User group meeting & agenda 6 January 2009

= Proposing ideas for this agenda =

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= Agenda =

Administrative items

 * 1) Assignment of time keeper and note taker
 * 2) Introduction of new members: 10 seconds for name and desired takeaways.
 * 3) Prayer --
 * 4) Review of Minutes
 * 5) Today's agenda preview

Information items

 * Backlog on agenda items due to the holidays (Michael)

New Items

 * Making this meeting virtual-only next week (Michael)
 * Feedback (David Crowther)
 * The Maryland barn raising: Status of FHL writers. The Maryland Barn Raising Tasks page and what tasks need to be added. Efforts to get more writers (BYU interns and missionaries). A call for writers to sign up. (Michael)

Carryover from Previous Meetings

 * Report regarding ISBN feature on the wiki and possibility of adding ISBN search to FHLC. (read: buggy conflict between ISBN feature and FCK editor) (Michael Ritchey)
 * Also see the discussion page for the meeting held 30 December 2008, there are some items there that have merit time permitting. Also along that line, see http://www.paperofrecord.com/ (also see this meeting's discussion page).

= Minutes =

Facilitator was Michael Ritchey, Note taker was [Add name here], Time keeper was [Add name here].

Prayer by

This week, there are now 6,088 registered users of the FamilySearch Wiki. That is an increase of [#] new registered users over the last week.

Attendees :
Michael Ritchey, David Samulesen, Sister Felsted (Interpretor for David S.), James Anderson, David Crowther, Baerbel Johnson, Fran Jensen, Jim Greene, Kip Enger

Remote Attendees
Anne Roach, Mollie Forbes, Jimmy Parker, Sister Edwards, Thomas Lerman

(Anne Roach), (David Crowther), (Michael Ritchey), Jimmy Parker, Thomas Lerman, (Mollie Forbes), Sister Edwards