Week Six

Since Week 5 was a slow, short week, I will talk about our meeting that we had with CTAN before the holiday break. Vanessa, Emily, and myself created a Power Point presentation. This presentation included some of the following information:

1) how many organizations we have sent the survey to

2) how many organizations have replied

3) some primarily statistics according to the responses we have received so far 

The meeting went pretty well. The first half was mostly discussions between the CTAN members and what was needed to be done for the upcoming year. Most of the information did not pertain to us, but it was most certainly a learning experience and seeing what goes on behind the scenes. The second half of the meeting was all about us, and it was our time to showcase our presentation and the data we collected. We started our presentation, and everyone seemed to enjoy the information that was being presented to them. It was also nice to hear feedback from the members along with some insightful suggestions. Most importantly, we compiled a list of the organizations separated into three different sections: organizations we could not get in contact with, organizations who were "dragging their feet", and organizations who were simply not interested. We gave out this list to everyone at the meeting, so they could all take a look. Everyone worked as a team, and we got many of the members to help us contact some of the organizations they were familiar and had connections with.  In addition, they gave us updated contact information for many of the site directors. Because of their help, we received many more responses. Lydia and Chantel were a big help, too. Being able to talk to them in person, rather than e-mail, was very effective because sometimes information can be misinterpreted through text.