SKSI/MeetingNotes/2021-09-22 Meeting

Present: Varunesh, Dave, Wayne, Rumanusina, William,

Reviewed the OERF's consultation report, including the options for training of MESC staff...

Discussed the 'cafeteria menu' of technical skills training options. Varunesh and Nehru suggested some additional or adjusted areas of interest, e.g. how to do ongoing maintenance and potential reinstall of the services whose initial setup is covered in the tutorials.

Dave mentioned that the tutorials do aim to provide documentation on ongoing maintenance. He clarified that the idea of a 'reinstall' being used to fix issues is not normally the approach used in the Linux environment. Dave to expand list of options to cater for 3 audiences: those totally unfamiliar with Linux, those wanting to maintain SKSI web applications, and those using the SKSI apps.

Wayne then suggested a couple of "Demonstrator" initiatives to help structure professional development with clear practical outcomes. The first would be an opportunity to train a pilot group of 'ICT champions" in Samoan schools, with the goal of setting up per-school subsites.

The group discussed identifying "Champions" for the proposed pilot, Nehru said they already have ICT champions identified within the staff of each school, which should map well to this initiative.

Nehru asked Dave to provide a section to the report explaining the (dis)advantages of local (Apia-based) vs. cloud-based hosting infrastructure for these services to help MESC's management set priorities.

Wayne also described a second Demonstrator initiative, with the goal of setting up per-school subsites and establishing some templates for streamlining the process. Nehru and William were positive about selecting 5 representative schools to be involved in a pilot and allocating two MESC staff to act as liaison officials to support the process.

Rumanusina, Nehru, William, and Varunesh were very positive about the proposed Demonstrator initiatives - "things are really moving forwards!"

The meeting was recorded (video).