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;* Next Call - Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 9pm EDT // 6pm PDT
:** [[Media_Center#Next_Agenda|Agenda]]

;* Conference Dial-in Number - (605) 475-4825, Participant Access Code - 866209#

;* [http://notes.ussf2010.org/media-center.wb Live Notes!]

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== Goals & Organizing Principles ==

The People's Media Center ([[PMC]]) -- in acknowledgment and celebration of the critical and valuable role people-produced media has played in advancing our movements and creating another world -- will break new ground in growing alliances, supporting our host city, and building relationships to further our efforts and deepen the connections between art, culture, media, and transformation. Understanding that WE (as activists, artists, community organizers, media makers) are the change agents we have been waiting for... the PMC has created these living principles to address and challenge hierarchy within our movement. Recognizing that individuals and organizations with differing abilities, purposes, and resources are all welcome within this space, we are all committed to overturning institutional imbalances which can lead to division and impair the quality and quantity of stories being generated and shared before, during, and after the USSF. For us, institutional imbalances means that many voices have been traditionally denied access to media outlets, and media-making resources that guarantee that access, as a result of oppression and exploitation. Therefore, we accept the responsibility to ensure that those who have been denied such access based upon race, class, sex, age, creed, ability, criminal history, sexual orientation, and immigrant status will be prioritized.

1. Accessible Space: The PMC will be accessible, welcoming, and secure for all attendees, audiences, and communities in and around Detroit and beyond through Detroit Expanded. It will be accessible to all people with a diversity of languages, skills, resources, and abilities.

2. Production Environment: The PMC will encourage all Social Forum attendees to document the USSF using TV, radio, online video, blogging, print productions, photography, mobile blogging, podcasts, websites, databases, and/or any other creative form(s) of expression and information sharing.

3. Learning Environment: The PMC will provide an easily-accessible and welcoming space for Social Forum attendees of divergent backgrounds to learn and teach media production. The PMC will facilitate resource and skill sharing.

4. Meeting Space: The PMC will be a space for networks, organizations, crews, and ad-hoc groups to meet and plan, produce, recruit, and collaborate.

5. Community Resource: PMC equipment, organizing principles, and volunteer energy will be left in Detroit for local media justice organizations.

6. Collective Use: As co-users of, and co-creators within, the PMC, we collectively acknowledge that we are all experts at our own experiences and will all share in this environment of radical living and learning.

The People's Media Center will build strategies for our movement in these areas:

1. Alternative Media: Reach out to alternative media organizations and networks to create autonomous "spaces" that are run by participating organizations, groups, and accountable individuals who can provide the necessary means to produce media and teach media production, as well as prominently publish their work through this process.

2. Community Facilitation: Create a working group of diverse backgrounds and perspectives to facilitate an organic schedule of trainings, workshops, and meetings. Foster communication on disagreements and concerns when necessary. Engage in restorative problem-solving as requested.

3. Praxis and Pedagogy: Individuals and Organizations will share the environment by assuming responsibilities to teach and work as well as learn, offering our abilities and resources as part of this dynamic, grassroots media-making exchange.

4. Media Politics: List these principles and others prominently, recruiting both political and non-political organizations, while encouraging multiple perspectives and furthering the conversation in our communities about the role of people-produced media in creating another world.

[[Media:PMC_intro.pdf|PMC intro document]] (PDF)

== Needs List / Budget ==

[[media_center_appeals|Appeals letter]]

PDF of Appeal Letter [[http://wiki.ussf2010.org/images/9/90/PMCappealletter.pdf]]

[[PMC Final Budget]]

* Mobile TV Studio: laptops, battery packs, video cams, software, mobile cellular sticks;'''5000-10,000'''
* Large flip paper pads, whiteboards, and markers: for meetings, workshops, and training sessions. '''$500'''
* Dedicated media server/hard drives: not covered under the ICT budget, includes one time purchase of hardware, cost of maintanence and hosting. '''$3000'''
* Routers/switches: '''2000'''
* Site-wide mesh network and software, ordering from FLOSS-dedicated organization in the Northwest at $60 each (10-20), for a total of approximately '''$600-1200'''
* Power strips, ethernet cables, and USB cords (must order new): Ambassador ballroom is not well-;wired with electricity. Total cost estimated around '''$600'''
* Computers: 100 machines will be donated in-kind or borrowed. Expectation is to find P3+ machines for video/audio editing and lower-grade machines for blogging, general use, and email. '''$0'''
* Flash cards/storage:
* Mixers, microphones, 1/4" and XLR cable (find used?):
* Projectors:
* Satellite link:

[[COMM's Audio needs list]]

== Volunteer Needs and Schedule ==

Send out call for orgs: what are you doing, what do you need, can you provide volunteers, what equipment are you bringing (can others use your stuff)?

