What should this community be/do?

[Chris Beer]

I proposed a long form way of participating in the pubmedia community.
I'm not particularly attached to the idea of a Google Group or a
listserv, I just see a need for more collaboration outside of Monday
at 8. Twitter is a fine medium for getting people talking, but I find
it difficult to have a conversation, and I hope something like this
can supplement #pubmediachat.

Engineers have an active listserv (publist for radio, the PBS Connect
forums for TV), traffic/programming has a community site, and while
there are certainly high level discussions about online strategy, I
haven't found a place within public media to ask very practical
questions around public media projects. Because setting something up
to try takes all of five minutes, it seems silly not to experiment.

I'd love to see a public media analogue to the code4lib <http://
code4lib.org/> community, which (very successfully) brings together
library technologists, programmers, and interested others and spawns
new collaborations all the time.

What are your thoughts?

[johntynan]

I think what the community needs is critical mass. I think by
starting small and doing one thing (the tweetup) each week and doing
it well, I think that a wider adoption could be achieved.

One idea that you might find interesting is the idea of a Public Media
Monthly Book Club, where people who are interested read a common
report or important treatise on social media or media creation or
broadcasting. I started a wiki with this in mind:

http://pubmedia.pbworks.com/

Feel free to use this as a resource, if you would like.