NEXT MEETING:

Market Avenue Wine Bar

Ohio City

Tuesday, February 13

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Upstairs Meeting Room reserved

Map: http://www.google.com/maps?q=2526+Market+Ave,+Cleveland,+OH+44113&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Meeting Notes 20070207

Lorain County Community College

4:00 PM tour of Stocker Performing Arts Center and Spitzer Conference Center

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Working Dinner Meeting

Agenda

Introductions

Overview of Open Source Economic Development

Defrag Ohio overview of Dec 2006 conference & After Action Review 20061219

Next Steps

In attendance:

Terrance Green, LCCC, curriculum design, 3D, immersive environments, tgreen@lorainccc.edu

Susan Altshuler I-Open economic development susanaltshuler@gmail.com

Tracy Green LCCC Foundation entrepreneurship, regional innovation development tagreen@lorainccc.edu

Barbara Oney Digital Airport Initiative narrow casting, interactive media tools for regional destination bsiss@adelphia.net

Rick Pollack Entrepreneur gaming, learning rpollack@one.net

Mike Gesing NEOhio.org communications, audio storytelling mike@neohio.org

Dennis Ryan LCCC photography, art, digital design dryan@lorainccc.edu

Mike Substelny LCCC distance learning, online curriculum msubstel@lorainccc.edu

Valdis Krebs Orgnet.com mapping and molding economic development networks valdis@orgnet.com

Dennis Coughlin I-Open economic development denniscoughlin@i-open.org

Rich Weiss Ingenuity art, technology rich@ingenuitycleveland.org

Sarah Tayor wind power, est. first fresh water wind farm NEO sarah@windindustries.org

John Butkowski Lorain Manufacturing Cncl manufacturing, nanotech jbutkowski@windstream.net

Michael Challender Lorain Growth Corp loraingrowth@centurytel.net

Sudhir Raghupathy Everything Energy RealNEO sustainability, organizational behavior, regional collaboration sudhir@everythingenergy.org

Betsey Merkel I-Open economic development betseymerkel@gmail.com

Florin Muscutariu LCCC mathmatics fmuscuta@lorainccc.edu

Rough Meeting Notes below. Conference program and schedule forthcoming and to be posted here.

Review of OpportunityUpdatesTo20060208

Parking Lot:

How can the conference leverage symbiotics? Connect to NASA. How about a GeekFest? Open focused conversations.

Teams of interest and contributions:

Barbara/Sudhir: Breakout sessions: idea/brainstorming

Mike Challender: list out research connectivity

Rich Weiss: will provide guidance and connectivity to artists, technologists, etc who would like to preview Ingenuity Festival 2007 performances for the Fri April 13 Ohio Showcase of Digital Media Performance at Stocker Arts Center

Rich/Barbara: Energy development: LCI Institute, display technology - John West. KSU, Rich - Fashion -product display: EDR Media

EII at LCCC as a model of LEED compliant construction

Sudhir: Alternative Energy Efficiencies - Energy - IP/R & D

Rick Pollack:

• the conference should open by taking everyone into an immersed (projected) environment to establish a level of familiarity, experience and learning
• there should be a session on evangelizing
• DefragWorks: define standards of amassive educational multiplayer environment s that we do not end up with fragmented systems. Rick is writing a descriptive

Rick/Barbara: define the value of the gaming piece

T Green: will connect to Prof. Cook at KSU. Desire to target Second Life --> 3D immersive interaction innovations

John: technology innovations, ie., nano technology

John/Rich/Ponskys: Robotics FIRST competition

polymers and advanced materials

Mike: Collection and distribution of stories of Defrag Learners and Leaders

Our Next Steps:

1) connect up with your partner(s) above - see emails above 2) write a brief description of your idea/plan and send it to Betsey or post it to this wiki (contact betseymerkel@gmail.com for invitation to author) 3) move on to next steps.

Betsey will follow up, reconnect with (some) contributors for clarification and design a conference framework draft for discussion at the Tuesday 2-13 meeting.

Requests:

There is a request for the formation of a Defrag Ohio @ LorainCCC core team to guide strategic outcomes and deliverables for the April Defrag conference. This core team will identify and connect Lorain County strengths in rich media and guide the development of local resources and capabilities to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship.

There is a request to form a Defrag Ohio Leadership Collaborative to guide long term vision and planning of the Defrag Ohio network. This collaborative will identify and connect Ohio strengths in rich media and guide the development of Ohio resources and capabilities to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship.

If you would like to confirm your commitment to either group and learn what is required, or what you would like to see required for the development of the Defrag Lorain core team and the Defrag Ohio Leadership Collaborative, please email betseymerkel@gmail.com