Difference between revisions of "Compassion in Action Technology"

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You have found a page for the group supporting the Compassion In Action conference through technology. Included in the effort is fostering community before the event, including remote people during the event, and distributing information after the event.

An intention is to support the conference enough to engage participants in shaping technology use for the larger NVC USA Project.

Website for conference: http://compassioninactionusa.org/

Who

People helping out so far include Rick Smith, User:Anthony Varghese, User:John Abbe, User:Lmarvell, User:Parenthesis Eye (aka (I)An-ok), Lucy Perry and Mark Schultz.

Before

John sent word out to NVC webmasters

wireless access at Mills

Erica will let us know this week - our understanding is there will be a per person fee.

set up Drupal

Who: Linnaea, Tony and Parenthesis Eye (Lucy for advanced questions)

Prioritize which of these should happen before registrants are added and the siteis announced.

• General Text - (I)An-ok to take the lead on this section
  • Slogan - done
  • Mission - done
  • Footer Statement - not needed
  • enter initial text, basic conference information - done
  • Front Page Text - done
  • session ideas [and/or in profile?]
  • prominent pointers to help, tech support - done

• General Configuration
  • Profiles - for participants' names, photos, bios, sessions offered ~ Tony and (I)An-ok to figure out which fields and set up.
  • Configure content types - Linnaea - done
  • set up navigation and blocks - done
  • set up cron - Linnaea
  • Create and enter a taxonomy

• Modules - enable and configure
  • Forums - done
    • set up forums: ride sharing, housing cooperation, ideas for the conference - Linnaea - done
  • Chatbox - done
  • Upload - done
  • Image - Linnaea done
  • Aggregator done
    • Configure to take feed from NVC Wiki site - Linnaea
  • Blog - done
  • Comment - done
  • Ping - done
  • Poll - done
  • Help -done
  • Page - done
  • Path no
  • Profile - done
  • Search - done
  • Taxonomy - done
  • Locale - not sure about this. We're in favor of multiple language support, but unsure of our ability given time and skill - for now opting for ease.
  • Added image galleries and folksonomy support for the 'Interest' Taxonomy Term

• Look and Feel
  • Add conference logo - Rick
  • Decide on theme(s) and enable/configure - Lucy

• Share
  • import attendees' login name, default password (Lucy)
  • announce it

set up SynchroEdit

collaborative editing system for collective note-taking

http://synchroedit.com/ is willing to host it, and Kalle is intending to have it set up by June 15

(John, Rick, Linnaea)

recording

hardware/software for sessions (Rick will ask Erica if Mills would supply)

interviews -> podcasting - we're asking techies we know for help as none of us are audio/video experts

training / tech support

"NVC Geek" pins/badges! (Linnaea)

Time on chatbox - Linnaea, Rick, Tony, (I)An-ok, Tony

Things for tech announcement

Ask people to bring laptops

Announce resources - website, SynchroEdit, wiki, wireless access

Announce support - Chatbox, contact people - (I)An-ok,

Request for projectors

Request for microphones

Announce ways for those not present to participate

• CNVC - Kay (website), Jori (Friends of NVC)
• Etc.

During

Support for SynchroEdit, Drupal, http://nvcwiki.com/ and other net NVC resources:

• flyers
• someone at registration table
• talking it up
• taking & posting photos
• visible tech support

reporting - written & audio & video?

audio visual devices - local, remote

After

Follow up - drupal

Harvesting/Learnings/Pass along strategies