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Meeting July 20, 2012

===Meeting July 20 2012, 7pm EST===
==Draft design==
 
Please provide feedback on the draft design via email, by Monday July 30th. 
*Lose facet map with interactive features
*This version is barely customized alternate design to the design presented at http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Development/July2012. For the site, it would be drastically simplified.
*Lost generic Wikipedia appearance
==Calendar==
Visitors end up at Calendar most often, however not utilized.
*Keep calendar or redirect traffic and delete?
==Asian Canadian Wikipedia lists== 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_people_of_Asian_descent. 
*David - possible to import this information into the AC wiki, which may add approx. 700 additional names. David will produce an Excel doc. 
*Elena will skim these names; add the information; art and location; info box; add into the map; column for if it is already in the wiki. 
*David mentioned it is feasibile to produce the Excel by mid-August, with Elena working on it to end of August.
==Citations==
David: equal sign in the front template http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Ginger_Post. David will determine the cause and repair.
==Youtube links== 
http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Main_Page. Elena to add this to "Contribute" page.
==Soft launch==
E-mail soft launch on August 27th.
==Bliki== 
Still the responsibilty of Elena. 
==Google Analytics==
Set up google analytics plan on google with Janet - Elena
==Infobox== 
Create an infobox template similar to Wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worf - Comments?
==Categories== 
To increase intra-site traffic (I just made up that term).
Should we have detailed categories?
Next meeting: Monday July 30th 7:00pm EST on skype.
Meeting June 23, 2012

==Target==
400 additions by the end of August
==Conduct of research==
Adrienne and Heeseung: Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes (& territories)
Elena: B.C. Alta., Sask. and Manitoba (& territories) 
==Tracking==
Renee, Janet and Natalie have already done a lot in terms of adding Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal-based people/orgs. Renee, Natalie and Janet, let us know what is realistic in terms of how to proceed with the names that have been recently added to the Word googledoc (whether you plan to add the names on your lists, or whether anyone can add these names to the wiki).
for the reseachers: The googledoc (whether the Word or the Excel format is chosen), will help us keep email addresses for the dissemination/launch in September, which Janet mentioned below.
==Soft Launch==
online soft launch (as was mentioned in the May 2010 minutes http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Meeting_May_29,_2010)? 
*Let us know if you have any concrete ideas for a way to promote the wiki that you'd like to develop. I'm thinking that this soft launch would likely be in the form of a message to the contacts Janet has emailed so far, asking them to forward the wiki as much as they can to their contacts. They don't have to get back to us, but simply forward what we're doing and the goals of the wiki! 
==Comments==
As always, to add comments about the design, please put them on the wiki directly: http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Development/June2012 We really want to ensure the wiki is as accessible as possible. There have been some people coming back to us asking for further instructions on how to add info.
==Blog==
I'm all for the Bliki idea. As David mentioned below, it will allow for a better mixing of the content.
Meeting June 8, 2012

== Design ==
#Designs Awaiting feedback on designs
#Replace event box with info box
#Remove calendar
#Add an About section 
#More stylized and modern Main Page. Maybe smaller pictures that enlarge when you run your mouse over them. 
#Dead space in between the homepage and the full body text
#Add Canada Council of the Arts logo to sidebar or bottom of Main Page
== Usability ==
== Content ==
Define Mandate
*What differentiates ACW from Wikipedia
*Why ACW is helpful to the average user etc.
#;Is there a way to edit titles of pages?:Can “move” pages to a different title.
#;How to delete pages?:Need administrator privilege.
#;VJ Pillow – his link does not work anymore: Follow up with Rob?
#;Uploading photos: picture uploads, but the page goes blank and I have to “go back” and then retype the jpeg name. 
#;Simultaneous Update:Again, I’m not sure of the feasibility of this. Since much of our content comes from Wikipedia, to me it makes sense that as information is updated in Wikipedia, it should also update on the Asian Canadian Wikipedia. 
#;Some pictures don’t show up on the main page
#;How to make sure that the Asian-Canadian wikipedia lists have a presence. 
Search function
#;search for certain pages does not work (ie: Adrienne Vicente)
#;Ryoko Itabashi? Has page, but does not show up in search for “Ryoko”
#;More sensitive search engine?:Ie: recognize similar words? (ie: if search "Tetsury", response could suggest "Tetsuro"?)
#;Groups page:http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Groups. Will this be utilized?
Organizing content
#;How standardized do we want this wiki to be?: In terms of Aspects, which ones do we use?
Facet Map
#;Facet Map: links working?I go to Facet Map, then click “Montréal”. Sinha Danse link goes to (image) a page that says “There is currently no text for this page”
== Server==
*Facet map: if lags site, discard.
== Process ==
== Support ==
*Need "Contact Us" page?
*What email address to use?
== Outreach ==
*Soft Launch date: Monday, August 27th 2012
*Hard Launch date: Monday, September 27th 2012
Meeting May 23, 2012

