Talk:Story Jam New York

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Potential locations

  • CUNY Macaulay Center
  • UNICEF office in Manhattan

Possible activities

  • Record stories using OurStories and other programs (not sure what the limitations are for what you can record with OurStories)
  • Record lectures - get profs and teachers and experts to come in and talk for half an hour on something they're passionate about
  • Record life stories from random people - adults, kids, everyone - wandering by on the street
  • Record conversations, debates, discussions on difficult topics
  • Record screencasts and demos of cool things people have done with their XOs
  • Record musicians playing - XO music videos
  • Record theatrical productions
  • Record language lessons (see colingo.org)
  • Subtitle and translate when possible (DotSub?)

'Course, the "record!" part implies there's something to record, so some groups will spend most of the weekend making something and only a little time filming it, others will spend the entire weekend shooting or writing. We can hold a public screening of the results on Sunday afternoon - a little film festival of sorts, and screen OurStories stories from other parts of the globe as well. Filming stuff would also be less bandwidth-intensive on your wifi than a software-development Jam.

What we need

  • Space ( and a date and max # of people ) - DONE -
  • Equipment (film, video, sound, editing... screening)
  • People (and people to coordinate people)
  • Food. Plenty of it.
  • Swag, if we can get it - tshirts? silkscreen-your-own?

Point people

  • Space - cfabian
  • Registration/communication - mchua
  • Filming/showing - NEEDED (
  • Food/open-space - NEEDED (Julian?)
  • Tech development - ???