On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Alex Keybl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > My name is Alex Keybl, and I'm the founder of the OLPC grassroots efforts at > Duke University. I'm emailing the list because I'd like to get a feel for > interest in an idea a few of us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] have been mulling over. > > We've been discussing the possibility of hosting an OLPC grassroots web > conference, with the goal of increasing general communication between > grassroots projects around the world, as well as increasing the visibility > of OLPC projects. This ranges from software/hardware development to pilot > programs and public awareness campaigns. We want to hear about what's going > on, from the mouths of those involved.
Including the children. > What we're suggesting is a live streaming conference online. It would > probably go something like this: > > > Have people sign up for time slots to present at the conference beforehand > Get a Skype account for the conference > Have people call in at the time they signed up for (audio or video), or > possibly even send an audio/video clip ahead of time > Blast it out to Justin.tv (or Ustream.tv, or Operator11) using camtwist. > All of these services are live streaming services (think live YouTube) > Allow viewers (and other presenters) to ask questions of the presenters > using a live chat > Keep the video and chat history in the archives > > What's especially interesting is that this will not only be a live and > interactive event, but it will also be available to grassroots projects and > others in the future. I would like to add this to the PyCon code sprint process, and would suggest it for all of the PyCon presentations. > Please let me know what you think by emailing me at alex.keybl @t duke.edu > if you are interested or have questions. I'm not sure about the rules of > this list, but if they are lax, feel free to also reply here. Thanks for > your time. Lax? Please! Talk to us more! Everybody! :) > -Alex Keybl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
