Thoughts for devcoop this Tuesday (6pm @Himmel)
Golda Velez
I plan to be there this Tuesday, a couple quick thoughts about subjects/format
At the openTucson meetup, they described the openCities 'unconference'
format, that sounded kind of cool. Basically they got everyone
together first to see what people were interested in, then decided on
the subjects live. I know we're pretty small and informal but I
thought we could try that, go round really quick and see what everyone
wants to hear/talk about, and do things in order of interest.
Here's some stuff I could talk about
- using SPARQL to query dbpedia
- REST stuff
- free access to Factual local data
- the openTucson meeting
- which Wiki for small projects (semanticMediaWiki, google sites,
Confluence $10 copy, others..)
and what I'd like to get feedback on:
- my new bTucson.com layout, and how to add value by mashing up data sensibly?
Thanks, see you soon!
--Golda
Golda Velez
Francis has some preso's ready to go: 4-minute demo of creating and
then reading the QR codes that the OpenTucson group plans to put at
bus stops. If time permits, I would like to show a 3-minute demo of
how the IceWeasel Mozilla-based browser running in Linux renders
Web-page tables and <!-- --> tags differently from Internet Explorer
and Firefox.
Shanna has some experience and interest in unconference formats, I've
asked if she'd be willing to demonstrate at our meeting Tuesday - what
do you guys think about trying something like this:
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Pretty similar to our existing format, just more getting on feet to
write down. - This is taken from open space meeting and peer
conference.
0) Go over format. - bring sticky-notes
- could serve as planning for this session and future sessions
1 ) Questions - go around and we write down our answers and put on
wall as we go
A) What do you most want to learn about or idea to discuss with others?
B) What thing(s) do you know most about that you think you could add
knowledge/teach on? (1 topic to sticky)
(Cluster notes on topics on wall if overlap?)
2) people mill around, look over the offerings on wall and sign up
with other peoples offerings for what interests them most. could also
sign up to research or find expert, or help on a topic.
3) schedule the most obvious (easiest, most enthusiasm?) few for now
and next time. and start on the first thing that night.
4) end of night, review and someone keeps the topics to bring next time.
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Shanna I hope is ok if I forward both emails? More good background info here:
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 3:40 PM, shanna leonard<s...@email.arizona.edu> wrote:
Golda -
That sounds awesome.
I know I keep saying that I'm going to come, but don't make it, and its
cause grad school + work + mom is alot.
But I am extremely enthusiastic about this mode of learning. And will try my
darndest to be there Tues night. I was really sorry I missed Thurs night
meeting last week. I have an idea for planning a larger unconference
format. And I would love to work with anyone interested in launching this
this summer when I am more free.
I spent a fair amount of time looking at collaborative
conference/meeting/learning/organization formats including unconference /
barcamp.
- OpenSpace http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm
- Peer Conference
http://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/about-peer-conferences/learn-about-peer-conference-characteristics/
- Sociocracy "Dynamic Governance"
Also here are things I have been learning this semester in school"
1- Entrepreneurship - starting a venture - Finance, Marketing, overall
verification of customer/product, startup and investor capital.
2 - Social media. - I have been working on research project for Ventana
Medical systems on this.
I like the Open Space format, which is somewhat modified in peer conference.
I would like to see people propose
- topics they would like to learn about or projects they want to collaborate
on.
- Topics they can teach on.
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--- On Mon, 4/25/11, Golda Velez <gvel...@gmail.com> wrote:
Golda Velez
nonprofits so maybe he knows a good small need we could fill. It
would be great to do it with him and some of the WordPress design
guys, they are awesome designers.
On the SEO front, here is some food for thought:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-googles-panda-update-changed-seo-best-practices-forever-whiteboard-friday
See you this evening
--Golda
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Chris Niswander
<cn...@chrisniswander.com> wrote:
> On 06/27/2011 01:25 PM, Golda Velez wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Chris! I'll be there, SEO and SEM sounds good to me - though
>> I've suddenly lost ground in the last few weeks!
>>
>> Another week maybe we could try a live coding day, with people
>> contributing ideas and working together on some appropriately tiny
>> project we could try to do in an hour?
>
> Hmm. Anyone want to suggest tiny project ideas? I *had* an idea
> previously, to help an obscure non-profit, but I discovered that it's been
> taken care of.
>
>> I'd also like to try the
>>
>> 'unconference' model Shanna has described, it sounds fun.
