Our Stories
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Contents
About
Our Stories is a joint project involving OLPC, UNICEF, Google, and Story Corps to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks.
The Story Corps team are advising on modifications to their recommended process for interviewing a friend or loved one that will work for a young audience of interviewers; the idea is to localize the process and surrounding projects, and to carry out class activities around such interviews in OLPC partner countries. The project hopes to have 1 million stories, and to have a third of all XO owners to have recorded a story, by the end of the first year.
Google engineers are starting to work on the project as of late May, and a draft proposal outlines six initial countries [Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ethiopia] and interface sketches.
Questions to answer include:
- how to get recording tools to children across the country
- how to develop localized activities around interviewing and recording others, and around reading the stories of others
- how to spread the word; introducing children, parents, and other teachers to the ideas behind the project and ways to upload and share recorded stories; building networks of Our Stories participants and broadcasters; providing posters about the project to telecenters and radio stations
Status and Goals
From the most recent Google project lead discussion:
- Content editing for interview guides and website
- Team leads for country networks
- Engineering: can use the Platypus infra to host audio files
- One person working on front-end of website
- 2 folks with XOs who want to work with OLPC
The Activity: symbolic interface w/ 3 symbols: record, play [and search], upload
The Nitty Gritty
Tech notes
Send use case docs around
ogg and mp3 available everywhere.
Homepage
2 sections on the homepage:
- who the partners are and contributors
- interview guides and content
"olpc" and storycorps and other site.
--> built, hosted, &c on google.com infra. private labels elsewhere?
Someone from earth-maps outreach; working in july, at least committing to get storycorps stories online. Not huge incremental additional effort to put all uga, pak, bra likewise. Note difference between google maps and google earth; later requires fat client.
Nigeria call update
Some followup call with the ministries; across unicef nigeria and olpc nigeria?
unicef wanted some equal targeting of 6 geopolitical zones. this is a reason to find alternatives ---> question re: resource allocation to pda activities.
four languages [ibo, hausa, yoruba, english]
l10n/i18n capability : G! have folks ready to help.
dump things into OLPC first. turnaround and validation.
discover $ cost; trans agency might split the cost.
Website meeting: Plan sth for early next week. what does the interface and arch look like?
Rough deadlines:
- July 15 - mockup from engineering (zahed, frankie c. doing coord)
- July 21 - all content (abi dhaba? site designer; oolas doing website; rota, webmaster for .org as well for standards)
- Aug 1 - draft
- Aug 15 - submitted to translation
project plan map -- content and eng side, with a content map.
(maiko) doing non-eng, (phil farhi) doing project across all.
People
Brouna - country lead brasil
Nataile - s.c. admin
Maiko - non-end coord
Daisuke - came to first meeting, cf maiko
Rota - web grp
Jed? - country lead Nig; Katherine is the other, from OS team
Allie - editorial
John - eng, voice recorder on XO
Heather - editorial, site & teacher content
Jen Liu - work with Stephanie, Uruguay
Laura - editorial, work with Holly
Holly - editorial
Stephen
Jane - country lead for Arg
Chris - Apps team, Arg lead
Sarah - Rwanda country lead, l10n coord
Shyam? - not there
Phil Farhi - proj coord (not there)
restricted access / content policing -- youtube has human/monetary efforts. jamendo much smaller... with community efforts.
john: website launch team needs traffic ideas, are a bit wary that they just offered to let millions of people upload audio of arbitrary length to a central site, and want estimates of peak upload / visitation traffic.
