Dear partners,
it is decided to postpone the telco of this week, as only 3 out of the 6
partners are available.
The "Methodological Framework" together with the questionnaire, that was
scheduled to be presented during our meeting, will be e-mailed to all team
members from Dlearn this week.
Similarly, ATL plans to send a first draft of the "Management, Coordination
and Evaluation Plan" by next week.
I have created a new poll in Framadate called: "FOSS4SMEs 2nd
Teleconference": https://framadate.org/BBRtfQfCfnUHjx3i
I hope we manage to find a suitable date for our next online meeting.
Dont forget that the suggested time is UTC and e-mail me as soon as
possible if there is still no suitable time for u in the poll.
Best,
Katerina
Dear partner,
this is just to inform you that I have just uploaded in our common Keybase repository the following documents:
- final version of the Methodological Framework (+ Annexes)
- first draft of the Quality Plan (please provide comments if you have any).
In addition, please find below the link for the online version of our questionnaire, which is now active only in English:
https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/174174
Translations will be added as soon as we have them, where necessary.
Wish you all a happy Christmas!
Warm regards,
Francesco Agresta
Dear partners,
this is just a kind reminder.
Please send us in electronic format the signed partner agreement and the
invoice, together with the details of your bank account so that we can
proceed with the payment.
Best,
Katerina
Dear FOSS4SMEs team,
while I was looking in Twitter for interesting events for our project, I
found this one: http://alldigitalweek.eu/
*"The pan-European ALL DIGITAL Week is following in the footsteps of Get
Online Week organised in 2010-2017. It is an annual digital empowerment
campaign run at digital competence centres, libraries, schools, community
centres and non-for-profits across Europe, bringing 100,000 Europeans every
year in exciting online and offline events tackling digital transformation
and its effects.*" (copied from website)
It looks like a big initiative with big supporters.
Who is willing and is able to check this out and perhaps take it over?
I imagine that DIT, SKUNI and DLEARN would be more interested in this. Of
course, involvement from FSFE and OFE would be more than welcome.
In any case it would be good, if we all consider events to present the
FOSS4SMEs project until May, so we can plan ahead and help each other.
I am looking forward to your thoughts.
We could also talk about it in more details in our next telco.
Best,
Katerina and Ifigeneia
Dear Francesco,
attached I am sending you the scanned evaluation sheets of our kick-off
meeting.
Best,
Katerina
On 23 November 2017 at 17:24, Francesco Agresta <francesco.agresta(a)dlearn.eu
> wrote:
> Dear Ifigeneia and all,
>
> thank you for putting together the MoM and for sharing this first draft
> version.
>
> I have just one comment to make on it, please see the attached file
> revisioned.
>
> Wish you all a nice weekend.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Francesco
>
>
> Il 19 novembre 2017 alle 15.55 Ifigeneia Metaxa <metaxa(a)abe.gr> ha
> scritto:
>
> Dear all,
>
> It was a very fruitful kick-off meeting. It was nice discussing with all
> of you in our premises in Thessaloniki. Hopefully, you have all managed to
> return home without any surprises on your way.
>
> 1. MINUTES
>
> We have now drafted a first version of the minutes of our kick-off meeting
> and we invite you to read them carefully and give us your comments (with
> track change) by next Thursday 23.11.17. We attach for this also the
> PowerPoint presentation used during the meeting, as well as the 2
> presentation files of our colleagues from SKUNI and Dlearn in pdf form.
> Thank you in advance for your feedback.
>
> 2. QUESTIONNAIRE
>
> Another attachment is the “Research Methodological Framework” presented
> during our meeting from Dlearn. As discussed during our meeting, ATL has
> scheduled to participate in a dissemination event on the 23rd of
> November. As a result, it would be great for us to have the questionnaire
> ready by the 21th of November in the morning. Dear Francesco, would it be
> possible for you to check and finalise the survey until Tuesday?
>
> Here are the credentials to log into the survey site:
>
> Webpage: https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/admin/index
>
> Username: katerina
>
> Password: UrqITUORIfsT
>
>
>
> 3. KEYBASE
>
>
>
> We are very excited to start using a FOSS tool for our communication and
> exchange of files. We would like to ask Pedro to help us create a
> sharing-file in Keybase in the coming days.
>
>
>
> Finally, we are happy to inform you, that we have now created a Twitter
> account for our project. Here are the credentials in you want to post
> something on our page:
>
> https://twitter.com/FOSS4SMEs
>
> Username: tsinari(a)abe.gr
>
> Password: 2310233266 <231%20023%203266>
>
>
>
> 4. CONTRACT
>
> Unfortunately, no news here yet, but we will push things a bit more for
> the upcoming week.
