Talk:Weekly zine
Meeting on 1/14 : xozine and community-space discussion:
general notes
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. xoxo (last issue Sept 2007), OLPC:Wiki 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. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.
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
Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c.
- Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --IainD)
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. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.
13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain 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).
- (similar to Planet ? http://planet.laptop.org/ ?) --IainD
Initial Editorial Board
- 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 ( -- )
XO Spotlights
Interview candidates
- from pool of irc/wiki/help volunteers
- dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest
- cafl
- kate davis
- neskaya
- kikka
- misha
- ffm
- nlee
- molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)
- Other youngest (or oldest?) users
Community XO in action 'spotlights'
- Bike ride partner - http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=rRse&doc_id=520&v=0
- Schools (US vs developing countries)
- vetern usage (in RT, "Timothy C. Hodge", disabled vet, use puff/INTEGRA MOUSE by TASH plus )
XO Projects in development/release/in use
- SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers
Iain's meeting notes
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST) (brief notes)
Roll Call:
- Phil (Phil), Seth, (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,
TOPIC AREA:
- Need better outreach to community and others
Target readers, news/items/notes
- Hardware
- Software
- Educators
- User documentation (need more flushing out)
Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)
- Wiki
- xo'Zine (editors speak up)
- RSS
Focus/Acknowledgment:
- Projects underway
- People volunteers.
- Interesting stories, personal highlights.
- Interest group overview.
- Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?
Welcoming committee, new user greeter -- is desperately needed !
- Mchua has a good start to one: User:Mchua/Volunteers_portal
- new volunteer
- Devel
- project creation
- xo user groups
Documentation on redirection ideas
- Ask question, redirection to proper channel
- Goto list for redirection
Blog/Forum Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment needed)
- WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)
- Druple - http://drupal.org/node/141198
- mburns experience
- Clone
- Blog/Blogger
- Forum/phpForum/phpBB
- another wiki ?
- Creative Commons (CC) license ?
- Nanorimo, www.nanowrimo.org
Goal:
Regular published electronic magazine (by end of sunday?)
Pilot project
- First issue out this Sunday (week from today).
Initial Volunteers/Coordinators/editorial staff
- Editor: Seth
- Interview/profiles: Seth
- Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth
- Media/Press: Seth
- Wiki Summarizor: IainD,
- Software/developer: PhilB,
- Translation:
- Education/research:
- Mailing List/annoucements:
Topics/sections:
- Media updates
- Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)
- Wiki
- Mailing lists / announcements
- Country/trial school
- personal
- Content projects
- Education/research projects
Wiki editors
- Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm
Interview:
- IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?
- Other younger users
—Preceding unsigned comment added by IainDavidson (talk • contribs) 05:27, January 15, 2008 EST
Topics of coverage
aka editorial departments
I can try to keep up with l10n and help to cover support.
What other territory has been claimed?
Adricnet 00:31, 14 January 2008 (EST)