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2020-05-09 Our Networks Planning Call

📅 Date: Sat, May 9, 2020 @ 12:00-13:30 ET
🙋 Participation: jitsi.hypha.coop/ournetworks and calendar
📓 Notes: https://hackmd.io/thUKLLPMQSan3mRo2d6bGA?edit 👪 Attendance:

  • garry
  • sarah
  • mauve
  • dc

Agenda

  • Previous Business
    • dc: send out to previous sponsors
    • sarah: email OAC grant
    • dc: move open hour moved later in may
    • garry to send design draft by May 2
    • schedule website cowork for week of May 11 (before May 18 relaunch), probably 16
    • sarah to email about shift in event date eligibility
    • dc: Share sponsorship pipeline doc
    • Apply for Eyebeam WE'RE DOING IT! Deadline May 21...Draft May 8
      • sarah: create doc template
    • dc: mozilla hubs set up... for Thursday (eep!)
  • Standing Business
  • Discussion
    • Open Hour
    • Collaboration
    • Sponsorship
    • CFP/advertising
    • Design
    • Experience and Registration Package
    • Format and conference tools

Notes

< SCHEDULE BREAK!>

  • dc:
    • Are we meeting enough?
    • Do the dates align with what we need to do?
  • May 30 - 2hrs
    • 30 mins meeting
    • 1.5 cowork
  • June 6 - 3hrs
    • target this for submission review !!
  • June 1-15 busy period!
    • Review CFP
    • Launch/set up Reg
    • Email presenters
  • #todo dc flip to using hypha jitsi for next few
  • #todo dc add to calendar

Open Hour

  • sarah:
    • got feedback that hubs is confusing
    • aspects are enjoyable, would like to use it in an additional capacity
      • balance it iwth other spaces that are more...familiar
  • dc:
    • mauve running through stuff great!
    • 12 people, good showing, not a lot of sessions
    • access issues: my computers barely run it, barriers
      • got kicked, glitches, terrrible integrated graphics
  • sarah:
    • getting kicked
  • dc:
    • "20% of programming, but if 50% it would be difficult"
  • garry:
    • Social/break/intersitial space

Looking ahead:

  • Places:
    • Minecraft server?
      • have to buy account
    • Minetest -- open source clone?
      • Download software, config and connect to server
    • Discord
      • Also sign up
      • Not in our vibe/wheelhouse
    • Online Town
  • Next open hour?
    • Probably not hubs, because
    • #todo garry trialling/setup for next open out (tenetatively online town)

Collaboration

  • park for Mauve/Wendy

Sponsorship

  • #todo sarah: emailing other sponsors (info in pipeline)
  • #todo dc: keep following up with three lead sponsors
  • #todo dc Follow up on Wendy dweb stuff? and whether we're pooling resources
  • #todo sarah add some sponsorship opps

CFP advertising, satellite events

  • #todo dc Toronto-based orgs

[Intros]

  • Sarah: berlin, art exhibition, party plannings
  • Garry: toronto, design and research, and media art, net art practices, graphic design+ developer
  • Michael: upstate NY, media producer/creative technologies

Design

  • Want to spend time on another iteration, in one or both depending on where we do that
  • Want to see if how the
  • Shift in website navigation
  • Concept: "the green one"
    • 3D generative imagry (musuem objects that are scanned)
    • how to represent time (some interactive way to select timezone)
      • dc: can it be two way?
    • evolving oval based on UNIX timestamp
    • timezones visualized in some way (or a representated in some way)
    • 3d objects
    • dc: love the green!
  • Concept 2: transforming fun
    • metaflop font
    • title heading changing over time using metaflop generation at a set cadence
    • content area
    • more emphasis on typographic v. colour treatment
    • threshhold webtool + narrow colour palette to add texture
  • sarah: vibing with 1, love metaflop
    • layout feels fresh, big departure
    • vibe 2 for: colour from 2 reminds of year two (retro for ournetws as an org)
  • mauve: vibing with 2, images especially
  • dc: love both, want them to do both!
    • colour from green -> into images?
    • image treatment from 2 vibing with
    • what about changing the content background colour?
  • garry:
    • concerns with de-emphasizing logo?
    • want feedback in the design issue
      • #todo dc: to paste in
      • #todo others add theirs in!

Experience and Registration Package

  • Build on what you have already
  • Experience components any thing from:
    • net art
    • web experiences
    • interpersonal (micro-interactions during the event)
  • Michael's approach: empathy, humanity through connection
  • Timeline-wise -- ready for June
    • keep it simple
    • More exploratory, guide
  • Mauve: what would it look like for a person experiencing it?
    • Michael:
      • a hook: email/interation/teaser in mailouts (a prompt)
      • additional items / narrative elements in the event that people could experience through the event
      • provides an atmosphere for people to expand their awareness /
      • a plot twist/ or payoff/climax (might be a technical part)
      • resolution / call to action
    • creating tools/environments and taking it out into the world
  • Mauve: mostly digital? mostly web/email?
    • Michael: can be timeconsuming to create digital assets
      • maybe an imagined character, email chain, chat, minimize website creation
      • reflective/interpersonal prompts
      • relationship to networks how do you want to change that?
  • Sarah:
    • somewhere between narrative and reflecting on elements of life?
      • not solely narrative, time to create story/structure
      • thematic framework / outline of environment, but not a story or transmedia experience
      • Some graphics / character created, but all to prompt to interact
    • often to connects people to other conference attendees?
      • definitely being opt-in and consent
  • How to work together?
    • collaborate, to help guide and help with the project
    • the "creating the experience" (assets) more on Michael
      • proposing ideas
      • moving the process forward
      • open to working with vision, around processes we have in place
  • playtesting as need
    • dc
    • sarah "down to playtest!"
  • structured on saturdays at the time to check-in -> May 23

Things to think about in future

  • Format and conference tools
  • Documentation/recording (program for event and commissioning for after?)
  • Accessibility

TODOs

[Move to/Update project issues from this list]

  • Apply for Eyebeam WE'RE DOING IT! Deadline May 21...Draft May 8
    • sarah: create doc template May 14
    • dc: help review/feedback (will need more lead time on review if me)
  • dc flip to using hypha jitsi for next few
  • dc add to calendar
  • garry trialling/setup for next open out (tenetatively online town)
  • dc: to paste in
    • others add theirs in!
  • sarah: emailing other sponsors (info in pipeline)
  • dc keep following up with three lead sponsors
  • dc follow up on Wendy dweb stuff? and whether we're pooling resources
  • sarah add some sponsorship opps
  • dc advertise to Toronto-based orgs