MozService Service Sprints

SF Bay Area

August 24th

Organization: Envision Schools

• Format/Topic: Social Media seminar
• Owner: Mary
• Time: 4 p.m.
• Attendees:
  • Tara
  • Mary
  • Jeff Zeller

September 14th (In-house) and 18th (At Benetech)

Organization: Benetech/BookShare
Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities

• Format/Topic:
  • Virtual:
    • Looking for volunteers skilled in XUL, JS, XPCOM, and/or C++ to enhance AnyDaisy.
    • Transcribing children's books.
    • Proofreading
    • Writing summaries
  • In-Person
    • Proof read scanned books & summarize children books.
• Owner: Aravind
• Time:
  • 9/14 at 12PM (at Mozilla)
  • 9/18 at 3:00PM (at Benetech)
    
    • Get a demo of the chopping/scanning process at Bookshare
    • An opportunity to interact with one of our visually disabled staff persons who will demo how many of our members use Bookshare
    • Be given a group tutorial on how to proofread books
    • Each person would be given a "starter" book to begin proofing.
• Attendees:
  • 9/14 at 12PM (at Mozilla)
    • • Aravind
      • Mary
      • Jane
    • 9/18 at 3PM (at Benetech)
      • Aravind

September 16th

Organization: Hidden Villa

• Format/Topic:
  • Setting up a "Service War room"
  • Social Media tutoring
  • Migrate website to WP
  • Optimize wireless network
  • Farming on the CSA during breaktime!
• Owner: Mary
• Time: 9:30 - 12:30
• Attendees:
  • Mary
  • Sarah
  • Ryan

Organization: National Kidney Foundation

The National Kidney Foundation, a major voluntary nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing kidney and urinary tract diseases, improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by kidney disease and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation.

Format/Topic:

• • Social Networking:
    • Facebook
      • Need to use current FB & link to other FB accounts that are out. Rosa to send list of these. Wants people to realize that they are the official representation from Northern California to Alaska.
    • Twitter
      • KidneyNCA
    • Ning
    • Also have YouTube and MySpace Accounts
  • Effective email blasts/campaigns that will have high response rates.
  • Learn how to create a blog account.
  • Find tools to strengthen the NKF presence on the web.
  • Using text messaging to reach out to a younger group of people
  • Search engine optimization
    
• Owner: Aakash
• Time: 4-6PM
• Attendees:
  • TBD
    

Organization: Bay Area Kids

BayKids empowers children facing medical challenges to express themselves and find joy through the art of filmmaking.

Format/Topics:

1. Create search index/system for BayKids movies

2. Create search index/system for music

3. Video Editing projects- edit BayKids movies and related projects

• Owner: Suneel
• Time:
• Attendees:
  • TBD

September 17th

Organization: Youth Speaks

Youth Speaks is the leading nonprofit presenter of Spoken Word performance, education, and youth development programs in the country.

• Format/Topic:
  • Technical
    • Would like a web based file server (most people use macs only 2 use PC's at the office)
    • Something "virtual" that does not have to be additional hardware at their office
    • Already use Google Docs but are looking for something for all files
  • Non-Technical
    • Since moving to a new facility they need help organizing their library of books,, sorting and pull everything together
      
  • Owner: Phong
• Time: 2PM
• Attendees (4 people)
  • Phong

Additional SF Bay Opportunities

Here are a slew of activities in SF: http://www.ctnbayarea.org/owd

Here are some "challenges" to take part in:

• Providing Web help in Cafes, libraries, etc: http://www.pledgebank.com/mozserviceweb
• Conducting Internet Health Checks: http://www.pledgebank.com/internethealth
• Teaching Social Media Seminars: http://www.pledgebank.com/mozservsocial

TBD

Organization: 826 Valencia
Support students ages 6-18 with writing skills.

• Format/Topic: User Experience and Web Development
• Owner: Atul
• Time:
• Attendees:
  • Atul
  • Jennifer Boriss
    

Toronto

September 14, 2009 - The Mozillan is 'In' - Internet Help Desk at the Parkdale Library

Organization: Parkdale Libary

• Format/Topic: Question desk, general computer/internet help for users at the library
• Owner: Lukas Blakk
• Time: Monday September 14th from 2-6pm
• Attendees:
  • Lukas
  • Chelsea
  • Anthony Hughes

September 16, 2009

Organization: Creative Commons Licensing Clinic

• Format/Topic:
• Owner: Mark Surman
• Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Attendees:
  • Mark
  • Chelsea
• Location: Centre for Social Innovation

September 22, 2009 - OneWebDay

Organization: OneWebDayYYZ

A number of Toronto One Web Day activities are in the works, with an evening event at Cafe Taste on Queen Street West the core. It'll include:

• Cocktails and conversation about make the web better. Also, some great music.
• Videotaping, picture taking, drawing: document your passion for the web.
• Screening of Us Now, a film about how participatory web culture is changing society.
• Drop off for old computers for Little Geeks and others to bring the web to people who need it.

Also, many small, self organized Toronto One Web Days will happen at homes, cafes, offices, bars and whatnot all around the city.

Learn more here