Who does what and when in the Project Sharing Engine project
By Ed Mitchell 3rd November 2011
The Project Sharing Engine project is a funded experiment to explore how to link Transition Initiative websites together across the web to share information about Transition projects with the users of the Transition Initiative’s websites without them having to visit the Transition Network website.
Here is a rough breakdown of who is doing what, when, who is paid, who isn’t etc.:
Who is doing what?
- Funder:
- Nominet Trust: sponsoring the project and helping us keep it on track
- Paid ‘staff’:
- Project co-ordinator: 2 days per week from September 2011 to February 2013: Ed Mitchell
- Transition Technologists: working collaboratively with shared budgets in four stages from September 2011 to February 2013:
- Jim Kirkpatrick (lead developer)
- Laura Whitehead (designer)
- Chris Croome (systems administrator)
- with the possibility of others if needed
- Volunteers:
- ‘Alpha’ webmasters group: coming to three face to face meetings (expenses paid) and engaging with the alpha and beta design processes
- ‘Beta’ webmasters group: acting as a ‘beta’ testing group when the beta product is ready
The approximate timeline:
| Thing | Date | Who |
| Email invite | 26/09/11 | Ed |
| Survey responses deadline | 10/10/11 | All |
| Webmasters CoP meeting 1: consultation and co-design | First week: 11/11 |
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| Development of alpha product | Winter 2011/12 |
|
| Trial of alpha product | April 2012 | Webmasters |
| Webmasters CoP meeting 2: review of alpha | Early summer 2012 | Webmasters |
| More development to beta product | Summer 2012 |
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| Trial of beta product | Autumn 2012 | Webmasters |
| More development | Autumn 2012 |
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| Launch of product | November 2012 | All |
| Observe, watch, measure, fidget generally | Winter 2012/13 | All |
| Webmasters CoP meeting 3: product evaluation | Feb 2013 | Webmasters |