Present: Nick, Liam, Kasia, Giota, Anna, Tina, Engin, Patrick, Karen, Sara, Doug

Apologies: Elpida, Andreia, Eileen, Canan, Simon, Michelle, Ann

Announcements

• OER10 conference - arrangements being made.
• Openlearn event, next Tuesday afternoon, Jan 19th,  in the afternoon. Patrick and Karen will be there with OLnet banner on a stand from 2pm. Presentation at 4pm, will be webcast on KMi Stadium - publicly available.
• A series of workshops in IET relating to their programmes of work are underway. Patrick is leading much of that. OLnet work is key. This is looking at OLnet's inward connection to the OU. Karen has the dates of the meetings. OLnet is located in the 'Learning in an Open World' Programme, which is headed by Grainne.
• 27 January - next update teleconference with Hewlett. Karen will circulate the draft report tomorrow (hopefully) for us to comment.
• Wikisym 2010 - co-hosted with Wikimania, in Gdansk Poland, Gdansk, beginning of July. The Open Collaboration Programme Track is coordinated by Giota. Deadline for papers is 7 March - will go in to ACM journal after peer review.
• Sara has been promoted to Support Team Manager. So won't be giving us the same support - she needs to find us a replacement.

Present: Doug, Engin, Patrick, Liam, Elpida, Michelle, Nick, Karen, Sara, Anna, Andreia, Tina, Andy, Brandon Muramatsu (and Andy Lane part way through)

Apologies: Ann, Kasia, Giota, Simon (late?), Anna, Canan, Eileen

1. Welcome to Brandon Muramatsu
Visiting us from MIT. http://www.mura.org/

2. Team introductions and updates (key points only)

Present: Tina, Andreia, Karen, Sara, Giota, Kasia, Doug, Ann, Engin, Nick, Eileen, Anna, Michelle, Simon

Apols: Patrick, Canan, Elpida, Grainne

Announcements

Martin Bean (OU VC) coming to IET on 10th November, to generally and informally meet people from 12-1pm. All welcome. There'll be posters around in the area NE of the 1st floor of the Jennie Lee Building, but no formal presentations. May be tricky to get real work done there while the posters are going up for those who usually work in the area (which is a lot of us.)

Location

In an effort to be more open about what we're doing as we're doing it, I (Doug) am going to be liveblogging our regular OLnet team meetings. Some things may not be entirely clear or understandable, but this should give you a view in to what we're doing as we plan to do it. Do bear in mind that these are partial, incomplete and sometimes downright inaccurate notes captured at speed and do not reflect a final considered view of the OLnet project - or indeed any of the individual mentioned.