Talk:Story Jam New York

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 - ???