Explicit communication, pace and active participation.
This is a fast moving project- online engagement/social dynamics have a pace of their own and do not follow anyone’s schedule. It is like riding a wave, it’s up to you to stay on top of things. If you don’t make a convincing case, or concrete enough suggestion in a timely manner then things move on. Some general/vague requests were made from your side. A counterproposal was posted. No response: neither questions asked from your side nor a suggested alternative time/date for follow-up discussion. And then: “ it’s not our primary role, we try to raise question and issue (plan a) if nothing happens we make some extra work (plan b)” - To me it signals you want the kind of hand-holding which no one can afford.
You would not be the first person to have a hard time keeping up with the fast pace with which we get things move. It is up to each one of us to take individual responsibility for staying on top of things:
- Be proactive in building answers to your questions well in time. Rather than vanishing fo long stretches of time and then expecting everyone to scramble when you finally bother to show up.
- Participate actively in the weekly community calls/hangouts as a quick way to catch up whenever you feel "lost". Put things on the agenda, make creative proposals, etc. Or better yet, actively put in coordination work to actively convene the partners in calls etc. Instead of waiting for e.g. Alberto, Noemi or myself to do it.
- Produce the content/material/code or whatever you feel is missing yourself. Accept that it may have become irrelevant or that people no longer have time to engage with your demands if you are too slow. You have all the material you need to produce whatever it is you want if you are unhappy with what is there for any reason. If you feel you do not understand the project or how it is meant to work, please reread the actual proposal as well as the information already produced and pointed to.
Regarding your demands/questions/complaints:
- Your demand/question "that has been kindly flagged" has already been responded to: https://edgeryders.eu/en/comment/22518#comment-22518
- The engagement and outreach strategy has not changed from what was presented during the consortium meeting: Fellowship program - to be eligible you need to complete challenges and you were invited to cocreate the challenges themselves. After no engagement from you for over a month, again we invited you to get involved. Not much action there either.
- It has also been communicated on multiple occasions including during the consortium meeting, that coordination and alignment of communication and outreach happens during community calls, the contents of which are documented and posted online. The discussion about outreach and engagement strategy took place several weeks ago. You did not participate in it ( in spite of our having re-scheduled the day and time around your request). The documentation was posted online and responded to by others. Again no questions asked from you regarding outreach and communication: https://edgeryders.eu/en/opencare-research/hangout-4-planning-open-care-outreach-efforts
- Had you actually read and acted upon the documentation from the call you would have seen:
- Link to the outreach and engagement timeline: https://edgeryders.eu/en/op3ncare-community/what=
- Links to the collaboratively built challenge briefs which in turn link to documents in the "missing "folder": i.e you would have flagged the issue of the "missing folder" then and resolved within the day.