{"id":252,"date":"2004-08-26T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/08262004-meeting-notes\/"},"modified":"2004-08-26T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T00:00:48","slug":"08262004-meeting-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/08262004-meeting-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"08\/26\/2004 Meeting Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a161'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2004\/08\/26 Meeting notes<\/p>\n<p>These notes are a best effort.<\/p>\n<p>Blog your corrections and commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WK: Wendy Koslow\n<li>j:  j Baumgart\n<li>Sun<br \/>\n<LI>BI: Bill Ives<\/p>\n<li>SR: Shimon Rura\n<li>LW: Lisa Williams\n<li>AG: Andrew Grumet\n<li>MF: Michael Feldman\n<li>GR: Gregor Rothfuss\n<li>NP: Nathan Paxton of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/natep\/\">Nate Knows Nada<\/a>\n<li>MF: Michael Feldman\n<li>RF: Randy Fenstermacher\n<\/ul>\n<p>DW: David Weinberger, Berkman Fellow<\/p>\n<li>JD: Jared Dunn\n<li>WA: Warren Agin, a bankruptcy lawyer and new <a href=\"http:\/\/frassle.rura.org\/Directory\/index?feed=475\">Frassler<\/a>\n<li>RM: Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman Fellow\n<li>JD2: James Day\n<li>SP: Steve Pomeroy\n<li>RH: Rick Heller\n<li>RM: Rebecca MacKinnon &#8211;&gt;\n<p>There will be no Webcast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/2004\/08\/24#a159\">Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recap of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonblogs.com\/archives\/2004\/08\/join_us_boston.html\">blog meetup<\/a> last week\n<ul>\n<li>LW: it was fun, met people who don&#8217;t come to these meetings, but it was difficult because we couldn&#8217;t hear everyone at the meeting<\/ul>\n<li>Lisa&#8217;s interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/berkman-thursday\/message\/921\">getting  political candidates blogging<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>(Note: the link goes to a Yahoo! Group message that may require a login.)\n<li>There&#8217;s a potential Congressional race for a spot representing some of the suburbs of Boston. LW thinks getting the politicians blogging could be a good thing and wants us to help them.\n<li>LW: They&#8217;ll have to get their own blogs established, not blog on  Harvard&#8217;s server.\n<li>BI: What would our role be in this?\n<li>LW: providing tech support, helping them get going<br \/>\n<LI>LW: outlined three issues: authenticity, naming, and examples<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how authentic is it if the candidate doesn&#8217;t write his own blog?\n<li>MF: are we doing the right thing giving them blogs? They&#8217;re small candidates, small office, will they have the time?\n<li>A politician will blog when a blogger gets in office.\n<ul>\n<li>LW: Lis Riba, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osmond-riba.org\/lis\/journal\/\">blogger<\/a>, was considering running.<\/ul>\n<li>BI: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandtanglao.com\/\">Roland Tanglao<\/a> was involved in something like that or the company he works for does<br \/>\n<Li>LW: &#8220;We should look for candidate blogs written by real people. I know of at least 5, but they aren&#8217;t local: Missouri, Illinois, Oregon or Washington, California &#8230; They&#8217;re out there, we just need to find them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<li>MF: let&#8217;s use LW&#8217;s form letter\n<li>LW: can we name our group something for the letter that doesn&#8217;t offend the Berkman Center?\n<ul>\n<li>LW can&#8217;t call it a Berkman Center project for a number of reasons, but we can say it&#8217;s a project of bloggers affiliated with the center.<\/ul>\n<p><Li>MF: let&#8217;s get them a blog on Harvard&#8217;s server\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Update on the blog server\n<ul>\n<li>WK: Berkman has hired a Userland guy to work on the server\n<li>Berkman is working on offering an alternative platform that they will also host\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/frassle.rura.org\/\">Frassle<\/a> is one of the platforms they&#8217;re considering offering. WK didn&#8217;t name any others.<\/ul>\n<li>Berkman will not shut the server down\n<li>Is it possible to get at least one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/harvard-weblog-support\/message\/205\">server administrators to come to a future meeting<\/a>?\n<ul>\n<li>(Note: the link goes to a Yahoo! Group message that may require a login.)\n<li>Wendy has a pretty decent update; if after that we still want a sysadmin to come, we can work on that<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Harvard blogs&#8217; aggregators should now be able to handle Atom feeds\n<li>Locking the managing editor out of the blog\n<ul>\n<li>Apparently, if you delete all of the e-mail addresses in the managing editor&#8217;s box in the preferences on a Harvard Manila blog, the blog can lose all of its managing editors. There is no mechanism to prevent someone from being locked out of a blog. Please be careful!<\/ul>\n<li>MF: Purpose of the group\n<ul>\n<li>j: Do we need a real purpose other than just meeting?\n<li>MF: Yes. Proselytize blogging (like teach new bloggers, support development of new projects), conferences, research, and social stuff.\n<li>SR: We need momentum, but not anything official, like officers\n<li>SR: We need a better blog or site that explains what the group does\n<ul>\n<li>j: what would you want to see that&#8217;s more than this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thursdaymeetings\/\">Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog<\/a><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>LW: We need to have special guests at each meeting\n<ul>\n<li>Someone suggested bugging former bloggers, group members to come back\n<li>WK: This week, it&#8217;s Nathan of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/natep\/\">Nate Knows Nada<\/a>\n<li>LW: really wants guest speakers<\/ul>\n<li>Sun: we need a name for our group<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2004\/08\/26 Meeting notes These notes are a best effort. Blog your corrections and commentary. 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