[Toronto-dev] culture sharing initiative - workshop in toronto, June 17

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:11 -0400, KARA SPRINGER wrote:
>   
>> The 'VO - voices' culture sharing project will be
>> having the first in a series of youth workshops in
>> toronto next week Sunday the 17th.  Anyone interested
>> in more info, please contact me, or
>> voicesworkshops at gmail.com.  Please forward this call
>> out to any youth or artists, or others who might be
>> interested in the project who are in the Toronto area.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Kara.
>>     
>
> What were you thinking spamming this innocent list that probably doesn't
> have more than a dozen subscribes?  I mean, seriously, there are
> thousands of other Toronto related forums, lists, and forums, with
> thousands of subscribers each, and you have to push the signal-to-noise
> ratio of an otherwise-silent list down to drain...  sheesh.
>   

Behdad, although it wasn't obvious from Kara's post, her "culture 
sharing project" is an OLPC-related project to set up a culture sharing 
connection between children, youth and artists in various countries 
(South Africa, Nigeria and Canada at the moment if I recall correctly) 
using the OLPC as a channel for communication (and documentation) of 
(potentially at-risk) cultures, particularly their traditional artistic 
forms.  Think "part of Social Studies class", i.e. a content initiative 
with a bit of tech involved.

She presented the project briefly at the last OLPC Toronto meet-up.  She 
is also working with her programmer to help specify/develop the 
software/activities required to perform the actual collection.  Those 
will likely be minor customisations of the teacher's lecture-recording 
activities.

Kara, you might want to include a brief "background" section when 
posting invitations and announcements, just a short 1-paragraph write-up 
about what the project is so that people have some orientation as to 
what you're working on.  You can basically write it once and then copy 
it into your correspondence.  It's a common practice on Open Source 
lists where there are thousands of projects and project names may not 
have any obvious connection to the "content" of the project.

Take care all,
Mike

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