1st Year Plan

Mission and Purpose

1st Year Plan-- Fall 2004-Fall 2005

The objectives listed below outline the general goals for the first year of the Consortium. These goals are subject to change and more detailed definition as the work of the Consortium progresses:

The Formation of the Consortium
This task includes holding the initial Symposium for the enCore Consortium, signing up members, establishing the Consortium as a non-profit organization, and electing the initial group of Directors.

The Promotion of the Consortium
This task includes publicizing the Consortium's activities, continuing to sign up new members, and seeking funding--from grants, institutions, and individuals--to support the Consortium's work

enCore Program Development
The Consortium quickly hopes to identify key development tasks and coordinate individuals or institutions to perform them. Within the first three months, the Consortium hopes to begin offering grants to fund work on the enCore Program.

Report on Consortium Activities (updated March 2005)

Formation--

Sept. 2004--successful enCore Symposium (online). Consortium task forces formed.

Dec. 2004--enCore Consortium successfully formed as unincorporated, non-profit organization

Dec. 2004--Election of Steering Committee
Lennie Irvin, San Antonio College--President
Barbara McManus, College of New Rochelle--Treasurer
Dene Grigar, Texas Women's University--Secretary
Daniel Jung, University of Bergen, Norway
Cynthia Haynes, University of Dallas
Rhonna J. Robbins-Sponaas, Norway
Jeffrey Schneider, Vassar College

Jan. 2005--Consortium receives seed money contribution from the Flohr Family Foundation

Jan. 2005--Consortium officers meet with Jan Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes to coordinate the efforts of the Consortium with the established enCore MOO Project. The two efforts are agreed to be in essence one project with the Consortium being the development side of the enCore MOO Project.

Promotion--

Jan. 2005--establish website and domain with name encore-consortium.org

March 2005--effort begins in earnest to sign up members to the Consortium.

Summer 2005--beginning of grant applications

Aug. 2005--enCore Symposium to be held at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Program Development--

Fall 2004--extensive discussion on development issues

Jan. 2005--lead programmer Daniel Jung secures position at University of Bergen that enables extensive focus on enCore programming. The Consortium agrees to support his efforts.

enCore v. 5 in development

Spring 2005 beta version release, usability testing

Fall 2005 official release

For access to the Consortium's initial communication's site where much of the discussion related to these three areas occured, please visit: http://encore-consortium.org/moodle/

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