Story Jam New York

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UNICEF-OLPC Story Jam New York UNICEF New York, Manhattan

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In A Nutshell

What: Story Jam New York

Where:<br\> UNICEF New York<br\> Danny Kaye Conference Center<br\> 3 United Nations Plaza<br\> New York, NY, USA

When:<br\> March 28-30, 2008 (Fri-Sun)<br\> Hacking: Friday 6pm-10pm, Saturday 10am-10pm, Sunday 10am-3pm<br\> Showing:Sunday 3pm-6pm

Goal: Tell, record, gather, and translate stories about learning in New York City to share with schoolchildren from around the world, and create tools along the way.

Introduction

An OLPC Jam is a content creation crunch that gets participants from idea to reality in just a few days. Click here to learn more about Jams in general. This particular Jam aims to:

• Tell and gather stories about learning from New Yorkers from around the world,
• Create tools to help record and share them, and...
• Hold a public, multilingual screening of a large range of selected works in New York on Sunday, then...
• Release them to the world - and come back for a follow-up screening in May when classrooms across the world respond.

We need help!

We're looking for people to help plan the following parts of the Jam. Contact Mel if you're interested, with a short explanation of what you can do, why you want to do it, and any relevant qualifications you might have.

• someone to help coordinate the filming/recording/editing side - wrangling camera/microphone setups to UNICEF for the weekend, convincing volunteers (film students?) to help man them, and finding some way to get the ensuing footage edited into a rough series of clips for Sunday afternoon's showing (which means wrangling yet more volunteers to help out chopping clips through the weekend).
• someone to help coordinate food - getting donations, following up with thank-you letters (and tax deductibility paperwork, if it's possible for us to give that to donors). At a minimum it would be awesome to have pizza on Friday night, some sort of snack-like stuff out on Sunday afternoon when everyone's switching from "HACK!!!" to "PRESENT!!!" mode (water/soda, chips, popcorn, fruit), and coffee in the mornings (or alternatively, late at night).
• someone to help coordinate swag and prizes - some ideas: this could be "find a way to get 50-100 tshirts printed for all-weekend volunteers (we can set a cap on the number of people who want to show up for all 3 days)" and/or "find a way to get a few thousand 'I made something for the world today' creative-commons-branded (ok, other open licenses also) buttons printed for everyone that comes by and records a story"

I want to participate!

Registration is not yet open.

We're looking for the following people - can you help us find them? No experience is necessary. If you're willing to learn what you need to know to do your job during the days of the Jam, we'd love your help. You can come by for a few hours on one day, or stay for all three.

Tales

• Actors, musicians, storytellers, performers, orators, debaters
• Writers, poets, archivists, historians, librarians
• Sociologists, educators, anthropologists, designers
• People from all ages, walks of life, languages, cultures, and backgrounds
• We especially need people who can help find and organize groups of the above - particularly groups of children and non-English speakers.

Technology

• Camera and sound operators - tiny roaming film crews
• Wiki-fluent volunteers to edit, teach, and tutor the people who come
• Hackers, coders, engineers - creating and modifying tools to fit participants on-the-fly
• Film editors
• We especially need people who can help us hash out and manage open-source tools and resources for the Jam.

Translation

• Volunteers with nimble fingers and quick ears to participate in collaborative real-time transcription
• Speak (or read or write or sign) more than one language? Help others find words in your language for the stories they want to tell.
• We especially need people who would like to coordinate the translation effort and the film-festival/museum-like media display on Sunday afternoon.

Teaching

• Teachers, students, parents, and community members with ties to learning institutions in other countries who want to hold partner events mirroring this one in their location

Contact

If you have any questions about the Jam, please contact Jam Coordinator Mel Chua.