Talk:Weekly zine

Meeting on 1/14 : xozine and community-space discussion:

general notes

1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. xoxo, OLPC:Weekly News, OLPC:News,

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
• infobox updates :IanD to find

Update site?

Seth - supports having such a 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)

Content and collections (SJ)

XO media (taken with/made with...)

Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)

Country and trial schools ( -- )

Support and testing ( -- )

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