====Meeting Minutes====
Please find below a summary of Thursday's meeting, May 23, 2013.
Attendance: Robert, Adrienne, David, Elena
1) Outreach
- Attendees discussed important outreach venues (such as the Asian Canadian conference in Victoria) and how ACW could tap into these networks in the future (nobody from ACW will be going to the conference).
2) Website review
- Attendees reviewed website and discussed minor changes that needed to be made with David (who attended to them right away). 
3) Visioning Session in Montreal
- It became apparent throughout the meeting that an in-person meeting for ACW would be extremely useful as a visioning session regarding the following questions:
What next for ACW in terms of content? What do we want to be? How do we get there?
We need an outreach strategy, we should meet to discuss what this would look like.
Are there any outstanding concerns with the wiki that we want to address (rather than individual feedback to David, we should all come together, find out what we all collectively want from the site and go in with a single unified ask.
While it might be possible to do this visioning session via Skype, doing it in person would guarantee attendance, allow for dim sum, and really allow us to hash out next steps for the project. It was initially suggested that we meet in July in Montreal for the visioning session. This would allow each of us to reflect on the above questions and have an idea of where they see the website going.
Meeting May 29, 2010

= Goals =
= Design =
* Temporary logo?
= Views =
* About the site
* Featured item
* Calendar of events with RSS feed
* List of categories
* Historical / narrative overviews - context
** when arrived, generation, where
** "community around Toronto in 1980s"
*** Todo::Janet find people with a historical/academic context
== Reusable content ==
* David: Forms 
** end user input?
** can anyone edit any page or editorial control?
== Languages ==
* Can customize navigation language, todo::David add per language tag extension
= Involvement =
== Editors ==
== Social media ==
Easiest to use Mediawiki Widgets which includes slide show, video, etc widgets that are served from third party sites (Google, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, etc). However it is best where possible to use the wiki itself for content (for example, calendar events) so that it can be reused within the site.
= Timelines =
* June 28th - Wiki announced, soft launch
* August 30 - September, full launch
* Social media - July 19 with activity
Category:Development meetings
Meeting September 17, 2012

== Agenda ==
#Design
#Soft Launch
#Hard Launch
#Importing AC Lists
==Design==
:#Front page – rough version for September 27
==Soft Launch==
*Small group test - everyone to send out personalized messages for their contacts to send comments by next Sunday September 23rd
==Hard Launch==
*Tuesday October 9th
==Check-in with Researchers==
*Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). Elena to contact - No responses yet
*Banner for recruiting volunteers for translation - No responses from translators
*Articles - Rob will write one, Elena will write one
*Elena will write press release/translation emailed out today for review
*short article for women's suffrage website
*addition of 400 new entries by end of November
==Importing AC lists==
*Elena uploaded list to Googledocs. Just add names in appropriate column. 
Next meeting: Monday September 24 6pm EST
Meeting September 24, 2012