Recruit Volunteers and Point People (2-3 hour shifts starting on Tuesday)

Need help with Tech set-up crew on Monday--starting at 7 am.

Opening Shift
*8 am-10am (just folks doing briefings—open up)

Day Shifts
*10am - 1 pm (first point person starts—goes to 3pm; needs lunch)
*1 pm - 3:30 pm
*3 pm - 5 pm
*5 pm - 7 pm
**need 4-5 volunteers for each shift(half COMMs info/problem solving; half ICT/tech support)

Night Shifts
*7 pm – 9 pm (need late night volunteers in at least two shifts—closes up)
*9 pm - 11 pm
** 2-3 volunteers (tech support and problem solving)

COMMs will need to fill at least 100 2-3 hour shifts (give or take an hour) over 5 days. Assuming that many volunteers may do more than one shift and that others will flake out--we are probably looking at 50-60 volunteers needing to fill at least one shift; and with many of those volunteers (at least half) more than one.

[[PMC volunteer sign-up]]

[[PMC Point People Sign-up]]

== Areas of Media Support ==
=== Radio Broadcast ===
* Prometheus Radio, Philly
=== Television Broadcast ===
* Deep Dish TV
* Open Media Foundation / DeProduction
* Free Speech TV

=== Online Radio ===
* RP&E Radio, Race, Poverty & the Environment Audio Podcasts on Climate Justice and Women & Work.
* Earth Cycles (http://www.earthcycles.net)

=== Online Video ===
* WSFTV.net
* video.indymedia.org
* freespeech.org

=== Print Media ===
* Critical Resistance
* Indypendent
* Terra Viva
* Race, Poverty & the Environment

=== Youth Media Space ===
* Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective

=== Blogging & Online Newswire ===
* [http://indymedia.us Indymedia.US]
Collective comprised of spokes from local IMCs nationwide [http://indymedia.us/en/static/about.shtml About IMC-US]

=== Online Organizing and Campaigning ===

The following organizations will offer scheduled and on-demand trainings in a range of skills related to online organizing and campaigning. For more information or to volunteer as a trainer, contact info@aspirationtech.org

* [http://ruckus.org Ruckus Society]
* [http://aspirationtech.org Aspiration]
* [http://ran.org Rainforest Action Network]
* [http://radicaldesigns.org Radical Designs]
* [http://torproject.org TOR Project]

=== Logistics ===
* 510 Open - Wireless mesh network
* Motor City Free Geek http://motorcityfreegeek.net

==Trainings, Workshops and Skill-shares==
====Meetings====
[http://notes.ussf2010.org/media-center-trainings-100503.wb Notes May 3, 2010]

[http://notes.ussf2010.org/media-center-trainings-100509.wb Notes May 9, 2010]

====[[Directory of workshops, trainings or skill-shares we might offer]]====

====Scheduled workshops====
With seating for 20 people or fewer. No giant workshops.
* FOSS Installfest! (can be scheduled multiple times) - MF/PL & USSF ICT
* Deep Dish TV: Waves of Change screenings - Deep Dish TV
* Plumi sprint with IMC-Video and WSFTV.net
* CiviCRM sprint for the WSF registration system
* Motor City Free Geek screening of e-waste recycling scams

====Equipment and space needs====
We'll need several projectors. Not sure about screens.

====Online needs====
====Participating organizations====

NOTE: ''All of the workshops, included those that were formerly listed below here, are now aggregated above.''

[http://radicalreference.info Radical Reference]
Radical librarians whose mission is to support the research and information needs of activists and independent journalists. We want to provide support by offering fact checking services, teaching skill shares, staffing an information desk (physical or virtual), and helping with onsite organizing and coordination.

[http://aspirationtech.org Aspiration] and [http://www.ruckus.org The Ruckus Society]

The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals.

Aspiration helps nonprofit organizations and social justice activists make more effective use of technology.

Ruckus and Aspiration will be facilitating a loose collective of 10-15 trainers, including folks from [http://www.ran.org Rainforest Action Network], [http://www.radicaldesigns.org Radical Designs], [http://riseup.net Riseup.net], and [http://torproject.org TOR]. We plan to do many of the trainings as participant-driven, "what do you want to learn?" sessions.

