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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).

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 -- un-available starting friday. has time now

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

Iain's notes (moved from main article)

NOTES

2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)

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 greeting

  • new volunteer
  • Devel
  • project creation
  • xo user groups


Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment)

  • WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)
  • Droople (mburns experience)
  • Clone
  • Blog/Blogger
  • Forum/phpForum/phpBB
  • another wiki ?
  • Creative Commons (CC) license ?


Documentation on redirection ideas

  • Ask question, redirection to proper channel
  • Goto list for redirection


A Weekly magazines (by end of sunday?)


Volunteers Coordinators

  • 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:

  • 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

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)