== Agenda ==
#Design
#Soft Launch
#Hard Launch
#Importing AC Lists
==Design==
:#Front page – rough version for September 27
:#Walk-through with Khosro (Sept 24), Walk-through with Elena (Sept 29)
==Soft Launch==
*Small group test - little response
==Hard Launch==
*Tuesday October 9th
==Check-in with Researchers==
*Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). -minimal response
*Banner for recruiting volunteers for translation - No responses from translators
*Articles - Rob will write one, Elena will write one
*Press release - in translation with FAA
*short article for women's suffrage website
*addition of 400 new entries by end of November
==Importing AC lists==
*David will do this for next meeting
*People can still add to the Googledoc list
Next meeting: Monday October 1 6pm EST
Meeting September 3, 2012

=Meeting Minutes September 3 2012=
== Agenda ==
#Design
#Check-in with researchers
#Importing AC Lists
#Soft Launch
==Design==
:*Design 1 - approved
:*Design 1 - soft launch Wednesday September 6th
:#Front page – rough version for September 27
:#Background image - stay with white for now
==Check-in with Researchers==
*Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). Elena to contact - David to look into adding languages
*Banner for recruiting volunteers for translation - David- Yes
*Articles - Rob will write one, Elena will write one
*Elena will write press release/translation into French for September 10th
*addition of 400 new entries by end of November
==Importing AC lists==
*David has Elena's list
*Elena to upload list into Googledocs
==Soft Launch==
*Small group test - send-out Wednesday September 6th
Next meeting: Monday September 17 6pm EST
Melinda Shankar/fr

Melinda Shankar (18 février 1992, Ottawa, Canada Fiche sur Melinda Shankar, sur angiesmodels.com (consulté le 21 mars 2011)) est une actrice indo-canadienne. Elle a joué dans les saisons 8 et 9 de la série Degrassi : La Nouvelle Génération. Mais on a pu aussi la voir dans le film Harriet l'espionne Melinda Shankar (photo).
Sa famille est originaire du Guyana, où Melinda Shankar est retournée en 2010 pour tourner un nouveau film, Festival of Lights Melinda Shankar returns to Guyanese roots to film new movie, sur stabroeknews.com (consulté le 21 mars 2011).
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company

For over 30 years, the Menaka Thakkar Dance Company has been a unique treasure in Canada’s dance world. Canada’s oldest Indian dance company exposes audiences to the stunning beauty of traditional Indian dance, while remaining open to other dance cultures in the creation of new works. The company uses the language of many dance styles to re-interpret ancient themes and introduce contemporary concepts. The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company and its Artistic Director, Menaka Thakkar, have earned a reputation for artistic excellence, presenting works that are visually spectacular and infused with drama.
The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company’s repertoire includes traditional and contemporary works in Bharatanatyam and Odissi, two of seven styles of classical dance in India. As an innovator in the presentation of Indian dance, Menaka Thakkar has also choreographed a number of exciting new works often fusing Indian dance styles with contemporary dance styles from other cultures.
In addition to presenting new works in its Toronto home season, the Company frequently tours across Canada and internationally. In fact, this is the first professional Canadian company of Indian Dance to tour extensively in India, where it has been met enthusiastically in Madras, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bombay. It maintains a program of school residencies through the year and often invites guest dancers and choreographers from other companies from Canada, India, England, and the U.K.
The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company is the first professional Indian dance company in Canada to be recognized as part of Canada’s mainstream professional dance companies by the Canada Council which provides annual operating support.
Metachroma

==Mandate==
Metachroma Theatre addresses the under-representation of visible minority actors in Canadian Theatre, challenging current perceptions by telling stories with a diverse cast in order to normalize the presence of these artists on stage.
==Our History==
In 2010, Montreal-based actors Tamara Brown, Lucinda Davis, Mike Payette, and Warona Setshwaelo came together to discuss the nature of hiring practices in Canadian theatre in relation to artists of colour. As performers who have had the opportunity to engage with companies all over the province and the country, the shocking realization came that there is little to no opportunity for more than one or two actors of colour to share the stage at the same time. This knowledge raised the instigating question, “Wherein lies the opportunity for many actors of colour to be allowed to perform in mainstream theatre without the guise of adaptation?”
We came to the conclusion that nothing would be done without us initiating the change.
Metachroma was officially formed in the latter part of 2010 when additional company members Quincy Armorer, Glenda Braganza, Julie Tamiko Manning, and Jamie Robinson joined the team.
Mi-Jung Lee

