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

• Overview
  • BayKids movies are posted on the BayKids YouTube channel and the BayKids website.
  • We currently have 180 movies in our archives that have consent to be shown in a public, online venue.
  • We do not yet have an effective search index/system for organizing our movie archives online.
  • Our summer interns have designed an Excel document that includes information about each film, including movie title, patient name, editor name, age, genre, illness, movie description, hospital, movie rating, and parent consent confirmation.
• Goal
  • We would like to design a search index/system to help kids and families effectively navigate our movie archives.
  • We need help identifying new tags for the individual movies.
• Links & References
  • BayKids Website: www.baykids.org
  • BayKids YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=baykidsfilmmakers&view=videos
  • Organizations that utilize video search options by illness and age group include the following:
  • Link: http://www.videomd.com/featured_videos.aspx
  • Link: http://www.cfvoice.com/index.jsp
  • Link: http://www.cfvoice.com/info/teens/index.jsp

2. Create search index/system for music

• Overview
  • BayKids is going to roll-out a request for original music from local musicians and needs help figuring out the best way to organize and catalogue music and sounds for our video editors.
  • We have setup an email account for musicians to email us their tracks to us: baykidsmusic@gmail.com
  • We have setup an video editors blog that can link to our music archives.
  • We have not yet identified the best place to store the music archives, but we believe our website is a strong option.
• Goal
  • We would like to design a search index/system that will enable us to search our original music archives by genre, tone, mood, and other relevant key phrases.

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

• Overview
  • We always have movies in need of video editors.
  • We work in Final Cut Pro, StudioPro, and AfterEffects CS3
• Goal
  • We would like to improve the quality of our productions and submit our movies to local and national film festivals.

Next steps:

1.  Sadie and Marcia to connect about kicking off a photography workshop.

2.  Editing:

• Meet in person first.  Most of its done in final cut.  Editors usually work on their own.
• Rainer should follow up with Sadie

3.  Creating a search database.  Could have people come on the 16th.

• 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