History Project Organizational Notes

Organization of IAGSDC History Project

Project Lead

Senior Editor

Section Editors

Awards

Callers

Clubs

Events

IAGSDC

People & 10/25 Interview Coordinator (Happy Doodle)

Related Organizations, Projects, Publications

Editorial Content

Guide to IAGSDC Convention - ask Debbie Ceder to finish breaking each subject down to a separate page

Club archives

Western Star Newsletters available via PDF - need someone to upload the newsletters and create an index. Preferably, the full text of each newsletter would be scanned in for searching.

Linking Crew - Headed up by Keith Gehrig

Run through entire wiki and latest articles, checking for:

Ambiguations

Names of people, places, and clubs that aren't already hyperlinked

Logistical Challenges

Backing up - documentation needed for both of these operations

The wiki content

The MySQL database

Legal

Turn this into a 501c(3) or similar nonprofit, with a formal board?

Define copyright and licensing standards

Organizational Challenges

Keeping People Excited

History Project gifts for milestones

25 articles and/or 100 pages = Project Polo Shirt

Major contributions to an article (subject to opinion of section editor) = Project Baseball Cap

Regular reports via LGCWSD mailing list

Establish History Project mailing list (Danny? Rich? QueerNet?)

Progress Meetings

Quarterly concall/webexes for project people?

Monthly or biweekly email report for project people?

Annual meeting at IAGSDC convention?

Representation at IAGSDC convention

Request table for project

Find someone to design a simple display for history project (ask AJH to fund the display)

IAGSDC Timeline ... long piece of paper laid out along long tables or on wall with plenty of writing implements, let people fill in their history.

Recruit timeline posting volunteers

Recruit timeline monitors

Recruit people to take down the timeline and prepare it for shipping

Recruit someone to read through the completed timeline and input the data

During History Project presentation, announce an award (baseball cap, polo shirt, etc.) for the first person to find (some very obscure bit of information in the wiki). Consider qualifying the winner as the first person who is NOT Frank Yellin.

Archival Project Challenges

Inventorying everything in Karl's home in Denver

Having everything scanned/digitized and posted to the wiki

Locating a permanent home for Karl's collection