Introductions

2009 Nov 05 15:35 NZDT

Hello, and welcome to all who have joined this group,

Of the 26 people currently here,
   http://dataversity.org.nz/groups/dataversity_public_discuss/members
only 18 are core members of Dataversity, so we this is already a group
where inter-sectoral conversations can take place.

If you are a core member of Dataversity, then you have probably already
posted an introduction to the Dataversity Private Discussion group. That
will be visible to the other core members of the group, but not to
everyone in this group. You are welcome to post a separate intro to this
group, but as an alternative I suggest that you visit your bio
(accessible from your profile) and make sure that is up to date.
Profiles are visible to members of this public group who are logged in
to the site.

If you are not a member of the private Dataversity group, and would like
to participate in conversations here, please begin by making a post to
this "topic", introducing yourself. You can do that by logging in to the
website, and then visiting this topic (there's a link to it at the
bottom of the email version of this post). Or you can simply reply to
the email version of this post, leaving the subject line unchanged.

Here is an intro from me, for the purposes of this group. I am Projects
Director of OnlineGroups.Net, a company that provides online
collaboration tools and services. We build the collaboration server
GroupServer
   http://groupserver.org
that underpins the Dataversity site, as well as our service at
OnlineGroups.Net
   http://onlinegroups.net
where you can start a site and online groups of your own. Our service
underpins many other sites, including an online groups site for Landcare
Research,
   http://tiakimatauranga.onlinegroups.co.nz/
and the LG OnlineGroups site
   http://groups.localgovt.co.nz/
that we provide for Local Government Online Ltd. We are working with
LGOL on the Dataversity project.

My role here is Facilitator. If this project leads to sustainable
ongoing conversations that lead to better coordination of efforts around
biodata management in local government, I will have done my job.

I would be happy to answer any questions that you have about this group,
or other aspects of Dataversity.