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

[KARA SPRINGER]

no big deal behdad,

the reason there's very little information is that i
attached a flyer for the event to my email without
realizing that it wouldn't make it into the
mailinglist posting.  I'm sending you some info now.

I'm organizing a series of youth workshops in order to
develop a web-based culture sharing platform that
ultimately i'd like to become a contribution to the xo
laptop educational curriculum.  There are a number of
groups already doing media related projects with youth
in toronto, so it's a good place to source out how
this kind of project could work on the ground as we
work to develop the supporting web interface and
software.  that's all,

we'll be posting the project on the wiki this week, 
feel free to contribute to our code needs when we post
them if you're up for it.  and again, if you're
connected to any youth or community based artists in
the city, feel free to pass this info along.

take care,

kara.

people interested in the workshop or project at large
can contact voicesworkshops at gmail.com.  or me.  thx,

 


--- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 01:35 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher
> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Oops.  I'm extremely sorry, and embarrassed.  Guess
> that's what I get by
> skipping meetings..
> 
> On my defense, the only reason I replied is that I
> cared, and read it,
> looking for something interesting, but all I found
> was: no URLs, some
> event, email me.  That triggered the spam filter
> immediately...
> 
> Again, I apologize to Kara and other list members. 
> Will try to act
> maturely next time.
> 
> behdad
> who really wanted to attend the last meeting but
> couldn't
> 
> 
> > 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
> > 
> -- 
> behdad
> http://behdad.org/
> 
> "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to
> purchase a little
>  Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor
> Safety."
>         -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
> 
> 
> 
> 
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