Suggestions to improve NPC

Ninlil's Project Cheat Sheet

Suggestions	Suggested answer(s);	Suggested Person to contact	Ninlil Xeltentat Tasks	Willing Volunteer
List of groups (ad hoc committees, etc.) and when they meet.	List groups/committees on wiki along with times.		Assign someone the task of gathering information and adding it to wiki. NPO Techs, who else?
List of groups (ad hoc committees, etc.) and when they meet.	Allow people to add events to Google Group Calendar.		find Smash's email address and contact him regarding opening permissions for everyone to post. Assign someone to monitoring the calendar and cleaning it up periodically.
List of groups (ad hoc committees, etc.) and when they meet.	or at least assign 2 or 3 people to keep it up to date; currently the SLCC events are not reflected there at B10
Updated Tenant Directory with SLURL’s and office #’s for each office on all 4 sims.	Number all offices on Eco commons and Health sims		have someone put the parcel # in each person's parcel name, and also have the number somewhere on the outside of their offices
Updated Tenant Directory with SLURL’s and office #’s for each office on all 4 sims.	Continue present work of updating Tenant list on all sims.		will check in with them
List of NPC affiliated groups that do not have offices in NPC(Friends of NPC?)	Onsite/offsite kiosks. On site kiosks are in prototype development. Suggested that off site kiosks be similar if not the same	DJ Earnshaw, Eirene Janus, Itico Spectre	have DJ and Eirene take the prototype for the onsite kiosk and modify it to make it so we can control it from our sim on other people's sims.
List of NPC affiliated groups that do not have offices in NPC(Friends of NPC?)	List of Friends of NPC, on wiki or elsewhere.		assign someone the task of making a friends of NPC page
Consolidate all NPC freebies. (office in a box, etc)	Update office in a box, perhaps with several folders in it.	Adalace Jewell	check in with them	This is completed. Adalace did a fantastic job!
Consolidate all NPC freebies. (office in a box, etc)	Put NPC or Techsoup branded freebies for sale on Xstreet, or similar places.		assign someone to do this after swag is updated	Need to do this with shirts.
Improve ways to greet visitors to NPC.	Make a schedule for a “greeting group.		draft up a greeter schedule	There is a greeter tracking sheet on google docs. List of greeters need to participate.
Improve ways to greet visitors to NPC.	Make a board/list of when managers of NPC are online to answer questions.		have all managers place an answering machine in techsoup office	Online indicators now located in NPC office. Completed by Ninlil Xeltentat with the help of Makin Chemistry's awesome Online Indicator tool. Anyone want to build a one prim one?
Have better communication with educational groups in SL.	Dusty Artaud has volunteered to be “Educational Ambassador” and look into this further.	Dusty Artaud	check in with Dusty
“Newbie” conference for NPSL community.	Re-invigorating mentor program		contact mentors via email/in world
“Newbie” conference for NPSL community.	Possibly link with community Gateway		have mentors start off by taking newbies through community gateway
Expand “Meet Your Neighbor” series outside of NPC meetings	Organizations have “get to know us” office hours.		establish get to know us office hours guidelines, and have them posted on the calendar
Aggregate NPSL tagged blogs into a tool.	No suggestions yet.
Social media explanatory sheet.	No suggestions yet.		have social media instructors write up a sheet
Explore NPSL security further.	No suggestions yet.		write up best practices for security	This has already been written by Smash and Ninlil and placed on the google doc for security/greeters.
*For faster list building, less duplication, and more accuracy, all current tenants could add their Facebook link into that new official Tenants Directory at http://npsl.wiki.techsoup.org/NPC+Tenant+Directory		Tuty Inkpen	contact Tuty about it
*On NPC sign-up and space request form: in addition to asking for them to provide the link to their logo, ask them to also provide their FB page/group link			contact whoever designs those documents
*All newly created wiki pages should be appropriately tagged so that they come up in the wiki search results			Ninlil will send out announcements and encourage people to tag their wiki pages if they want them found
*If you are on the wiki and find a page that has no tags, take 30 seconds and add some. (Instructions on how to add tags to wiki pages: http://npsl.wiki.techsoup.org/How+to+Edit+Wiki+Page+Tags)

Tuty's Notes

Part of the 7/24/09 meeting was dedicated to suggestions from everyone on ways to improve NPC. The following list is taken from that meeting.

1) List of groups (ad hoc committees, etc.) and when they meet.
Suggested answer(s);
a) List groups/committees on wiki along with times.
b) Allow people to add events to Google Group Calendar.
-- or at least assign 2 or 3 people to keep it up to date; currently the SLCC events are not reflected there at all

2) Updated Tenant Directory with SLURL’s and office #’s for each office on all 4 sims.
Suggested answer(s);
a) Number all offices on Eco commons and Health sims
b) Continue present work of updating Tenant list on all sims.

3) List of NPC affiliated groups that do not have offices in NPC(Friends of NPC?)
Suggested answer(s);
a) Onsite/offsite kiosks. On site kiosks are in prototype development. Suggested that off site kiosks be similar if not the same
b) List of Friends of NPC, on wiki or elsewhere.

4) Consolidate all NPC freebies. (office in a box, etc)
Suggested answer(s);
a) Update office in a box, perhaps with several folders in it.
b) Put NPC or Techsoup branded freebies for sale on Xstreet, or similar places.

5) Improve ways to greet visitors to NPC.
Suggested answer(s);
a) Make a schedule for a “greeting group.
b) Make a board/list of when managers of NPC are online to answer questions.

Part 2
From 7/31/09 NPC meeting
6) Have better communication with educational groups in SL.
Suggested answer(s);
a) Dusty Artaud has volunteered to be “Educational Ambassador” and look into this further.

7) “Newbie” conference for NPSL community.
Suggested answer(s);
a) Re-invigorating mentor program
b) Possibly link with community Gateway

8) Expand “Meet Your Neighbor” series outside of NPC meetings
Suggested answer(s);
a) Organizations have “get to know us” office hours.

9) Aggregate NPSL tagged blogs into a tool.
Suggested answer(s);
No suggestions yet.

10) Social media explanatory sheet.
Suggested answer(s);
No suggestions yet.

11) Explore NPSL security further.
Suggested answer(s);
No suggestions yet.

This discussion will be continued in the future NPC meetings. All are welcome and encouraged to make suggestions for improvements or possible solutions as well as general comments.

Newer Suggestions
*For faster list building, less duplication, and more accuracy, all current tenants could add their Facebook link into that new official Tenants Directory at http://npsl.wiki.techsoup.org/NPC+Tenant+Directory
*On NPC sign-up and space request form: in addition to asking for them to provide the link to their logo, ask them to also provide their FB page/group link
*All newly created wiki pages should be appropriately tagged so that they come up in the wiki search results
*If you are on the wiki and find a page that has no tags, take 30 seconds and add some. (Instructions on how to add tags to wiki pages: http://npsl.wiki.techsoup.org/How+to+Edit+Wiki+Page+Tags)