Drumbeat/MoJo/hackfest/berlin/projects/newscommunity
GITHUB ID: saleemkhan
PROJECT NAME
News Community
PROJECT LEAD(S): Saleem Khan (free agent)
OFFER:
I can help you:
- Understand organizational news culture and general news practice. I've been a news (local, national, international), business and technology reporter and/or editor spanning print, broadcast and online at the local, national, and international levels.
- Define, plan and map your project / workflow. I have strong project management skills)
- Frame and refine the story of your project, especially for presentation / pitch.
WANTS:
Big Goal for MoJo Hackfest:
I came to Berlin keen to:
- collaborate with the other participants to...
- create something new
- preferably have a proof-of-concept or working prototype that others could build on after this hackfest ends
I would love to be able to work with people to address the news-community problem: Bringing in the people who are not currently engaged with news (the 90% of the population formerly known as the audience who don't currently read/watch/consume/interact with news).
Key steps toward goal:
- find collaborators
- co-create a project
- start hacking
Pending needs:
- collaborators
- a project
It would also be great to be able to gain collaborators on my own project. I'm not married to the idea of working on my personal project here in Berlin...
BUT...
... I am headed to the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in a week, where my project, InvestigateNet was born.
So, it would be cool to be able to go back to the global investigative news community and tell them that their problem now has a solution that they can start using right away.
If you're interested in this, read on:
Investigate Net Saleem Khan
Best case scenario: Produce a working proof-of-concept or prototype of Investigate Net. It is a simple tool, so it should be achievable within the four-day timeframe of this hackfest.
Key steps
- see if critical information inputs for micro-collaboration can be reduced/refined further
- iterate on user experience design
- build working proof of concept
- build working prototype
Pending needs:
- UX critique / additional perspective
- coders to help me build it
More info http://technovica.com/lab/projects/investigate-net
