Project Log

Our group has shifted away from the presentation and into full white paper mode. Remaining sections not covered in the presentation have been "assigned" to group members. I created a basic cover page and a draft of the section covering Greater Lafayette HRC sites.

After evaluating our white paper outline and deciding which elements should be presented on Thursday the 20th, we each worked on slides and notes/scripts for the presentation. Frank focused on background and questions, Rita focused on HRC sites beyond Tippecanoe County, Karen focused on opportunities for TCHRC website development, and I focused on Greater Lafayette sites. Due to difficulties in aligning our schedules, we communicated through the weekend and into this week through e-mail and our Drop.io site.

Right now we are waiting on an interview, and then we are going to rock it out in a marathon group writing session. Everyone is feeling pretty good about the whole outline thing, which means that we mostly need to get the text in there. Our recommendations are mainly educational I think. The outlying area in Tipp. needs to know more about what discrimination looks and feels like before they report it, and if the educational sponsor is the Council, all the better.

Our group has gathered a great deal of research, so it looks like the next step is to figure out where to focus our attention for the white paper.

Magnificent Cougar To Do List!
Ex Sum: Name problem (HRCT does not get complaints) and possible solutions (educating about discrimination, raising awareness, stream-lining the process for easy communication)
Intro: More in depth with issue and the research and areas that we investigated WOOT!
Background/research/previous approaches:History, local issues, WLHRC and LHRC and their work, how other communities work with HRC and their processes...  
Solutions:

here is the email that I got from John Metzinger. Tre Helpful.

Frank represented our group at Monday's TCHRC meeting.  In addition to completing a first draft list of interview questions, we are in the process of reviewing the resources listed in the attached file (it's Word 2007, so you'll need Firefox to open it).

At our first meeting on October 7, we talked about who could attend the October 20th meeting (Frank), Karen and Rita offered to do some initial web research, and I was given the task of opening a Google Docs site. Each of us agreed to contribute questions to the interview question list, our first Google Docs document.