain-partners_at_cogain.org)
• Contact persons for organisations and WPs

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Discussion

• Comments, ideas?
• What kind of email aliases and lists are needed?
• uta_at_cogain.org, itu_at_cogain.org, ?
• wp1_at_cogain.org vs. wp1-info_at_cogain.org
• Should we try to prevent the spam search engines
  in finding the _at_cogain.org aliases?
• paivi.majaranta_at_cogain.org vs. forename.surname
  _at_cogain.org
• Contact person for this WP Päivi Majaranta
• Email address wp1_at_cogain.org