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* [[User:dsutera|Dan Sutera]], NYU
* [[User:dsutera|Dan Sutera]], NYU
** dansutera at yahoo.com
** dansutera at yahoo.com
** General / Grant / UI
** General / Grant / UI (Contact Person)
* [[User:ThePerturbator|Rajesh Ramakrishnan]], Columbia
* [[User:ThePerturbator|Rajesh Ramakrishnan]], Columbia
** rr2318 at columbia.edu
** rr2318 at columbia.edu

Revision as of 14:29, 6 October 2007

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Description & Goals

Sample XOTimes.org Report

The Report activity is designed for students to learn and actively participate in journalism.

The activity provides:

  1. A tutorial for outlining a news article
  2. A free writing mode
  3. The ability to include a photograph (later video)
  4. The ability to publish to an online blog (xotimes.org)

It is our goal that the software will be included as a core activity.

The larger goal is to provide children a voice in world events.


Visual Design

Source Files

Document Description
Activity Mockup (400KB) history Zip file containing Adobe Fireworks mockups


Screenshots

Plan Tab
Write Tab
Publish Tab


Development

Status

- This works for build 595
- The wordpress module is =in the ./wordpress directory and needs to be setup through ./wordpress/setup.py install
- The install script works as per expectation: ./setup.py dev
- The blog feature works to some extent, but it currently only grabs the text 
  [The AbiWord module needs to be modified to somehow spit out data in a better format]
- No implementation work has been done on the plan tab.
- The username and password to the blog have been hardcoded to post to http://olpcjam.wordpress.com
- There may be a beginner and advanced mode on the plan tab (TBD)
- The launch date for v1.0 is November 30, 2007

Source Code

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~sjklein/Report.tar


Tutorial

Journalists are currently working on the tutorial content of the activity.
The content will be completed October 10, 2007.

Document Description
Current Tutorial (8KB) history RTF Tutorial on writing a news article


XOTimes.org

We intend to create a blog/news web site where the news articles will be published (a la CNN or Digg).

The site is up at http://www.xotimes.org, however it is currently hardcoded to a single blog.

Hopefully some of the more popular articles will get picked up by the mainstream press.

Some features we would like to have:

  • Private Group Blogs
  • Digging (voting) best articles
  • RSS
  • Podcasting


Grant

We are in the process of applying for a grant with the Knight Foundation.

More information can be found at http://www.newschallenge.org.

The deadline is October 15th.


Team

Active

  • Dan Sutera, NYU
    • dansutera at yahoo.com
    • General / Grant / UI (Contact Person)
  • Rajesh Ramakrishnan, Columbia
    • rr2318 at columbia.edu
    • Development
  • Dan Lee, Columbia
    • dtl2103 at columbia.edu
    • Development
  • Emmanuelle Collet, Journalist
    • emmanuelle.collet at gmail.com
    • Tutorial / Grant

Resources

  • SJ Klein, OLPC
  • Lauren Klein, OLPC
  • Brendan Ballou, Colombia
  • Lisa Williams
    • lisa at cadence90.com
    • Grant
  • Nick Racuente, Swarthmore
    • Coding
  • James Levy, Northwestern
    • Journalism
  • IRC Chat
    • irc.freenode.net at #fcolpc


Schedule

October 10:

  • Mockups Completed
  • Content Finalized
  • Gauge Interest in Group

October 15:

  • Knight Foundation application

November 30:

  • Functioning Report v1.0
  • Functioning Website v1.0


History

More background on this project can be found at:

Journalism Jam New York/Results