>
>
>
> We are looking forward to the collaboration and what we believe will be a
> great knowledge sharing experience.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ifigeneia
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Ifigeneia Metaxa [mailto:metaxa@abe.gr]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 08, 2017 9:50 PM
> *To:* 'DLearn - Gianluca Coppola' <gianluca.coppola(a)dlearn.eu>;
> 'Antonella Tozzi' <antonella.tozzi(a)dlearn.eu>; '
> francesco.agresta(a)dlearn.eu' <francesco.agresta(a)dlearn.eu>; '
> elisa.chiesa(a)dlearn.eu' <elisa.chiesa(a)dlearn.eu>; '
> diana(a)openforumeurope.org' <diana(a)openforumeurope.org>; '
> pedro(a)openforumeurope.org' <pedro(a)openforumeurope.org>; '
> sachiko(a)openforumeurope.org' <sachiko(a)openforumeurope.org>; '
> deirdre.lillis(a)dit.ie' <deirdre.lillis(a)dit.ie>; Brian Keegan <
> brian.x.keegan(a)dit.ie>; 'jonas(a)fsfe.org' <jonas(a)fsfe.org>; Max Mehl <
> max.mehl(a)fsfe.org>; 'jonas.gamalielsson(a)his.se' <jonas.gamalielsson(a)his.se>;
> 'bjorn.lundell(a)his.se' <bjorn.lundell(a)his.se>; 'Katerina Tsinari' <
> katerina.tsinari(a)gmail.com>; 'tsinari(a)abe.gr' <tsinari(a)abe.gr>
> *Cc:* 'ivana.andro(a)gmail.com' <ivana.andro(a)gmail.com>; 'vamvalis(a)abe.gr' <
> vamvalis(a)abe.gr>; 'milenkovic(a)abe.gr' <milenkovic(a)abe.gr>
> *Subject:* RE: FOSS4SMEs: Preparation for kick off 13.11-14.11 in
> Thessaloniki
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> With this e-mail I would like to invite you officially to our Kick-off
> meeting, which is going to take place in our premises in Thessaloniki (GR)
> on the 13th and 14th of November 2017. Please find attached the agenda for
> our meeting. We apologise for the delay. We are looking forward to your
> contributions and our fruitful discussions that will clarify and determine
> our future steps.
>
>
>
> It would be nice if we could have a brief introduction of your
> organisation and your main activities in the project (in 2-3 presentation
> slides), so we can circulate the information before the meeting; if
> possible by Friday 10.11. We would like to kindly ask our partners from
> Dlearn a few slides on “The Common Methodological Framework” and from DIT
> on “Free and Open Source Software Training Course”. We know we are late to
> ask for this, but we trust that most of you have already prepared something.
>
>
>
> Finally, I would like to do a first introduction of our colleague,
> Katerina Tsinari, who will be taking over the project from the Atlantis
> side. We believe that her expertise in VET/e-learning with the support of
> our IT team will facilitate the implementation of what we envisage is going
> to be a very interesting project.
>
>
>
> We are excited to meet you in person in Thessaloniki and kick-off this
> project. Thank you in advance for putting efforts in the preparation of our
> meeting.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ifigeneia
>
>
>
> *From:* Ifigeneia Metaxa [mailto:metaxa@abe.gr <metaxa(a)abe.gr>]
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 29, 2017 5:23 PM
> *To:* 'DLearn - Gianluca Coppola' <gianluca.coppola(a)dlearn.eu>;
> 'Antonella Tozzi' <antonella.tozzi(a)dlearn.eu>; '
> francesco.agresta(a)dlearn.eu' <francesco.agresta(a)dlearn.eu>; '
> diana(a)openforumeurope.org' <diana(a)openforumeurope.org>; '
> sachiko(a)openforumeurope.org' <sachiko(a)openforumeurope.org>; '
> deirdre.lillis(a)dit.ie' <deirdre.lillis(a)dit.ie>; Brian Keegan <
> brian.x.keegan(a)dit.ie>; 'jonas(a)fsfe.org' <jonas(a)fsfe.org>; '
> jonas.gamalielsson(a)his.se' <jonas.gamalielsson(a)his.se>; '
> bjorn.lundell(a)his.se' <bjorn.lundell(a)his.se>; 'schiessle(a)fsfe.org' <
> schiessle(a)fsfe.org>
> *Cc:* 'ivana.andro(a)gmail.com' <ivana.andro(a)gmail.com>; 'vamvalis(a)abe.gr' <
> vamvalis(a)abe.gr>; 'milenkovic(a)abe.gr' <milenkovic(a)abe.gr>
> *Subject:* FOSS4SMEs: Preparation for kick off 13.11-14.11 in
> Thessaloniki and 2nd Conference Call
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> It was a very fruitful teleconference. It was nice to discuss for the
> first time with all of you. A lot of issues for our project, please read
> carefully and with patience until the end. Thank you in advance!
