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Appendix 7: Project Monitoring Weekly Reports (Condensed)
During the months of September, October, November, and December 2004, the project
coordinator, Noémi Giszpenc made the following progress reports.
Week ending October 3
9/22: phone conference with Lynn Benander, Dan Keshet, and Paul Fitzpatrick to discuss
progress of prototype coop directory and development of online communities tools. Next
meeting: 10/22, 3 pm.
9/27: Checked for any new survey responses on the web survey. Found five and inputted
them. Total responses now up to 28.
9/27: Sent database of contacts and list of organizations that have already responded to
survey to Lynn Benander of CDI, who has promised staff time to conduct phone surveys.
9/28: Wrote and sent Lynn a draft script for phone surveys.
9/28: Sent query to Lynn about timing for phone surveys and for sending link to online
survey to the readership of the Cooperative Life Leader, e-newsletter of Cooperative Life.
Week ending October 10
10/4: Attended Cooperative Life board meeting in Greenfield, MA. Presented update of
work so far to fellow board members. We discussed methods for obtaining remaining
market data (finishing survey). This will be done by CDI staff members in weeks to
come. Lynn has promised me an estimate of when that work will be finished.
The board ratified the decision of online product committee members to keep the
functioning of the directory completely open but frequently backed up in order to keep a
spirit of openness without being too vulnerable to potential mischief--the "wiki" model.
At the board meeting, we also discussed desired features of the messaging
capability that is to be associated with the directory, as well as possible pricing
configurations that could generate income for Cooperative Life.
10/7, 10/8 and 10/9: met with Paul Fitzpatrick to tell him about the board's discussion of
directory and messaging features. He showed me the progress on the directory: its search
capability has been sped up considerably and he has added a "proximity" search that can
return listings within a certain geographic radius.
10/9: Sent a message to Lynn requesting missing information on organization sectors.