The P2Rx administrative call on November 10, 2004 included Andy Bray (NEWMOA), John Calcagni, Gary Hunt, and Sharon Johnson (WRRC), Deb Jacobson (GLRPPR), Thomas Vinson-Peng (Zerowaste), Rick Yoder (P2RIC), Mike Vogel and Laura Estes (Peaks), Ed Gonzalez (WRPPN), Chris Wiley (PPRC), and Jean Waters (P2Rx).

Jean reviewed the new agenda for the meeting January 11-14 in Orlando.  There is an opportunity for a team building experience at the Nature Conservancy site near Orlando.  Everyone agreed that we should pursue it.  Folks will need to arrive in Orlando by 2:00 pm to make it to the site by 3:00. Committee meetings have been moved much earlier in the day on Tuesday in order to have enough time to fully discuss the user satisfaction survey, the PPIN review, and next steps, plus measurement and all other issues that need to be covered. No other changes to the agenda were made.

Mike reviewed work that has been going on with the NPPR tribal workgroup.  Peaks has created a web site covering P2 opportunities for tribes.  Content still needs to be added. On the next tribal workgroup conference call, Mike wants to provide information regarding P2Rx commitment to the tribal website.  There is a level of administration that NPPR could do, while Peaks could do the technical end.

Some content from P2Rx is already included but Laura would like to see this site participate in the P2Rx news and library networks.  John points out that he’s glad to support it with a link and through library support etc., but only two tribes in Region 4 he wouldn’t have much to do. 

Mike pointed out that last year P2Rx was trying to find opportunities for partnership with NPPR and we went to FOSTTA meetings to promote our potential work with tribes.  We could now support this tribal website, www.tribalp2.org and accomplish both things.  NPPR has chaired the workgroup and facilitated the discussion but P2Rx has built the resource. Continuing money for Peaks would be from P2Rx in lieu of another topic hub, for example, unless Mike can find another pot of money. 

Andy would be willing to do outreach in his regions.  Thomas says New Mexico would be very interested. 

Mike wants to know if P2Rx is behind the initiative, will promote it, provide content, etc.  Specifically, he wants centers to contribute news content, national library accessibility, other sharable content (as appropriate – things centers currently share) and promotion of the resource within their region (there’s flexibility here).

Rick commented that the model of how this site is built implies that P2Rx can build sites; NPPR can facilitate users who need the support of that site.  Rick doesn’t want to concede P2Rx’s ability to gather data at the regional level.  Note that this model doesn’t include a provision to pay for new data gathering or new content development.  Rick said that if we’re being asked to share existing information, that’s what we’re supposed to be doing, so he’s in favor of it.  He provided the caveat that Centers must be limited to a certain degree when it comes to web assistance to the organization that’s doing the sharing.  We have to be wary of how many new projects we add, especially if they vary from our core mission and if we don’t have any additional funding.

Jean asked if P2Rx is supportive of a continuing dialog to work some of these details out.  Are we willing to provide our sharable content, contribute news, allow accessibility and input to the national library? We’re not being asked to gather new data.  All centers, Andy, John, Deb, Thomas, Rick, Mike, Ed, and Chris voted to support this project.

Web group update – working to clean up some items associated with topic hubs and programs directory, acknowledgement pages for topic hubs, where to go for help, and cascading style sheets. Program directory updates have been lagging for a while Jean will follow up with individual centers.  Web folks need to check links and update hubs monthly. A few centers have not updated their programs directory.  Jean will contact center directors individually.

Andy spent a day at the C2P2 offices, showing them how to use topic hubs that they’re piloting. The group decided to limit access to the Topic Hub administrative forms so external partners won’t accidentally change hubs.

Improvements are being made to the programs directory to allow periodic updates of the national directory from regional directories, to allow users to edit or input info into the regional directory, to improve the search function on P2Rx, and to dynamically generate metatags for the national directory.

We're still waiting on a fix to resolve differences in Center's keyword tables.  This fix may also be used for some other tables (such as services and program type in the program directory).

Neena and Andy are working on a way for subsections of topic hubs to be displayed in whatever order the authoring center chooses, rather than the order in which the subsections are entered.

Neena sent a fix so the date is correct (according to RSS standard) on news items

Centers need to update their footers so they point to WRPPN instead of "WestP2net"

Centers need to change case on Where To Go for Help in their admin forms.

The national measurement task force is trying to figure out what kind of proposal we would put forward for measurement.  Task force will meet Dec 14-15 and will talk about it.  Chris has promised he would send out a strawman about what we can do as P2Rx centers with regard to measurement.  We have a tough sell job ahead of us if we’re really going to pursue NEIEN funding.  On the last call we discussed going out to look for state leads, did anyone do it?  Nebraska has well developed network node.  Jim Burling is Nebraska contact.  As long as we engage IT people, we might be able to move forward.  TCEQ may support a grant for measurement data.  Deb and Gary Miller talked about it; their agency will not be in a position to take the lead.  IT folks at Washington said that unstructured data scared them.  Most of the discussion centered on how the network works.  Regardless of NEIEN we can make a position about where P2Rx wants to play in measurement.  We should still look for local (regional) contact.