organization

[Svend Holst]

I'm not all that tied to any particular organizational form. I know that SAXO is used to dealing with a board structure from the other side of the Atlantic, but don't think we need to feel tied to that structure.

If this community develops, seems to me that the consensus on issues we'd want to talk to SAXO about will be fairly easy to come by.

Cheers,

Svend

[Espen Holmen]

I think that those that are responsible for some area that interfaces with Saxotech should be the main contact person for that area. To me this makes more sense that having a chairman working as an intermediary.

If someone has the list that Amanda made and could post it, it would be helpful.

[Svend Holst]

Agreed. Do the areas I started us off with make sense? SAXoPress. Publicus. Systems.

Cheers,

Svend

[Paul Harris]

I believe it goes like this:

Programming:
Mike Schoepke, Paddock

Innovation - Digital:
Espen Holmen, NYTRMG
Howard Fielding, Republican-American

Website:
Svend Holst, Wenatchee World

Annual Conference:
Daniel Lacavalier, La Presse
Sherry Thien, St. Cloud Times
Doug Gass, Rockford Register Star

Membership
Sherry Thien, St. Cloud Times

Paul

[Paul Harris]

insert: "Innovation - Print" for Howard Fielding. my bad.

[amanda reiter]

Web site liaison: Svend Holst, I don't have your e-mail address Svend.
Innovation leader:
Online: Espen Holmen, [e-mail]
Print: Howard Fielding, [e-mail]
Programming chairman: Mike Schoepke, [e-mail]
Conference liaison: Daniel Lecavalier, [e-mail]; Doug Gass, [e-mail]; Sherry Thien, [e-mail]
Training liaison: available
Membership coordinator: Sherry Thien, [e-mail]
PR/Marketing: available.

Are there any other areas we should concentrate on?

I like the areas you started... I think I might add tips/tricks/workarounds. Also, I might start a forum or blog about what I learned at the Users Conference this year. I have to send an e-mail to my managing editor, so i might at well post it here at well.

[Howard Fielding]

A loose organization is probably the best way for a users group to work. We start out by defining a few volunteers for various duties; other needs will evolve and other people will step forward to meet them.

The previous attempts at forming a user group failed, I think, because too much responsibility was placed on the chairman, and no other roles were defined. As we often learn at my office, everybody's responsibility is nobody's responsibility. So Amanda's list of certain "point people" will be the secret to our success by both distributing and defining the roles.

I didn't realize that we could have more than one name per role, otherwise I would have volunteered for the annual conference too. But I think we can all contribute to any of these topics through these forums.

[Svend Holst]

Nothing is defined. We've just started this. We can volunteer for anything at this point.

We're far from determining anything but a starting point.

Cheers,

Svend