2016-02-18

• Introducing Sarah! She is the new intern for the DRS Project Toolkit
• Bahare has a class she will be meeting with and appears to be going forward with working with the Boston Atlas Habitat Maps project.
• Grant proposal for DRS Maps has been successfully submitted.
• We are looking for a new name for DRS. SO far we are going with CERES.
• Thoreau project is moving forward
• We are trying to move it into CERES instead of Omeka
• Data clean up will finish around July
• We will check in around May
• We are trying to move to CERES for annotation and GIS projects, since now we are developing for those.
• We should be more watchful of the early prototyping projects
• Wikipedia teaching event is coming up!
• A Wiki Ed person is coming and there will be a fun two hour workshop with Amanda and Cecelia
• Steven and Bahare are in the process of making some handouts
• Also working on re-purposing their talk about the GIS and Data Viz tools

• Amanda went to an MOU webinar
• Stand for Memorandum of Understanding/Agreement
• MoU is not legally binding. It is typically the agreement before the agreement and money tends not to change hands with this
• Useful for avoiding lawyers, contracts make people uncomfortable, etc
• MoU can be very useful for delicate negotiations
• Don't use overly legal language, also preface by saying it's not legally binding in order to not accidentally write a contract.
• Don’t use obscure and technical language, talk to each other like humans.
• MoUs are a team sport - who needs to be involved: the people doing project work, not just administrators!
• Things like goals can be helpful