Hacktionlab Manchester 2011 Notes

Groups

People here are involved in the following projects:

• Mute
• Bristol Wireless
• Network23
• Catalyst Radio
• Be The Media
• Indymedia - Oxford and Alba
• Aktivix
• No Flag
• Manchester Mule
• Indy.im

intro session - 30mins

• WTF are we to?
• How our projects interact

Hacktionlab on the road - 120mins

• lab - some content is offered from Mute
• hacktionlab - on the road tour, how to organise this - a look at
• funding - is the under the hacktionlab remit? - some things we might need paying for
• festivals - do we do festivals?
• social centres - do we do social centres/unis/colleges
• courseware -lesson plans/online activities/too ambitious?/open
• licence - how can we work on workshop materials together?

leaflet - 60mins

• tech tools for activists
• bookii - get tech tools from source to publishable document HOW?
• editor - tech tools needs an editor
• epublishing - how can you make ebooks - structured books - progressive
• publishing system (PPS)

BeTheMedia front page - 90mins

• session to sort this out this content, looking at how BTM works with other groups
• Make a working process for the tech group - Drupal

catalyst website - 90mins

• streaming server trouble needs sorting, airtime
• skills to share, create a wishlist, look at the airtime GUI to suggest features/bugs
• Strategy for world domination
• media players - look at online media players and how to use them

outreach/publicity session - 6omins

• Ideas
• new hacktionlab website - wiki is a bit inaccessable currently - new front end WP or Drupal

Closing plenary - 45mins

• defining ourselves - where next?