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== Recruitment ==
== Recruitment ==


=== high school students ===
===Developers===
* I've informally talked with a number of student developers at Columbia who say that they're interested. We're having our first official FC club meeting of the year this Wednesday, so I should have a better grip of how many people can contribute their time then
* Lauren has the connection with Columbia prep, let's see how that comes out
* I am also trying to reach out to Columbia's media lab. their main guy is on vacation this week, but I'm going to try to set up a meeting with him. It'd be great if we could get some developers from over there to contribute time
* Brendan: I would like to get students from the neighborhood who might not get a lot of opportunities like this. Obviously we don't want to have discipline issues, but Stuyvesant kids get to do plenty of cool stuff all the time (after all, their school was wikipedia's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School | Featured Article]]
* Dan made the excellent point that we really need to get the developers thinking about this project before the actual weekend. I'm going to suggest next Monday, September 10th as a time to get together. I'll send out a more official email then


=== Coders ===
===Students===
* Lauren's connection at columbia prep is asking her students whether or not they want to be involved in this project. It sounds like the kids are pretty enthusiastic, and once the school year begins we should have a better handle on just how many kids are going to sign up.
* Columbia's Free Culture chapter is coder-heavy. that seems like a reliable source
* Another good suggestion from Dan: on the Sunday when the kids come in, we need something for them to focus their reporting on. is there an event in the city or at columbia that high school students might want to report on? or is this something where they should bring their own reports / research and just plug into the software the day of?


=== journalists ===
===Famous people etc...===
* I think it would be a boost to the developers is some cool people or people from cool companies dropped by to say hi. Lauren, how did your connections at Google work out? Is there any interest in having someone pop in and say hi? Do people have any other connections that might be worthwhile? Eben Moglen might be good
* Brendan: I have emailed the editors of the main Columbia newspaper and magazine to ask them to 'co-sponsor' this event, providing student journalists to guide high school students and to write content
* Lauren has also emailed a contact at the J-school. it'd be great if we can expand this beyond an undergraduate project


== Logistics ==
===Journalists===
* this is another part of the project that we need to be moving on fast. we need a couple of professional journalists to actually help write the content of the program. do people have journalist contacts, people who might be interested in devoting a saturday afternoon to writing this in a group?


===Administrative stuff===
* for now the date is September 21st - 23rd
* I think we have a room lined up in one of the Columbia dorms. it's not pretty, but it's cozier than a classroom and will be a good workstation for the developers
* Fred said that there might be room at NYU to host the event. I will also start looking around Columbia
* we need food for the people involved in the project. any thoughts about where we might get free bagels, sandwiches, coffee etc?


== Software ==
== Software ==

Revision as of 02:59, 4 September 2007

Participants

  • 20 journalists
    • help w/ tool design, and mentor/shadow kid
  • 5 artists/graphics/layout people
    • for tools, templates, layout, managing printing)
    • in the artists category, it would also be nice to have someone with a video camera
  • 5 coders
    • to make / find / modify / upkeep software tools*
    • CMS/publishing software/journalism/open source experience
  • 5 educators
    • to... uh... help with everything, but probably also to lead the documentation-howto effort at the end
  • Kids
    • 2 layout, 2 photo, 1 video, 15 reporters
    • equal number of j-school kids
  • 5 organizers – 1 full time, 4 volunteers

Recruitment

Developers

  • I've informally talked with a number of student developers at Columbia who say that they're interested. We're having our first official FC club meeting of the year this Wednesday, so I should have a better grip of how many people can contribute their time then
  • I am also trying to reach out to Columbia's media lab. their main guy is on vacation this week, but I'm going to try to set up a meeting with him. It'd be great if we could get some developers from over there to contribute time
  • Dan made the excellent point that we really need to get the developers thinking about this project before the actual weekend. I'm going to suggest next Monday, September 10th as a time to get together. I'll send out a more official email then

Students

  • Lauren's connection at columbia prep is asking her students whether or not they want to be involved in this project. It sounds like the kids are pretty enthusiastic, and once the school year begins we should have a better handle on just how many kids are going to sign up.
  • Another good suggestion from Dan: on the Sunday when the kids come in, we need something for them to focus their reporting on. is there an event in the city or at columbia that high school students might want to report on? or is this something where they should bring their own reports / research and just plug into the software the day of?

Famous people etc...

  • I think it would be a boost to the developers is some cool people or people from cool companies dropped by to say hi. Lauren, how did your connections at Google work out? Is there any interest in having someone pop in and say hi? Do people have any other connections that might be worthwhile? Eben Moglen might be good

Journalists

  • this is another part of the project that we need to be moving on fast. we need a couple of professional journalists to actually help write the content of the program. do people have journalist contacts, people who might be interested in devoting a saturday afternoon to writing this in a group?

Administrative stuff

  • I think we have a room lined up in one of the Columbia dorms. it's not pretty, but it's cozier than a classroom and will be a good workstation for the developers
  • we need food for the people involved in the project. any thoughts about where we might get free bagels, sandwiches, coffee etc?

Software

Let's start brainstorming what tools student journalists need to make papers and get their voices online

ideas:

  • an easy layout tool. students submit several articles, rate their importance, and the software will arrange the articles on a page
  • blogging tools?
  • this is something where it might be good to ask our old high school journalism teachers (if our schools had them) what they would have like to have had
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