Mi-Jung Lee is a Korean Canadian television personality, based in Vancouver. She most recently served as co-host of the Western Canada edition of the breakfast television program Canada AM, until its cancellation in June 2008. Earlier in her career, she was a news anchor for CHEK-TV in Victoria. She is currently an anchor at CTV British Columbia as the 11:30 weeknight anchor.
Lee has appeared as a reporter or news anchor in several TV shows and films including Snakes on a Plane, X-Men: The Last Stand, Tron: Legacy, Hot Rod and Watchmen.
Michael Bhardwaj

Michael is the host of In Town and Out, on CBC Radio One, 91.5 FM from 6 to 9 a.m. Michael began his career with the CBC five years ago. Since then, he’s contributed to local and national shows, including Ottawa Morning, The Current and Definitely Not the Opera. Today, Michael is happy to call In Town and Out his home. Every Saturday morning, he brings you a mix of local events and music to start the weekend on the right note. Whether he’s talking to a pre-teen poised to take the stage with her Doodlebop Icons or pitting mom-against-mom in an all out cultural cookoff, Michael uncovers the flavours, the characters and the hot-ticket events that make Ottawa a vibrant and colourful community.
Michael Chan

Michael Chan (Chinese: 陳國治) is a Canadian politician. He is the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the Ontario provincial riding of Markham-Unionville and Minister of Tourism and Culture in the provincial Liberal government headed by Dalton McGuinty. Previously, Chan was Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
Chan was president of the federal Liberal Party of Canada riding association in Markham held by MP John McCallum. Chan was elected in a February 8, 2007 by-election, necessitated by the resignation of former Liberal MPP Tony Wong, who left his seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to successfully run for York Regional Council in 2006. He was appointed to provincial cabinet as Minister of Revenue by Premier Dalton McGuinty on February 21, 2007,[1] a portfolio that has not been used since the NDP government of Bob Rae since 1993.
Michael John Hamdani

A Pakistani Canadian document-forger and immigrant-smuggler, Michael John Hamdani (also Amarjit Singh Sangha, Azam Shah, Ranjit Singh, Ahmad Malik) rose to notoriety after he entered a plea bargain with authorities, and triggered a manhunt for five fictitious Middle Eastern terrorists he invented.Malkin, Michelle, The Report, "Despite the (Michael John) Hamdami hoax, Canada still exports terrorists to America.", February 3, 2003 Authorities were later chastised for crying wolf, and frightening the public with a terrorism alert from the information they had.Marcus, Ruth & Dan Eggen. Washington Post, "Wanted: 5 Men -- The Terror Alert That Wasn't", January 8, 2003
Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.
Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1943 and moved to England in 1954. He attended Dulwich College. After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. He studied for a time at Bishop's College School and Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, but moved to Toronto, where he received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He then began teaching at the University of Western Ontario in London. In 1970, he settled in Toronto and, from 1971 to 1990, taught English literature at York University and Glendon College.
Ondaatje's work includes fiction, autobiography, poetry and film. He has published 13 books of poetry, and won the Governor General's Award for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970) and There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1973-1978 (1979). Anil's Ghost was the winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix Médicis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada's Governor General's Award. The English Patient won the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Governor General's Award and was later made into a motion picture, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In the Skin of a Lion, a fictional story about early immigrant settlers in Toronto, was the winner of the 1988 City of Toronto Book Award, finalist for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for best novel of the year in English, and winner of the first Canada Reads competition in 2002. Coming Through Slaughter, is a fictional story of New Orleans, Louisiana circa 1900 loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and photographer E. J. Bellocq. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. Divisadero won the 2007 Governor General's Award. Running in the Family (1982) is a semi-fictional memoir of his Sri Lankan childhood.
Michelle Kuen Suet Fung

