Story Jam New York
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<br\> See /Schedule for more information
Goal: Foster youth communication by telling, recording, gathering, and translating stories about life and learning learning in New York City to share with schoolchildren from around the world, and creating tools for them to do this 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"
Contact
If you have any questions about the Jam, please contact Jam Coordinator Mel Chua.