[http://www.guerrilla-griots.org/greenguerrillas.html Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective - Ithaca, New York]

[[Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective]] is an innovative, grassroots job-training program which values teen’s creative insights and capacities to transform their reality as leaders and participants for change. Green Guerrillas study documentary and narrative film making; make their own media from posters to movies; do outreach at community events; advocate for equitable living and learning environments; get their “hands dirty” learning about renewable energy; and, analyze important social, political, economic and environmental issues which affect their lives as low-income youth of color.

[http://ran.org Rainforest Action Network]

[http://radicaldesigns.org Radical Designs]

[http://torproject.org TOR Project]

====Dedicated Space Needs====
=====Free Speech TV=====
Ideally, we'd like enough space to set up, in a public area, where we can conduct on-camera interviews, and set up our live video streaming work-station. A 15' x 15' space would be great. Imagine two chairs for interviews, lights, camera and tripod, and an edit/switching station. Two fold-out tables (3' x 5' or so), 6 chairs would be more than sufficient. We would also need access to power, and would prefer ethernet connectivitiy but can use wireless. We'd be staffing this space primarily between 9am and 9pm. There are also a number of organizations that we hope to collaborate with during the forum and in the PMC, including New America Media, and the Media Consortium, they may also want space.

=====Adele's needs=====
1. We need to put in a request for at least 12 dividers. We have to set-up an office/admin space (ICT/Comms/Volunteers) and daily briefing space inside the PMC. I requested separate rooms, but they didn't have the space. So we have to set them up in the center. The briefing area will need at least 60 chairs. The briefing area should be away from the windows.

2. Radio is requesting ISDN connections. Is it possible to have an ISDN connection in the PMC and our live rooms (W2-57, W2-71)? One live room is reserved for Telesur, the other is for full participant use.

3. We need a station set-up for the USSF Documentation and Evaluation working group. It will of course be a collaborate station, but Documentation and Evaluation will be using it often.

4. Are we able to get a screen?

=====Radical Reference=====
will need access to power because at least one of us has a laptop that only lasts
about five minutes without electricity. It would be great if we were near
the info desk and/or a small training area with a projector, or if we had
our own portable projector, and if we had a sort of consultation space.

=== Other Possible Partner Organizations ===
Including groups whose primary mission is not making media. Once groups are contacted, we should move these under their Area of Media Support

: [http://GlassBeadCollective.org Glass Bead Collective] NYC (GlassBeadCollective.org)
: Local [[Indymedia]] collectives--active [[IMC]]s that could/should/may be able to contribute resources or participants:
:--Pittsburgh IndyPGH.org
:--Rochester NY Rochester.Indymedia.org
:--Twin Cities TC.Indymedia.org
:--SF Bay Area Indybay.org
:--Houston Houston.Indymedia.org
:--Portland Portland.Indymedia.org
:--Philly PhillyIMC.org
:--Urbana-Champaign UCIMC.org
:--Chicago Chicago.Indymedia.org
:--Many others? - other active sites include Arizona, Miami, NYC, Worcester, Boston, DC, Seattle, Rogue Valley OR, ...

:--Media Alliance SF Bay Area

:New America Media (www.newamericamedia.org)

== Meeting Notes ==
:[[PMC Meeting, June 8, 2010]]
:[[PMC Scheduling Meeting, June 3, 2010]]
:[[PMC Tech Setup Meeting, June 2, 2010]]
:[[PMC Meeting, June 1, 2010]]
:[[PMC Tech Setup Meeting, May 26, 2010]]
:[[PMC Meeting, May 25, 2010]]
:[[NPC PMC meeting, May 22, 2010]]
:[[PMC Meeting, May 18, 2010]]
:[[PMC meeting, May 4, 2010]]
:[[PMC meeting, April 27, 2010]]
:[[PMC meeting, April 13, 2010]]
:[[PMC meeting, April 1, 2010]]
:[[PMC meeting, OC meeting, March 26-28, 2010]]
:[[PMC meeting, March 2, 2010]]
:[[PMC meeting, February 17, 2010]]

=== Next Agenda ===
Facilitator: Mallory
Notetaker: ???
# Introductions
# Logistics and Setup
## Report back
## Discussion & Questions
# Schedule
## Report back
## Discussion and Questions
# Outreach
## Report back
## Discussion and Questions
# Dedicated Space concerns
# Questions, feedback, next week's facilitator/notes

2010-06-02T01:15:19Z

Melissa:

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I am a public librarian in NYC and an intern at [http://openflows.com Openflows Community Technology Lab]. I'm a member of [http://radicalreference.info Radical Reference] and have also worked with [http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/btb.html Books Through Bars - NYC] (and other books-to-prisoners groups) and the [http://anarchistbookfair.net NYC Anarchist Book Fair].