Drumbeat/events/July 29 call

Drumbeat North America Call Notes

Who's on the call

Mera, San Diego Art, San Diego John Britton, New York Heidi Michael Miranda 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

• Aug 24th 6-10PM
• 60 People
• Awesome Foundataion and Center for Future Civic Media at Venture Café
• Blank on nametags for words
• Spectrogram: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/facilitators/training

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