Drumbeat/WeeklyUpdates/May-03-2010

May 3, 2010 Meeting Agenda

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Agenda

• Call for agenda items

• Kudos and thanks :)
  • Please welcome Paul Osman, Senior Web Developer!

• Universal Subtitles (Nicholas & Dean)
  • Follow-up on help offers & next steps
    • Quick update from Nick & Dean on what's happening this month for the project
    • How can we make most effective use of help offers & new sign-ups?
    • How can Drumbeat help Univ Subs most effectively this month?

• Launch plan
  • Review launch plan wiki page
  • Follow-up from last week:
    • More detail on channels / outreach google doc of outreach volunteers and their audience
  • Key Message

• ROFLCON
  • Brett

• Events update (Gunner)
  • Berlin

• Drumbeat Bulgaria
  • Check out Bogo's blog post

• Drumbeat in Brazil
  • Drumbeat São Carlos
  • Internationalization - 'Batucada'
  • Follow-up on WMM Workshop on TV Cultura

• Web roadmap
  • Web site development, social media, & content

• Other items?

Notes

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Universal Subtitles

Considering two questions right now 1) When do they start testing? 2) When to release?

• Have immediate use for beta testers

• More open-ended offers: various skills

• Video on You Tube explaining the project. Had offered to be an advisor to and for the deaf community for the project.
  • Let's send that video around!

• Should the project create sub-committees around specific areas / communities

• Need to find a way to lay it all out, group people together

• Sent a big email out last week -- with fundraising ask
  • Haven't gotten latest results from Chelsea yet

• This month: more clarity for folks signing up for project

• Non-public beta test: will start within next 10 days
• Question: when does it go to public beta: much more open ended

• Language offers

• Once fully lunched, will be more automated way for people to identify language skills
• How do we structure the community internally?
• If see Wikipedia as model, want to organize around certain languages?
• e.g., some people as moderators for a given language? Roaming moderators? etc.?
• Certain experts within languages that can elevate others up

• Is there something beyond the demo video that can be presented at Drumbeat events (e.g., Drumbeat Berlin) to plug people into project?
• How can we plug Univ Subs into local events?
  • Follow up: can we set up a beta testing station for Berlin?

Events

• Berlin training event Friday. Main event at Betahaus in Berlin
• Still need outreach help to get non usual suspects. Open education, open art, open cinema, open knowledge, etc.

ROFLCON

Brett

• Group of usual suspects
• Rather than covering event, focused on

Ethan Zukerman (sp?), memetic culture, BuzzFeed

• used as lens onto open web

• Interviewing Johnathan Zittrain May 28

• Brett: big goal for project: develop HTML5 video tools
• working with Ben Moscowitz on WebMadeMovies.org
  • idea: having a landing page
    • divide participation asks between: 1) content creators and 2) geeks. with software challenges
  • will set up wiki on content side of things
  • will set up an ideascale install -- brainstorm what people are looking for and what geeks can make with HTML5 video player
    • set the stage for a design challenge

• is it a bad idea to split the participation that way?
• how can WebMadeMovies learn from Nick & Dean's design challenge experience