Camp for Climate Action 2008 Extras
Things to do and ideas to explore
To Do / questions?
- look into audio blogging and maybe using it for the info line latest news feature
- research re-purposing asterisk voice mail as a way to do 'latest news' on info line
- see if there are better ways of doing text to speech or should we avoid it?
- can callers send texts to basterisk? and how would that be useful if possible?
- what use can we make of 'unlimited' texts? (something comms might find useful?)
- could we do a 'useful numbers request' text back service?
- phone based access to camp radio stream? is that stupid? (for listening maybe, but not the other way round)
- any way to make conference rooms more useful in our context? (by combing them with text message invites?)
- what can twitter do? can people set up unmoderated twitters?
- how can we asterisk call logging as a tool for dispatch? (using grep and pipes?)
- what can we do with skypephones, 4000 free minutes and skype to sip?
(send it out in the field for free access to blasterisk (via voxeo) for audio blogging/reports?) (use it as a roaming microphone/outdoor broadcast unit for the radio?)
General Ideas
- using twitter to announce important more detailed news on infoline
- twitter announced teleconferencing for working groups / affinity groups
- group voice mail for working groups / affinity groups
- audio blogs for individuals / affinity groups
- automated questionnaire for arrest reporting
- provide a call back service to legal support team / medics
info line specific ideas
- days news summary (different from latest news)
- todays workshops broken down into morning / afternoon
- next workshops and locations
- next meal - planned menus for each neighborhood
- site wish list (useful before people arrive perhaps)
- site job list (useful during the camp itself perhaps)
- audio press statements?
- reporting line guidelines / howto
- tide times and weather
Budget and spending
Total £975 (there must be something missing.... about another £200, what is it?)
Would be good if we under spend somewhere so I can reimburse myself for 3G antenna and other expenses.
The power related stuff was take out of the budget proposal and moved to the power groups budget.
£450 for internet provision
To cover mikes costs of getting the sat truck there, data tarrif etc
£200 for media team phones
based on last years spending, credit, phones etc
£150 for reporting lines telephony
£30 (to £60) - I've signed up for a Solo contract (1,400 minutes, unlimted texts), which has 30 days notice for cancellation so may end up having to pay two months.
£45 - Purchased two GSM Fixed Cellular Terminals (hope they are unlocked!) so that the cheap outgoing calls are available from the on site voip phones.
£70 - On top of that there are two PAYG skypephones which, with a bit of offsite windows magic, I should be able to rig up as two concurrent incoming trunks providing free forwarding from blasterisk.
Total spent or expected to spend... £145 to £175 (depending on cancelling the solo contract)
£100 for media pool
This is to cover storage media for the photo and video pool. Looks like we will get two 500gb drives at £50 each.
£100 for sundries, blank cd/dvds etc
Doubt we really need this much. We could take any additional PAYG 3G data on this (it's a consumable).