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... meeting on 1/14 ... xozine


1. zine

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. ian davidson -- weekly summary : on wikinews. 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

Ian -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. Talk with Kate? about suborganizing

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

13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, ian 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

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6. infobox updates ::

Seth - supports having an updates 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)
Country and trial schools ( -- )
Support and testing ( -- )
Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)
Content and collections : ...
------ wayan vota interviews w/ ??


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 -- going to costa rica on friday. has time now

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