[Cc-webedit] [mediateam] The LIVE climatecamp event website

[richard hering]

Hi everyone

Have now had the chance to have a look in detail at the proposal for the new
site (I was clear at Sunday's CCTV meeting that that would be necessary for
giving consent to it being the tv site) - and I very much support its
principle of setting up an aggregated live mixed media site.  This should be
really exciting and productive during the Swoop.

I agree also, though, with the reservations above, viz:
1. It is not a TV site, but a very valuable addition to the resources as a
live mixed media site - it therefore should have the domain
live.climatecamp.org.uk. Right now we have set up as a
stop-gaplive.climatecamp.tv
2. I share the reservations about the corporate solutions provided within it
- these are closed source, whereas both climatecamp.org.uk and the
climatecamp.tv and indymedia are open source (the duplication of indymedia
with something which is closed source and has IP logging is particularly
problematic - agree with Jon also that we need to sort this out before the
weekend).

But we like the experiment very much, and would welcome more comments from
webteam on any issues that arise from using it this weekend.

One open source solution for after the Swoop would be to use the imc
pittsburgh code base (they had a fantastic aggregated site for the recent
G20).

Proposal:
We put this up when it is ready as a really happening lived mixed media site
with the address live.climatecamp.org.uk
After the weekend we look at using imc philadelphia's code base for the
construction of a similar live media aggregated site which is open source.

What do especially webteam, who have to set the url, think? I share their
concerns about indymedia, and confess I can't get my head round it right
now.....

Richard

2009/10/13 Jon Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>

> Hiya,
>
> That demo seems broken now - is it up elsewhere?
>
> In general I think this is very cool technologically. But no-one seems
> to be talking about how this relates to Indymedia and I think there is a
> definite conflict there. Whatever we do with the website on the day,
> we're going to need to be clear on one place where people should upload
> their stuff.
>
> I don't have any great pearls of wisdom, particularly as I am struggling
> to actually stay awake, but just thought it was important to start the
> conversation. It's super important we sort this out ASAP.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 01:06 +0100, hamish wrote:
> > Looked at the website http://live.climatecamp.tv
> >
> > Interesting widget mash up. I like it, good to experiment with these.
> >
> > Discussion points
> >
> > * This site is the capture the flag site it has been around for a while?
> >
> > * Because it is made up of lots of different widgets all the parts of it
> > have a different look and feel and different functionality, logins etc,
> > making it unintuitive to navigate in places.
> >
> > * the anti-corporate geeks will have HUGE problems with the use of all
> > corporate solutions, IP tracking, and lack of ownership of data that
> > comes from using for profit software/hosting.
> >
> > * it isn’t finished yet.
> >
> > * It clearly isn’t a TV site, and works best as open publishing so isn’t
> > a replacement for the existing website. See http://indypgh.org/g20/# as
> > the same project at work.
> >
> > * Were will the channels be and what hosting will be used?
> >
> > * I can’t see how comments will be built in. Possible using something
> > like http://js-kit.com which I tried 3 months ago, is it working now?
> >
> > Have created a domain to use http://live.climatecamp.tv  As this is a
> > mixed media live site it should really be at live.climatecamp.org.uk -
> > it would be more appropriate as a climatecamp.org url -it would be best
> > to ask the cc webteam for that domain.
> >
> > Hamish
> > plain text document attachment (message-footer.txt)
> > -----------------------------
> > To get to the Media Team Crabgrass, email press at climatecamp.org.uk to
> request access
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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