[esocialaction] open doc proposal - Roles and Finance

Tue Sep 13 16:34:03 BST 2005

Well.. I didn´t figure out that the deadline were so near.

I will focus in the points that seems to be needing more effort.

About the Tool development / integration
There is a group in Brazil that is doing and systematic analysis of free 
software for multimedia production (sound and video). Most of them came from 
tactical media Brazil. I Believe that almost all software have English 
versions. I were hoping to contact them to establish some kind of bridge, 
since they now are related with a major project in the Brazilian government 
but I don´t know if there will be enough time. If you think it is needed I 
could call some one from that group to the discussion.

About Documentary making / testing
I can put the NGO that I work with in Brazil to test the softwares, also, we 
can make a documentary or something, the issue is that, since the software 
will be in English, i believe that could be difficult to put the community 
were we work to do the test since they can´t speak the language, but, people 
from the staff of the NGO can handle English very well, so maybe them from 
the staff could work as a tester community (the staff is broad inf social 
and geographic origins and context). In this case, I could do the training 
with them.

I believe that more than expertise an project might need "institutional 
support", and I wish I could help with this, the best I can is to act 
through the NGO were I´m working as Projects Director.

So, you people know much better than me how to elaborate an project, I´m 
interested in help in any way I can, anything you people think that I could 
be helpful, please contact me.

Ariel

On 9/13/05, Dearden, Andrew M <A.M.Dearden at shu.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I'm all in favour of doing things on teh wiki where possible, but I have 
> found in the past that writing proposals by wiki is very
> difficult. It is less clear who is going to make sure the proposal 
> actually gets finished and submitted on time. My understanding
> is that we are hoping that Yuwei & Marlene will submit the outline 
> proposal next week (20th)
> 
> We have very little time left.
> 
> I would like to suggest the following allocation of people to roles.
> 
> Needs analysis:
> Andy (myself), Ann Light, David Wilcox -
> 
> It would help to have someone from outside the UK as part of this work. I 
> have a couple of possible contacts (David Casacuberta in
> Barcelona, Fiorella de Cindio in Milan) who might be interested. If no-one 
> on the list from outside the UK wants to sign up, I
> will contact one or both of them.
> 
> Tool development / integration
> Tactical tech? Giles Lane (proboscis)?, Cinelera?, Soenke Zehle?
> We don't have anyone listed as yet as specifically interested in 
> co-ordinating the development work. This is critical. Are any of
> the people listed here interested in taking this on board (obviously at a 
> very provisional level right now).
> 
> The point here is that the initial proposal should make some suggestion as 
> to an approximate budget for the project. We may be
> doing back of the envelope stuff here, but we should have an idea of the 
> kind of amounts we are talkign about, and the time scale.
> 
> Documentary making / testing
> I still think we need someone to offer the specific skills in community 
> documentary making - Ginny at Voluntary Arts may be able
> to help. Who else would be interested from outside the UK?
> 
> Training workshops:
> Leonie Ramondt (ultralab) ?
> Steve Thompson
> Again, a non-UK / non English speaking line would be helpful.
> 
> 
> Evaluation:
> Ann Light, Steve Thompson, Andy Dearden, Yuwei Lin & Marleen
> 
> Assuming that we want this to be a 3 year project, what kinds of finance 
> would people be looking for.
> 
> For my own place I'd be thinking about about 220 - 250K Euros - this would 
> employ a research assistant for 3 years, plus some
> money to cover my time (about 1 day per week), plus some money for travel.
> 
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> Andy Dearden
> Communications & Computing Research Centre
> ACES
> Harmer Building
> Sheffield Hallam University
> Sheffield
> S1 1WB
> UK
> 
> email: a.m.dearden at shu.ac.uk
> Tel: 0114 225 2916
> Fax: 0114 225 3161
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: esocialaction-bounces at email-lists.org
> > [mailto:esocialaction-bounces at email-lists.org] On Behalf Of Yuwei Lin
> > Sent: 12 September 2005 16:19
> > To: esocialaction at email-lists.org
> > Subject: Re: [esocialaction] open documentary project - draft proposal
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thanks for showing your interest in the project.
> >
> > I'm trying to narrow down the project to a more doable level. It is
> > possible that we will cooperate with TacticalTech
> > (http://www.tacticaltech.org) and incorporate their practical
> > activities
> > with the research activities. To make this incorporation
> > easier, I have
> > listed three main research duties essential in this project:
> > 1) mapping
> > user requirements/needs for new media toolset (need assessment); 2)
> > facilitating training workshop (teaching users how to use the
> > new media
> > toolset in a local level); 3) evaluation. Can all interested
> > people go
> > to the wiki page and put your name and affiliation in the
> > category you
> > wish to participate? Cheers.
> >
> > /yuwei
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