WG/Media/Minutes/120222

- *Website campaign feature task force - Brett, Farhad, Joshua, Dan* - *Greenway emails - Joshua* - *Text admin list - Ariel* - *OBIT / Communication - John* - *Anna / Daily Digest Reboot - Farhad* - *Volunteer information form on the website - Farhad* - *Contact info for volunteers - Joshua will send to John, John will start reaching out* - *"What do we need from volunteers" collaborative doc - Joshua will send out, and we'll all contribute (yes, even you)* - *Video editing training - **Bil, Deb, and Rene* - *Rebooting the multimedia bubble! - Rene* - *Universal set of guidelines Task Force - Josh, Farhad, and Dan* - *Occupy Lent* - *Send out Occupy Lent press release - Joshua* - *Contact David to film - Josh* - *Wrangle livestreamers - Dan* - *Photography - Deb* - *Occupy the MBTA (Saturday March / Rally)* - *Press release* - *Writing - Josh* - *Editing - Deb* - *HD video - Dan* - *Post-event blog* - *Writing - Deb* - *Editing - Dan* - *Livestream - covered* - *Check with Jess for help with editing MBTA Hearing video - Josh* - *Community Gathering - Decolonize to Liberate Press release* - *Farhad will investigate to see if they're able to write one BUT WILL DO NO MORE THAN THAT* In attendance: Farhad - Facilitator, Bil, Joshua, Dan - notetaker, Josh, JoJo, John, Deb S B, Brett, Rene, Ariel, Nick *Things from last week* - Article Compilation - Deb B (not present) and Matt (not present): - Deb and Matt working to compile articles about OB from the last 5 months - Website campaign Feature - Brett: - Brought it to OBIT - OBIT'd like to make sure that whoever is working on this feature will be meeting with / working with OBIT so that there's no website confusion - Questions: How are campaigns selected? Who will create the content for each campaign? - Maybe ask each group that is spearheading - Occupy the T, Vita Urbana, Strike, M17, - *We'll create a Task Force to work on this issue* - Brett, Farhad, Joshua, Dan - Greenway Emails - Joshua - *Tonight or tomorrow ("I promise")* - Text admin - *Ariel still needs to sign up* - Contacting OBIT about comm issues - *John hasn't yet contacted OBIT; we'll follow up next week when Gunner is here* *Status of YouTube Account - Eli (rollover)* *Daily Digest Volunteer - Gunner (rollover)* - Anna interested in picking up the Daily Digest again - Has been working with Inreach / Info, which would be able to take on the Daily Digest again - Anna will need blog access - Will it be duplicative of the Rundown? - John: No - Daily vs. weekly vs. a few times a week (such as post-GA? Rollover proposals that will be coming up at the next GA?) - Liaison between Anna and Media WG and Facilitation: Farhad *Superform Guidelines - Dan* - *We'll send it out over the listserv and workshop it* - *Just kidding, we changed this later* *Open House - Nick* - If Media WG will be attending the Open House on April 2, we'll need to furnish a short description. - Used the opening sentence of the mission statement - Also, Nick needs help doing outreach to talk to church groups, knitting clubs, book clubs, etc. *FAWG and Media - Gunner (rollover)* *Volunteers - John* - If people would like to volunteer for Media WG, John would like to take point so that we can make sure to keep our Media team strong; right now, we're not doing enough to expand; we need new faces! - John, in particular, will need assistance with the Rundown - Farhad: Inreach/Info will be more active in bringing in volunteers; Info had been a great intro for volunteers - Terra may also be attempting to coordinate volunteers - Deb: We should be proactive about having someone to outreach to volunteers when we have GAs outside, big events, etc. - *Farhad: Look into creating a volunteer information form on the website * - We need to make sure that if we have people showing up for meetings to give them some kind of assignment—people show up to WG meetings looking for something to do! - Joshua has a lot of media contact lists; should we go through the list and try to contact them? - John: We also need fresh contacts - *Joshua will send contact info to John; John will start reaching out to people* - Farhad: Volunteers is a "needs and resources" question—what do we need volunteers for? - Multimedia - *Joshua will send out a Google Doc for us to collaborate on: "Where do we need people?" -*Data will be collected, presented, and analyzed - Idea: mentor folks… if we have new volunteers, they should be shown how to complete the task *Rebooting Multimedia - Rene* - If an action happens, there needs to be video coverage! We need 4-minute video clips of actions that get out AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE - We need to archive these pieces of footage - Farhad: Two challenges…getting out work from Media WG, and coordinating and publicizing people who send us their own footage - We also need to figure other things out, like who owns the footage? - Creative commons! - Deb: Maybe publicize some trainings, such as on video editing! - Can we publicize OBTV trainings? - Yes, but those are also more "specialized" equipment, which perhaps a lot of people may not have access to - *Bil and Deb and Rene will be collaborating to plan a training* - *Rene will take point on rebooting the multimedia bubble!* *Youtube Issues - Eli (rollover)* *Post-event Blog posting - Josh* - These may be a capacity problem, not a guideline problem - Frequently, we end up having blog posts sit in limbo, sometimes without them being assigned - This is somewhat a response to autonomous posting and publishing - We also need to make sure that they get out as quickly as possible - Counterpoint - we should update as frequently as possible, whether they're old or not - We need to figure out editing better, too - We need teams of two, not group editing - In general, we need a universal set of guidelines that can kind of be something that can be referenced - We don't have enough writers… we need more who can go to events and then write about that event - PROPOSAL: We need to try to not bite off more than we can chew - If we do post-event followup, it should be mainly in the form of photos and video - Counterpoint: This is out history; we should write about it as much as possible - Also, posts can be backdated—they don't need to show up on the front page! - *Farhad, Josh, Dan will create a task force to figure out guidelines* - On post-event guidelines, we need to make sure to explain expectations to writers - We'll also want to have new folks start off as "contributor" status on the blog *Upcoming events* - Youth Jobs Rally - We don't know anything about it and it's tomorrow, so there's not enough lead-time to get this done - Occupy Lent: - Press release has already been written - Should it be sent out for the first time, or should it wait until after the second time? - Every Friday during Lent at the Bank of America at 8am - Liturgy of repentance… - There's nothing that needs to be done… the press release will be sent out ASAP - Josh wil contact David re: video - Dan will send out livestream info - Deb - photographer - Occupy the MBTA, 12pm, Copley - Josh = writing press release, copyedit by Deb - Dan= HD video - Deb = post-writing; Dan=copyedit - Livestream is covered - Contact = John Murphy - Occupy the MBTA - Josh - -We need more video footage of stories from people who share their stories about reliance on the MBTA - edit into 1-2 minute video, then another that's longer - Josh will check with Jess - Community Gathering - Decolonize to Liberate - Press release - Could they draft something that we could copyedit? - *Farhad will investigate BUT WILL DO NO MORE THAN THAT* - F29 - National action against ALEC - Next Wednesday - Not worth a press release unless something big happens - But perhaps a blog post, especially if it's on the "aggregate" - *Joshua will write an aggregate F29 piece (rollover)* - Also include in Media Rundown *M17 Action Spokes* - There are a few things that we need to discuss... - Dan is the spoke - Resolved, that Media WG supports the idea of the Radical Revolutionary Tour and that Media WG supports the idea of having some form of assembly, not necessarily a GA, in a more public, accessible location on March 17