Drumbeat/WeeklyUpdates/August-30-2010

Aug 30, 2010 Meeting Agenda

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Agenda

• Call for agenda items

• Drumbeat Festival update (Nathan)
  • Quick update on new micro-site, registration, venue
    

• P2PU School of Webcraft (Pippa)
  • Registration for Fall Semester is now open! Check outcourse list here.
    
  • How is registration process going? How can we help?
    • blog post to reblog / link to: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/webcraft-pilot-courses

• WebMadeMovies
  • RFC on Hack Day at OVC (Brett)
    
    • Trying to create a low-maintenance organic event. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/webmademovies/hackday
      
    • Please take a look at the wiki page and if you have questions or suggestions anything to add please be bold. 

• CrisisCamp (Heather)
  • Silicon Valley event. Great posts from Atul Varma and Mitchell Baker.
  • What's next?

• New project introduction (Ekua)
  • BISA Bringing Innovation Source Coding Africa
    
  • Drumbeat project page. Web site.
    
  • Questions / looking for help with:
    • Mentorship opportunities / contacts? (Who else is already working in this space?)
      • http://www.opensourceafrica.org/ http://www.fossfa.net/
        
    • Potential partners / collaborators?
      
    • Feedback on project focus & goals / roadmap?
      
• Project Fundraising (Chelsea)
  • upcoming fundraising plans for Universal Subs, P2PU SoW, and WMM
  • new idea / proposal for WMM fundraising

• Other items? Add here!

Notes

Drumbeat Festival

•  go to Get Involved page for ways to help

•  Also a student rate

•  two new pieces coming online: new tab / page on logistics

• plus will also add "media" tab / page

• almost ready to announce venue(s): art and design space called FAD, plus Macba design museum [NOT YET FINAL]

• Mash-up reception keynote

•  Also finalizing relationship with hotels and hostels

FAD English site: http://www.fad.cat/contents/view/home/lang:eng
MACBA English site: http://www.macba.cat/controller.php

P2PU School of webcraft

•  12 courses total
  

•  Pippa's class already has 97 applicants
  

•  ways to help: blog and tweet about courses that still need participants
  

•  P2PU: Tech Sprint in Barcelona: software that anyone can download and submit a patch to. enable community development.
  

WebMadeMovies

•  Goal: hack day OVC: idea for using popcorn on their own project
  

CrisisCamp

• Friday night 6pm CrisisCamp starts at U of T.
  
• Wide variety of skills needed. Don't have to be a hardcore developer.
  
• Toronto event: http://crisiscamptoronto4sydney.eventbrite.com/
  

BISA

•  localization / translation. translate.org in Johannesburg: leading organization
  

• Philipp: FOSFA: happy to have Ekua come on board and animate that community

•  Heather Leson: also had recommendation for Ekua (follow-up off list)