Present: Alan, Catalina, Colin, Dana, Gregor, James, Julianna, Liam

Updates

Alan

• Alan updated about budgets, work is ongoing;

• will send out information shortly about DEEP conference attendance

Catalina

• working with young people on storytelling through artisan work

• volunteers are signing up via social hubs / incubators throughout Mexico

• gathering material for youth to create stories about the community - about their daily lives

• classes in different social incubators in different areas in Mexico - volunteers signing up this week

Colin

• wiki page about our approach to storytelling tools - feedback welcome! https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/SJRK+Web+Storytelling+Tools

• continuing work on dictation tool 

Dana

• working on mockups as we flesh out more features of the storytelling tool

• most recently thinking about what it looks like to search, what categorization looks like, also translation and how to request/provide/auto

Gregor

• translation and localization options for storytelling tool...

  •     user-contributed?

  •     fallback to Google translate

  •     requesting translation

• automatic text summarization via tools such as https://resoomer.com/en/

James 

• been in touch with colleagues in Rwanda to identify who's working with young people with learning differences

• identifying key youth-led organizations

• looking through storytelling tools / showed to some others, putting feedback together and will provide a summary

Julianna

• in the middle of the admin stuff

• not working yet with groups but this month want to get going on first part - develop services and interviews, then travel to each group

• will see Jutta tomorrow in Cartagena with Silvia 

Liam

• solidifying and finalizing details of the contract

• thought of another storytelling use case 

  • The main idea was telling the story of a tree through different seasons. Like a bench with a sign that says "take a picture and send it to this URL" and then see how the spot evolves. 

  • Tree is a basic example. Could be a housing development project "take a picture of what's in front of you and tell me how you feel about it"

  • This idea reminds Alan of something from NYC's public library with photos of buildings

  • calling it Photospotz!

• want to make sure it doesn’t constitute scope creep? or just possible future directions - not to impede or dilute the design process 

  • Alan says not to worry about this, feel free to throw it out there

• will add thoughts/feedback to wiki

Other questions/concerns/thoughts

• Questions about budgets

  • Timeframe? Aiming for the end of this month

  • Jutta has to talk to the Oak Foundation                      

  • Once the budget has been reorganized, we can start signing contracts

• Question from James: If we're in Phase 1, what is Phase 2? What are the timelines?

  • P1 is sept 2017 to sept 2018

  • P2 is after that and involves further work with the youth groups

  • A lot of what we're doing right now is unknown territory so it’s hard to know for sure

  • P2 is projected to go out to December 2019