About the project
Dear Marcin, @ Lluís Vinent and Nico , Dear Alexandre , Dear Marek and Bartosz , This is the official 'Assemblée générale' of the 26/11/2022 starting at 15pm.
Alexandre is osteopath, uses Blender and Unreal Engine but does not have much time.
Marek and Bartosz Barlowski (father and son) contacted me because they like the project and they want to support it and to get involved; we have had a short informal visio as first contact and it appears that: -They own the domain 'Anatomia.pl' and would like to use it to promote the atlas (it could be the occasion to have a more medical professionals-oriented design). It is obviously their right, but
1:Do you think that it is better to build another website (keeping a close collaboration with ours) or do you think that it is a waste of energy/dispersion? I personally think that the domain is beautiful, that it will split the traffic which is bad; it would give them much agility to make their changes without having to ask, which is much more comfortable for them; creating a website is fun but it also takes much time to get it right; especially if there are several languages and a mobile+ a PC version.
-Bartosz is interested in exploring the possibilities in Unreal Engine and Marek to share videos using the atlas on linkedin, here again; the app made by Lluis in Unity is already super advanced and the idea to convert it into a web viewer is clear, but Bartosz also considers using another tool -a kind of advanced sketchfab equivalent- to share reviewed parts of the model on their website. Here again it is obviously their right but it can be good to hear the pros and cons:
2:What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this other tool? In my opinion, it is good as long as there is no web viewer, but I see only advantages to the use of the app made by Lluis if a web viewer is produced.
-They are keen to join the association (see status in attachment),
3-Do you accept them to integrate the association as members? I have seen that they are in the same spirit and -for me- they are very welcome to take initiatives and responsibilities as the project has many needs and few resources. -Lluis now has the administrator status to share posts on the linkedin page and a canal only for the app on the Discord page. The Youtube/Instagram/Facebook/Tiktok pages are available to anyone who wants to promote the atlas on it. 4: Does anyone want to use them?
5: Does Marek/Bartosz want to use these accounts? The posts on Linkedin could be posted on the 'Z-Anatomy' page and then the link pasted in our personal pages (that's what I missed on the last one so that the likes do not sum up); the same should be possible with facebook etc.. This would provide freedom and visibility to the creator while driving attention both to its own page and to the one of the project.
-It is the occasion to speak about the membership:
Inviting and officializing the membership of sympathisers, followers and contributors would help them to feel being part of something, open possibilities about the decision-making (online votes), and open possibilities to try and become an association 'of public utility'/'of general interest'. We would need to ask name, first name, and a signature+ a symbolic 1 euro (I think) and to add the invitation on the website, through a post on the social medias and then in the invitations and all the new contacts that we create.
Besides the membership, the process of promoting the contributor could improve much the motivation to participate: 7: What rewarding system or recognition could we offer to make the people want to contribute? 8: Do you want to create a vote on something? I would on the automatic translations and the local hosting of the descriptions. What matters much to me is to involve other people than Lluis and me in the decision-making. Users and contributors with their own real needs .
Many sites use badges on their forum, I made some but our forum is quite dead. I think that a special post on the social media featuring the contributor and his contribution should do; I think that it could be good to keep a coherence of tone and visual construction of the posts (see posts). 9: What do you think of it? -The youtube channel will be only dedicated to 'Z-Anatomy'; it is unfortunately linked to my personal email (kervyngauthier@gmail.com), Would we concentrate the posts on this channel? I can compromise to give the address to the association but I still use it regularly so that I would not give all the access to everybody at first. Creating another one would mean losing the >8k views which give some credibility. 10: Where would you like to post your the videos? -The youtube channel has a playlist where I'd like to gather the videos about the open source thema; please let me know if you have good youtube links (only the ones that you really like). I did not improve the .blend since a moment and may have less time if I get a job. I feel that the best I can do for the moment is to try and help welcoming new actors -as Marek and Bartosz- and provide a coordination service to allow all the information to circulate well -as this email tries to do. I am also very open to leave these tasks of coordination to somebody else if anyone feels like so. There are already a bunch of people that I want to invite and that I hesitated to add as recipients of this email.
11: Does any of you want to do it? My only demand about it would then be to communicate quickly and openly, and try to reach a nice democratic efficient system.
For all the further communication, I propose to give much priority to the forum ; It seems the best way to speak publicly about public matters while Linkedin/Discord/... may be more suited to quick tchat and collaboration (we have used Linkedin with Lluis but I think that he prefers Discord)
11: Do you agree with using the forum for further communication? I'll paste this message in a post to allow you to answer inside it if you are ok with it.
Who knows if some day somebody finds a way to create an error-reporting system that could be used directly from the app/webviewer but until then, the list that can be pasted in a post of the forum is very clean and handy to communicate and update a to-do list as the one that has been used for the app . If some contributors of 3D modelers appear, there could be the same for 3D content edition.
-I wonder if the letter sent by Lluis with his signature to create the bank account of the organization has not been lost on the way but, when it will be done, I propose to add a button for donation through 'Librapay', and to decide with the members how to spend it (we already have a list of wishes) 12: If it does not arrive; can I fake your signature manually with your benediction or do you prefer to send it again (there is no hurry)? 13: Do you want to propose other income strategy?
Hugs,
Gauthier
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