Talk:Weekly zine

Meeting on 1/14 : xozine and community-space discussion:

general notes

1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. xoxo (last issue Sept 2007), OLPC:Wiki News, OLPC:News,

2. wordpress/blog system • give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other. • email newsletter -- email * OTD • recommended rss feeds • phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.

3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.

4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.

5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine.

6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology... "this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?

7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? idea: categories by 'X needed'

8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.

9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.

10. ways to chat about what people work on.

: blog post when a new project gets started
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that

Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c.

Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --IainD)

11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.

12. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.

13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.

Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.

Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings.

check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan

14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.

Tasks

• find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)
• pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) NB: someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...

• schedule updates.
  • regular zine : daily notes with project highlights?
• personal info updates -- ask office folks.
• set time to talk about library dev and content connections
• regular check-in.
• give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage
• infobox updates :IanD to find

Update site?

Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).

initial demo edition

Editor : (Seth W)

Wiki summaries (Iain D)

Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )

Projects and software updates (Phil B)

Interviews & profiles (Seth W)

Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)

Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)

Translating (es) : (SJ to find)

Content and collections (SJ)

XO media (taken with/made with...)

Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)

Country and trial schools ( -- )

Support and testing ( -- )

good interview candidates

dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest 
cafl 
kate davis
neskaya
kikka  
misha 
ffm  
molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)

more

Iain D -- un-available starting friday. has time now

SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers

NOTES

2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)

Roll Call:

• Phil (Phil), Seth (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,

TOPIC AREA:

• Need better outreach to community and others

Target readers, news/items/notes

• Hardware
• Software
• Educators
• User documentation (need more flushing out)

Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)

• Wiki
• xo'Zine (editors speak up)
• RSS

Focus/Acknowledgment:

• Projects underway
• People volunteers.
• Interesting stories, personal highlights.
• Interest group overview.
• Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?

Welcoming committee, new user greeting

• new volunteer
• Devel
• project creation
• xo user groups

Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment)

• WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)
• Droople (mburns experience)
• Clone
• Blog/Blogger
• Forum/phpForum/phpBB
• another wiki ?
• Creative Commons (CC) license ?

Documentation on redirection ideas

• Ask question, redirection to proper channel
• Goto list for redirection

A Weekly magazines (by end of sunday?)

Volunteers Coordinators

• Editor: Seth
• Interview/profiles: Seth
• Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth
• Media/Press: Seth
• Wiki Summarizor: IainD,
• Software/developer: PhilB,
• Translation:
• Education/research:
• Mailing List/annoucements:

Topics:

• Media updates
• Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)
• Wiki
• Mailing lists / announcements
• Country/trial school
• personal
• Content projects
• Education/research projects

Wiki editors

• Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm

Interview:

• IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?
• Other younger users