Archive:7/20/07 Boston SCS Meeting Notes

Summary E-mail
"Hey there, so I've attached a transcript of the Shared Culture Space meeting to this e-mail. I think generally, these are the important points --

RESOURCES

-Stark will be speaking with Wilbanks tomorrow, and will be finding out what role he would like to play in an eventual space, and what timeframe he's interested in helping us out for (upfront funding, etc)

-She will also be getting in touch with her connects at Google and MacArthur Foundation

-Ben Sisto will be pinging the Berwick and some possible contacts at City Hall to give them the heads up and see if they might be able to provide any resources. (Berwick might be a participating 501c3)

-Driscoll will be getting in touch with 826, which is McSweeny's community writing center arm, to give them a heads up. (they're also setting up a space next year)

-Tim will be speaking to Nesson about possible funding sources.

-Stark suggested that SJ should talk to Berkman about funding.

MEETINGS

Recap on this: at the meeting between SJ/Oliver and myself, we were saying that a good way of getting people interested would be to hold an every other week meeting that met in different locations around Boston to share projects from different communities. The SCS space could be brought up in the context of that to build interest/find new resources. Plus, it provided a readymade farm of projects that an eventual space could house.

It was decided at the meeting that these would be a bigger draw if they were targeted at particular field (i.e. Music, Open Education, etc), with the SCS space being brought up at each meeting as a project. To that end, a Summer of Content intern would have two duties:

[1] Helping to set up these general meetings.

[2] Handling all the contact-work for clearing the way and getting individual group meetings between us and potential collaborators.

[3] A Dossier Project: Doing research and compiling information on groups in the Boston Area and figuring out how an SCS space would best fit their needs. This file will be really handy as the liasoning picks up in Sept.

MISC

-"Shared Culture Space" seems like a good consensus.

-Stark and Tim will be working out a one-sheet to give to potential donors over this weekend.

I'll follow up on the loose ends mentioned on the original doc individually. Comments, etc, much appreciated.

Thanks! Tim"

Transcript of this meeting available upon request, e-mail thwang@fas.harvard.edu