Priorities…
The process you point to seems reasonable to me. If it is true that people benefit from feedback, getting feedback from the ER community would also have been useful. 4 weeks is more than enough to do that. Also, there is no extra cost, because students need anyway to write what they want to do, why etc. But that is your call, really. You are welcome to run your engagement process as you see fit, and if you cannot make it work with ER, use something else. Costantino and I agreed this in Stockholm. As long as you produce ethno data in acceptable quantity and quality, you are delivering. See this comment below for more details.
As for your questions:
- do we agree and acknowledge that sharing a story, the way it is done now, helps with some idea development and is bound to an organic time frame? Yes. Although I don't understand the "organic time frame" part. Conversation tends to be ongoing: this thread started by @Pauline during the UDK course in May is still active, though the course is long over.
- do we think we need to define different engagement model that does a different job from the current possible catalyst one? My answer depends on what you would consider to be the current model.
- If the current model is the Edgeryders one, no. It's working quite well for us. People engage. We get the data. Amelia codes them. Guy aggregates everything. The results make sense. We just need more of them (perhaps twice the volume) to make for great results.
- If the current model is the one WeMake uses ofline or in contexts different from edgeryders.eu, I don't know. I have not seen what comes out of your process. Standards of data quality in opencare have been encoded in the Data Management Plan back in June and in Amelia's comments to this thread.
- If the current model is what I am seeing on edgeryders.eu (posts by Wave, no reply to comments), then yes, we need a different engagement model. I think this is not generating enough data and of enough quality to justify the grant.