Drumbeat/events/July 29 call

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Drumbeat North America Call Notes

Who's on the call

  • Mera, San Diego
  • Art, San Diego
  • John Britton, New York
  • Heidi Massey, Chicago
  • Michael Maranda, Chicago
  • Spencer, Montreal
  • Dharmishta, Boston
  • Miraj, Vancouver

Agenda

  • Go around cities
  • Questions
  • Updates/Comments on recent thinking

Cities

Chicago

  • Partnered with NetSquared NetTuesday
  • Second Tuesday of July, regular NetTuesday Meeting
  • Intro of Drumbeat project, connected with OneWebDay
  • Lots of differnet levels of understanding in the room
  • Interoperability between groups
  • Strong support from NetTuesday community for Drumbeat
  • Coalition of the Willing - http://vimeo.com/12772935

Boston

Agenda (less traditional, evening event): 6pm doors open 7:30 Spectrogram (was expected to start at 6:30 but we pushed it back) 8:30 Awesome Foundation Announcement 10pm End!

New York

  • Aug 7 1/2 day event
  • 3 days before, hosting an organizers meeting. each of 3 lead organizers recruiting some folks (10-12 people) who will help out on the day.
  • outreach to co-working spaces and hackerspaces
  • avoiding the tech crowd. techies are explaining, facilitating, not the key audience for turnout.
  • food and beer!

San Diego

  • Thurs Aug 5th planning meeting

Q&A

  • How to fit DB events into busy local tech event calendars?

Lessons

  • collaborating with complementary organizations/efforts can drive new audiences that may not show up for "Drumbeat" "Mozilla" or "open web"


New Media Rights links

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/SanDiego

http://www.newmediarights.org/blog/drumbeat_san_diego_collaboration_mozilla_foundation_new_media_rights