>
>
>
> *A) MEETING WITH THE GREEK NATIONAL AGENCY (IKY)*
>
> 1. We have a very helpful, knowledgeable and demanding handler. The level
> of details during the audits is going to be quite thorough. The message is
> that as long that we stay close to them and inform them of any issues that
> may occur, they are there to help us. We are waiting for the contract
> signed between them and ourselves (ATL, the coordinator) and for the
> agreement among the coordinator and the partners to be forwarded. We
> anticipate that all *formalities* will have been resolved in the next
> couple of weeks. We will inform you as soon as possible. At this point, the
> worst case scenario in my mind is to have the partners’ agreement ready for
> signature in Thessaloniki.
>
> 2. We will need from all partners copies of the *boarding passes and
> hotel invoices*, as they request it to verify that partners have traveled
> to the transnational meetings.
>
> 3. Regarding O2: FOSS4sMEs training course. *Moodle without
> parametrization is not going to be accepted*. They don’t want to see just
> creation of accounts and a few slides. They strongly believe in our project
> and our consortium and they expect great results.
>
> 4. They would like to be *invited to multiplier and other events* linked
> to our project.
>
>
>
> *B) TYPICAL REQUIREMENTS UNTIL THE THESSALONIKI MEETING*
>
> 1. For the time being, please consider myself as the contact person on
> behalf of the *Project Coordinator Manager*, Mr. Cosmas Vamvalis, our
> Managing Director.
>
> 2. We would like to ask *DLEARN* to: i) appoint a *Quality Manager*, ii)
> provide the *common methodological framework* serving as a guideline for
> all partners in the research phase, including all items as described in
> O1/A1 *by 07.11* if possible, or at the Thessaloniki meeting at the
> latest, i.e. 13.11. Please note that according to the workplan all of us
> need to be working on this task from November till February (M02-M05) and
> that we can benefit from using the *questionnaires* during the events we
> organize on 09.11 and on 23.11 to hopefully gather inputs from the 20 SMEs
> in Greece.
>
> 3. We would like to ask all partners to appoint one representative for the *Management
> Committee* and one representative for the *Advisory Board* (it could be
> the same person).
>
>
>
> *C) PROJECT MANAGEMENT*
>
> 1. We have agreed for the time being to use GoToMeeting for our biweekly
> teleconferences. In order to arrange for the next one please vote in the
> following doodle https://doodle.com/poll/6yawap2agpuudnw5
>
> 2. We need to reach an agreement *for FOSS to be used for the
> implementation of our project *for: i) project management, ii) file
> sharing, iii) online meeting and messaging. I would like to thank you for
> alternatives already suggested. Lets’ all consider our options and agree in
> Thessaloniki.
>
> 3. I am attaching the revised, *approved budget* with an overview,
> together with the *revised Gantt chart*.
>
> 4. We will communicate the *draft agenda until 08.11*.
>
> 5. In order to facilitate the start of the project, we would like to ask
> our partners form the University of Skovde (*SKUNI*) to provide us with
> an *exact address*, so we can mail you a copy of the proposal/contract
> and you can have some time to study it prior to the kick off meeting.
>
>
>
> *D) DISSEMINATION*
>
> 1. As discussed during the teleconference, we have *already scheduled two
> dissemination events* as Atlantis. The first, is during the Carrier Day
> for Young Researchers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTH, on
> 09.11. The second, under VET Skills Week (yeah!) on 23.11. We would like to
> use these events to gather feedback for our survey.
>
> 2. Please use in all *dissemination* events the *EC logo and IKY logo* at
> all times (https://www.iky.gr/en/component/k2/item/1986-logos?Itemid=1307)
> and for events until the end of 2017, the Erasmus Plus 30 years logo.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Congratulations! You reached the end of this very long message J. We are
> looking forward to the collaboration.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ifigeneia
>
>
>
> *Ifigeneia Metaxa*
>
> *Technical Consultant*
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>
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>
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>
>
Dear partners,
I have just created a poll in Framadate called: "FOSS4SMEs 2nd
Teleconference, this time in "apper.in"".
Please fill in the poll at the link below so that we can find a date that
suits us all:
https://framadate.org/2sHmmQPvGn12Jt3T
Best,
Katerina