Michelle Kuen Suet FUNG 馮捲雪 sees herself belong to a generation of young Westernized Hong Kong artists who work in the Pop Surrealist genre. Fung draws on references from popular subcultures such as fairy tales, children’s picture books and the Otaku (a Japanese term that refers to socially awkward introverts obsessed with the fantasy world of Anime and Manga.) Like many Otakus, the artist has a deep bond with her childhood memories.
 
At the beginning of her life, the artist’s parents thought the little girl would grow up to be an actor. When the toddler began her mural projects in the living room, a suspicion began to bud—this little person may have a different calling. Indeed, Fung has never ceased to make art since then.
Currently, Fung continues to work on her well-loved Into the Woods ink and colour pencil drawings where the trees—roots and branches and all—float in a void space much like the way jellyfish drift in the ocean. This popular series has been made into T-shirts due to overwhelming requests after the artist’s studio grand opening in November 2011.
She has recently finished a body of 26 oil and ink paintings on wood I Don’t Know if You Know How Much I Love You where she flirts with the primal obsessions signified by the various animal motifs in the image (lizard in L for Loss, octopus in O for On My Own…) and the romantic sensitivity represented by the delicate-looking young girls in the context of an “English alphabet picture book” which may not be so suitable for children. The entire body of works is scheduled to be exhibited in Beijing in early 2012.
The artist’s upcoming exhibition includes Art Edition in Seoul, Korea and group Christmas exhibition at hi art store in Beijing, China, and recent exhibitions includes Asia Top Gallery Hotel Air Fair at Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong, 2010 and By Land, Sea and Air at Compound Gallery in Portland, Oregon, USA, 2010. The artist’s practice has been featured in the media numerous times. Her works are in international private collections, and The Canada Council Art Bank.
Michelle Li

== Michelle Li ==
Michelle Li (born November 3, 1991) is a Canadian female badminton player from Markham, Ontario.[1] She graduated from Richmond Hill High School. Li is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. She has won gold in both singles and doubles at the Pan American Games, and won the singles and team event titles from the Pan Am Badminton Championships. As a competitor for Ontario, Li also won singles, doubles, and mixed team titles at the 2011 Canada Winter Games.
This article is based on wikipedia.org.
Mig Macario

Born in the Philippines and named after the Filipino revolutionary, general and actor Macario Sakay; Mig is the youngest of 6 children and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. Mig Macario is known for his ability to play a diverse range of characters with seemingly effortless ease.
Mig Macario is a Filipino-Canadian actor. He plays the iconic role of Bashful of the 7 dwarfs on the hit ABC series Once Upon A Time, the role of George Amahit on the comedy TV series Less Than Kind and has recurring roles on Sanctuary & The Troop.
Miki Nishida

Miki Nishida is a Montreal based choreographer, performer, costume designer and videographer. She started dancing in religious summer dance circles in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the Japan Health & Sports Academy in Kyoto, she worked for local dance company Hamaguchi Contemporary Dance as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. To complete her choreographic training, Miki attended the Concordia University Dance Program graduating in 2002.
Miki started dancing in religious summer dance circles in Osaka, Japan. Since then her passion for dance has grown. After graduating from the Japan Health & Sports Academy in Kyoto, she worked for local dance company Hamaguchi Contemporary Dance as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. Miki came to Canada in 1996. Since her arrival here she has worked with Robin Poitras (New Dance Horizons) and Michael Toppings in Regina, Saskatchewan. To complete her choreographic training Miki attended the Concordia University Dance Program graduating in 2002. Specializing in multimedia performances in university, Miki created several dance and video pieces including Portrait (2001), A Coyote Story (2001) and End of Sequence (2002) will be shown 14th Quinzena de Dança de Almada-Contemporary Dance Festival in November.
= External Links =
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