Blueprint-tech-agenda

A. Information Valet Service mission 11 a.m. -11:30 a.m.

• Confirm/revise today's agenda/schedule
• Confirm mission and any supporting objectives
  • See: http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/about/
  • Also: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/valet.pdf

B. Ownership, control structure -- 11:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.

• Densmore outlines proposed corporate structure

C. Potential role of The Associated Press -- 11:45 a.m.-noon

• Randy Picht will use WebEx to present features of AP Exchange

D. Elements of the service -- noon-1 p.m.

• What problem(s) are we going to solve?
• Who are our target partners/customers?
• Discuss and reach consensus on the service features
• What are the relationships supported/enabled?
• What are the values exchanged?
• What are similar existing services?

E. Lunch (in the hotel restaurant -- half the cost of catering)

• Continue discussing features/relationships to be supported

F. The nuts and bolts -- 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

• Diagram / agree on the relationships
• Be explicit about things InfoValet will **not** do (eg: determine pricing/bundling)
• Identify the necessary technologies, partners
• Define the relationships among them
• Determine what's off the shelf, or what needs to be built in terms of interfaces or missing pieces.

G. Documentation - 3 p.m.-3:45 p.m.

• Document our proposal sufficiently for Steve Mott/Bill Densmore to incorporate into the InfoValet Project development plan.

H. Next steps

• Confirm next steps.

Jeff's observation

Jeff VanderClute observes in email:
This can probably just be stated verbally, but I'd like the group to give itself permission to view Information Valet as a multiphase evolution, so that we're not trying to solve too many problems simultaneously.