Drumbeat/WeeklyUpdates/August-30-2010
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Aug 30, 2010 Meeting Agenda
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Agenda
- Call for agenda items
- Drumbeat Festival update (Nathan)
- Quick update on new micro-site, registration, venue
- Quick update on new micro-site, registration, venue
- P2PU School of Webcraft (Pippa)
- Registration for Fall Semester is now open! Check outcourse list here.
- How is registration process going? How can we help?
- blog post to reblog / link to: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/webcraft-pilot-courses
- Registration for Fall Semester is now open! Check outcourse list here.
- WebMadeMovies
- RFC on Hack Day at OVC (Brett)
- Trying to create a low-maintenance organic event. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/webmademovies/hackday
- Please take a look at the wiki page and if you have questions or suggestions anything to add please be bold.
- Trying to create a low-maintenance organic event. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/webmademovies/hackday
- RFC on Hack Day at OVC (Brett)
- CrisisCamp (Heather)
- Silicon Valley event. Great posts from Atul Varma and Mitchell Baker.
- What's next?
- New project introduction (Ekua)
- BISA Bringing Innovation Source Coding Africa
- Drumbeat project page. Web site.
- Questions / looking for help with:
- Mentorship opportunities / contacts? (Who else is already working in this space?)
- Potential partners / collaborators?
- Feedback on project focus & goals / roadmap?
- BISA Bringing Innovation Source Coding Africa
- Project Fundraising (Chelsea)
- upcoming fundraising plans for Universal Subs, P2PU SoW, and WMM
- new idea / proposal for WMM fundraising
- Other items? Add here!
Notes
Drumbeat Festival
- go to Get Involved page for ways to help
- Also a student rate
- two new pieces coming online: new tab / page on logistics
- plus will also add "media" tab / page
- almost ready to announce venue(s): art and design space called FAD, plus Macba design museum [NOT YET FINAL]
- Mash-up reception keynote
- Also finalizing relationship with hotels and hostels
FAD English site: http://www.fad.cat/contents/view/home/lang:eng
MACBA English site: http://www.macba.cat/controller.php
P2PU School of webcraft
- 12 courses total
- Pippa's class already has 97 applicants
- ways to help: blog and tweet about courses that still need participants
- P2PU: Tech Sprint in Barcelona: software that anyone can download and submit a patch to. enable community development.
WebMadeMovies
- Goal: hack day OVC: idea for using popcorn on their own project
CrisisCamp
- Friday night 6pm CrisisCamp starts at U of T.
- Wide variety of skills needed. Don't have to be a hardcore developer.
- Toronto event: http://crisiscamptoronto4sydney.eventbrite.com/
BISA
- localization / translation. translate.org in Johannesburg: leading organization
- Philipp: FOSFA: happy to have Ekua come on board and animate that community
- Heather Leson: also had recommendation for Ekua (follow-up off list)