Below is more detailed information for many of the sessions that will be held at Drumbeat San Diego. You can visit the agenda page for a current, concise agenda for the day, as well as our schedule which provides detailed information on the where & when of Drumbeat San Diego.
Full group session
Breakout sessions
InstantIMPACT and E-Participation
Open Source & Music Experimentation
Open Source & Worldwide Drumbeat projects showcase
DIY: Build Your Own Video Aggregator
Making Mozilla Better, with Marcia Knous of Mozilla Foundation
Agenda for the February 5th event:
LUNCH 12:30-1:15
1:15
Introduction to Drumbeat
- Lightning Round - Facilitators will give quick 1-2 minute pitches of the sessions they will be facilitating in the spaces around Drumbeat.
Everyone will come together to engage in the Science Fair, Introduction, and spectogram sessions
Human Spectrogram: This session will be a chance for you to share your views on the open Web, the present and future of the Internet, and on related topics.
It's also a chance to stretch your legs and meet other participants because participants will respond to statements by moving themselves physically to where they fit on a spectrum of answers. Once you've chosen your answer, you'll be given an opportunity to offer your opinion on the statement.
This will be an ice breaker, opening up dialogue about what we're here to do, which is to come together with diverse groups in our communities, and then identify ways that we can build together using the open web to better our local San Diego community and the broader world.
Example statements may be "I'm concerned about my privacy on Facebook," or "I think that the government should regulate an open internet."
Some information on human spectrograms: http://www.kstoolkit.org/Human+Spectrogram
Sessions begin 2:30
These will be in breakout spaces
Drumbeat Projects - This is where the rubber meets the road, with many unique ways to get involved and learn from others in your community. Try something new, lend your skills, and build with your community in a variety of exciting spaces detailed below.
- The Open Data Project combines the efforts of the open data community and journalism community in San Diego. This project will allow you to see raw data sets can be transformed into a story that grips people’s attention and provides new insight about our local community. The space will provide a forum for discussion of how to gain access to important data and the methods used to translate raw data into data-driven journalism and effective advocacy. Lorie Hearn of the Watchdog Institute and Jed Sundwall of Open San Diego will also be working with participants to examine data of 911 phone calls compiled over a month period. Diverse participation in examining the stories within the data will help find effective narratives for journalism stories. Journalism plays a critical role in examining the importance of the data findings and building advocacy around the findings.
- From the Open San Diego site:
- We’re still working on the curriculum for our session, but expect the following:
- Insights into how journalists get access to data, and how you can too.
- A workshop on how to develop a meaningful and useful data visualization.
- A discussion on the best ways to make data more available and useful to people.
- In anticipation of the event, we invite you to download the data and play with it. Click here to download a .zip including the 911 data in a .csv and a text file describing what the data mean.
- We’re still working on the curriculum for our session, but expect the following:
- From the Open San Diego site:
- The EAT Good Food project offers readily available information about the new options of organic foods in our local farmers markets. The EAT Good Food Project aims to create a website or phone app about the location of our local food organic food markets as well as the new organic food options available. The Drumbeat San Diego event will be participatory and open opportunity for various communities to come together and voice their needs in connecting easier with their local farmers markets. This type of info-activism is vital to the sustainment of our physical bodies and growth of our local communities.
For more information on this project visit: http://www.newmediarights.org/drumbeat/san_diego_eat_good_food_project
- Citizen 2.0- Citizens' Oversight Projects is trying to encourage open government by fostering active citizens to attend and monitor local government meetings. The wiki is a place for the public to discuss local issues, share information, and take action on the often overlooked actions of local governments. Learn about your rights to access public meetings, ask questions about a successful online open government project, and help Citizen Oversight Projects expand and grow its work beyond San Diego.
Intro
How to we most effectively engage our government to actually see results? Vote? Protest? Join Facebooki causes or click on email petitions? Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) has produced proven results, such as helping to stop the expansion of Blackwater in East San Diego County, halting patently religious and partisan videos being played on the government TV channel, and blowing the whistle on insider deals and scams.
Facilitator: Ray Lutz, founder and National Coordinator of COPs, 2010 candidate, 52nd Congressional District.
