Invitation to Anyone Who Wants to Start Talking About An Experiment in Promiscuously Collaborative Production, Starting in Like October...

[Heather Kapplow]

Hey All,

Thanks for a fabulous pubcamp--you guys all did an incredible job of
running with the pubcamp ball, and thanks especially to WGBH Radio/
Interactive/OpenMedia/PRX/Annie etc!

I am just home now from the circumstances that kept me from being able
to do any post-pubcamp celebrating, exhausted, but almost obscenely
obsessed with getting started on something. I realized (2 minutes into
the session that I foolishly tried to lead while still running around
troubleshooting event logistics even after the session was scheduled
to start,) that I have been waiting basically a year to start a
conversation that I could barely articulate the main issues of in a 30
minute session, so I've decided to just immediately launch into
inviting folks to have that conversation for longer. Somewhere. Soon.

Whomever sends out invites back to the Eventbrite mailing list, please
forward the following:

"If you are interested in meeting with a group of all types of media
producers (who work in any format) to identify an upcoming event of
significance to MA (or Greater Boston if the self-selected group turns
out to be more local than that) to use as a test case for
experimenting with linked, multi-dimensional coverage where production
elements and applied resources are organized with collective intention
to share and link amongst the group in order to meet different
coverage needs and create depth beyond one's normal scope, send an
email to "oyea...@gmail.com". When I get your email, I will invite
you to a google group where we can set up a 1st meeting date and
immediately begin discussing goals, issues that would need to be
resolved in order to accomplish them, and just generally envisioning
cool types of event coverage that have never happened before/the kind
of toolkits that would be needed in order to make this happen."

Thanks again for everybody's enthusiasm and energy, and I'm sorry I
didn't get a chance to talk to most of you for more than a moment!!
Heather

PS: In case it's not clear, this is intended as more realistic follow
up on the incredibly over ambitious session that I proposed and then
barely had the brainpower to introduce, described in the pre-schedule
as follows: "I'm interested in brainstorming with folks about how to
develop a set of local resources that allow for co-production to occur
across the boundaries of any individual organization's capacity. I'm
interested in figuring out a way to collect best local practices/
resources for low-budget field production that is good enough for web
and some air formats; developing a centralized hub for skill sharing,
equipment/resource sharing (and/or bulk discount getting!), footage
sharing and deployment of a system that reduces coverage that
duplicates rather than adds dimensionality to a story. Would love a co-
leader for this session with tech dev skills to help think about
infrastructure options..."

[Jason Pramas]

Well thank you, too, Heather. However, I didn't think your session was
overambitious. It was good. People liked it. And I'll definitely sign up
for your new group.

Cheers,

Jason

[kpooley]

I think we also would like to talk about some sort of qualified
interest...qualified by the fact that we aren't really that close up
here in Maine, though I think that might eventually be more
interesting than liability.

I also thought it was a good session, if nothing else it really
spurred me to think about who potential collaborators might be but
also what sort of nested spheres of local might make different sorts
of working together have value...

Thanks!

Ken Pooley
Maine Public Broadcasting

[Annie Shreffler]

Heather & others,
there was some talk on tonight's public media twitter chat about how/
if producers share resources and pool talent. you might be able to
connect your ideas here, and the ones brought up in your meetings,
with the stuff some other producers are doing. Here are the tweets:

@MarkRyanWFWA: Anyone out there been caught in the people versus
equipment bind? How'd it work out at your #pubmedia station?

@annieshreff: interesting you mention equipment. It came up in our
pubcamp & a group has formed to talk about resource sharing!

@kreynen: Thought #pubmedia was canceled. Went out to eat. Got back to
find I missed a chance to promote http://drupal.org/project/merci

@kreynen: 200+ #pegtv stations and universities use the MERCI #drupal
module to make the most of the equip they have. Any PBS or NPR users?

Best,

Annie

> > email to "oyeaht...@gmail.com". When I get your email, I will invite

[Heather Kapplow]

Hi All,

1st meeting to explore cross organizational production/resource/
content/coverage sharing models is tomorrow night at 6:30 at Russell
House Tavern in Harvard Square. We are a very small group so far, so
I'm throwing the idea back out to the wider pubcamp community. Please
feel free to show up and bring suggestions or curiosity with you. Also
feel free to tweet this (Annie) as you all know I'm allergic to
twitter. We will try to grab one of the tables at the bottom of the
stairs on the lower floor and I will try to find a disco ball (or a
tinfoil ball if I can't on such short notice) to put on the table so
that you know you are at the right place....we'll keep it short and
sweet...a drink n' greet with a bit of goal setting.

Feel free to reply to this with questions, but show up if you can, it
would be great to have something spawned at this pubcamp start to
actually come into being....

Heather

On Sep 14, 1:13 am, Annie Shreffler <annieshr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Heather & others,
> there was some talk on tonight's public media twitter chat about how/
> if producers share resources and pool talent. you might be able to
> connect your ideas here, and the ones brought up in your meetings,
> with the stuff some other producers are doing. Here are the tweets:
>
> @MarkRyanWFWA: Anyone out there been caught in the people versus
> equipment bind? How'd it work out at your #pubmedia station?
>
> @annieshreff: interesting you mention equipment. It came up in our
> pubcamp & a group has formed to talk about resource sharing!
>
> @kreynen: Thought #pubmedia was canceled. Went out to eat. Got back to

> find I missed a chance to promotehttp://drupal.org/project/merci

[Annie Shreffler]

I will tweet it, but can't make it. BHS parent night. :(

Annie