>
> I'd like to try the unconference model too--even though I'm aware that it
> could require significant work to do it up right. I assume we might want to
> team up with one or more other group(s) (such as Spoke6 and/or Gangplank
> Tucson) to get more attendees and maybe a longer period of time -- and maybe
> even a larger meeting space -- for an unconference. But it would be a very
> worthy change-up! It should also be good for attracting visitors and
> attention to whichever of those organizations takes part.
>
> I am also aware that if Shanna runs this, she will need people to volunteer
> to be 'Indians' to her chief. :-) And when the whole project is over,
> Shanna will be more knowledgeable about which people in what organizations
> are good at actually efficiently moving a project forward. :-)
>
>> --Golda
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Chris Niswander
>> <cn...@chrisniswander.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Everybody,
>>>
>>> The next Developers Co-op / Developers SIG meeting is on June 28th
>>> (Tuesday), 6p-7:45p, in the Himmel Park Library's large meeting room.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on whether you want to do specific plans or topic(s)?
>>>
>>> As you might recall, I had thought it might be nice some month to make
>>> our
>>> meeting topic-specific to discuss SEO& SEM& compare notes. I think
>>> if/when we do that, it should be a day that works for
>>> - Shanna (because she seemed interested; she also told me a funny SEO
>>> story
>>> a couple of months ago;)
>>> - Dave Parizek (because if I recall correctly, I think he's seriously
>>> studied the topic)
>>> - And of course, preferably any& all other members and special visitors
>>> interested in the topic. :-)
>>>
>>> Location
>>> 1035 N Treat Ave., 85716, 594-5305
>>>
>>> The next 2 meetings after that are at the same place, same time of day,
>>> on July 26th and August 23rd.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Obligatory signature:
>>> This email address is for the use of my friends and associates only --
>>> please don't publish it.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Obligatory signature:
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> please don't publish it.
Dave Parizek
Another non-profit in need is HerpCount.org. This is a citizen
science site I am working on, but would love help potentially
expanding it, or making a site with broader appeal at WildCount.org.
Potentially plan to convert it to a GeoDjango site from a Drupal site
to get more geospatial capabilities.
This might be something we could code together. Or we could code an
iPhone or Android app for it, I have starts on both.
Another perhaps better idea for the group: I have the domain name
MyDataCollector.org. At this site, I want to create a site where a
non-programmer, like a scientist, or really anyone, could build a data
collection form that could then be deployed to website, and to mobile
phones - ALL the major platforms, practically in the click of a
button. Including fields like a map field to input location, and
select fields, and text fields / text areas of course. User defined
fields. Image and video fields. Hopefully even orientation (bearing)
fields from the accelerometers.
use some tasty javascript goodness to make it very drag and droppy to
design the form.
then use this brand new api from PhoneGap:
https://build.phonegap.com/ PhoneGap Build
this lets you send them your javascript and html 5 automagically via
web service, and get back built "native" mobile phone apps for all the
major platforms like android, iOS, blackberry, etc.
The website then at MyDataCollector.org would allow a scientist to
design a data collection form, the web app would then create phone
apps for that form and a website template for that form so the
scientist would be all set to collect data specifically how they need
to collect it. Including ability to upload from phone to website, and
reporting tables / views / charts on the data, and download of the
data in CSV or excel or XML format.
Perhaps this sounds like a lot, but most of it is already doable quick
building off say existing Drupal modules or Python/Django apps. We
would mostly just need to build the form designer, and the parts that
take the designed form and send it to PhoneGap Build and create a
website. But for example, creating the website could be just mapping
from the form elements to Drupal CCK fields, or Drupal webform fields,
or fields in whatever web framework chosen.
anyone interested in this one? It could potentially be useful to
non-profits, scientists, business people, developing countries, you
name it. We could even charge the business folks to use it.
Anyway, looking for collaborators on MyDataCollector.org if anyone
interested. Please do not share it around willy-nilly, as it is my
idea and I want to be involved in it, so would be sad if someone beats
me to it. Which someone likely has in some sense, for example, there
is Open Data Kit, which is android only.
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/
But I think we could do something better. If anyone interested, I
could maybe send more links with more background info.
-Dave
Golda Velez
maybe be used for first hand whistleblower reports too, which I'm
interested in for my corporate behaviour work with Alonovo.
Factual (my day job) will be happy to let anyone create a table which
allows crowd sourcing, I can show that at the meeting - we might even
have web apps close to done for it, that could be adapted
--G