It's a sad fact that most local governmental meetings have no citizens attending, following the agenda, and asserting their rights to speak to limit excesses of elected officials and staff members. With no outsiders in the room to watch the actions of these officials, they frequently get off track, resulting in decisions fraught with conflicts of interest, insider deals and improprieties. Staff members will not speak out and risk their jobs, the news media no longer covers these local meetings, and even if they do, it is still up to citizens somewhere to speak up. There is no substitute for oversight by citizens. As Supreme Court Justice Brandeis said, the most important office in any democracy is that of the citizen.
The COPS program trains and deploys citizens to engage in local government meetings and provide essential oversight.
In this space, we will cover, in 2 sessions:
- The problem - our government runs open-loop with almost no oversight or citizen feedback.
- COPS is the most effective way to make a difference -- learn why.
- Success stories and COPS history -- Blackwater, religion vs secular government, insider deals.
- How to become a COP -- select a body and start attending.
- Basic rights in meetings, including the Brown Act, CPRA requests, and rules of order.
- CopsWiki - the online wiki collaboration platform based on foswiki (Free Open Source Wiki) the most powerful collaboration platform available.
- How we organize our work on the CopsWiki platform.
- The future of COPs -- how we plan to deploy the model on a national basis.
One goal of the session will be to help attendees become COPS participants:
- Become an affiliate of the COPS network of activists.
- Select a body to attend, usually requiring a commitment of one or two meetings per month.
- Acquire the COPS handbook as a quick reference as you deploy to your oversight duties.
- Learning about some of the government transparency projects of Sunlight Foundation.
- Seeing InstantIMPACT uses technology to combine great information with positive action.
- Working together to help articulate and design better ways to use technology to inform and engage citizens in political decision making.
- Sharing some great data about Americans' political activity.
- Daring to dream about how political participation can be FUN!
- Open Source & Music Experimentation: space will provide a space to learn how to use open source music software such as Audacity, Ardour, Pd, and Hydrogen. Understand why musicians are talking so much about copyright, copyleft, and Creative Commons. Experiment working with samples to create a short sketch of a musical composition, and learn about the different ways you can share with others the music you create.
Day of schedule:
2:30-3:30 - Open Source Music Experimentation (Audacity, Ardour)
3:45-4:45 - Open Source Music Experimentation (Ardour, Pd, Hydrogen)
5:00-6:00 - Creative Commons and Open Licensing Discussion
The goal of this Drumbeat space is to give participants a basic practical understanding of open source tools and techniques for the composition of sample-based experimental electronic music. Hands on labs are interleaved with critical discussion on various topics surrounding the practice of sample-based composition: notions of ownership in music; alternatives to copyright such as Creative Commons and Copyleft; and the constant presence of musical borrowing throughout music history. Sampling will be discussed in its widest possible musical definition, including how it may change the nature of musical creativity and how it is affecting a wider culture.
This activity is of an experimental nature: departing from your one's own musical background, participants will be encouraged to creatively question underlying musical assumptions and to explore original ways of composing music through the use of existing music. The following music software will be used: Audacity, Ardour, PureData (Pd), and Hydrogen. You can download these to be prepared for the Feb. 5th event. No prior experience or music theory background necessary. Online resources for making your music available on the web will also be presented and compared
- The Future of HTML 5: Workshop on how HTML5 will change media. Chance Roth creator of CloudCanvas is facilitating this session.
- P2P University - Come learn about P2PU, which provides Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything
- Open Source & Worldwide Drumbeat projects showcase - This space will offer participants a chance to freely experiment with a variety of Open Source Software, and showcase a number of Drumbeat projects that are part of Mozilla's worldwide Drumbeat initiative.
- Build Your Own DIY Video Aggregator - In this hands-on session with Morgan Sully of Media Arts Center San Diego, participants will be walked through creating their own video aggregation site using videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Blip, and the Miro platform. We'll cover a little bit of info architecture, RSS and content management based on input form the live session."
- The FabLab San Diego - Fablab is a place where you can make just about anything, and they'll be offering a space where participants will be able to get their hands dirty.
The "Making Mozilla Better" project is aimed at presenting ways in which end users with no specific technical expertise can help the Mozilla project. The first series focuses on UI touch points which are clearly visible to the user. We have created a video and workbook which will work in tandem to show users how they can help submit crash data, give browser input, and install extensions which help give us better test coverage and feedback, especially during development cycles.
It is our hope that users will try out some of what they see in the video, and that will spur them on to become more involved (the workbook is designed to go into further details and can customized for audiences of different levels). We are interested in getting some feedback on the first iteration of the video and workbook at this session.
Attributions in order of appearance:
