Alan, Dana, Colin, Gregor, James, Julianna, Liam, Michelle

Budgets

• Have got numbers

• Jutta is going to talk to Oak about them and we'll move forward as soon as we can

• The contract with Colombia will be signed in September, but they can backdate the period it was signed for (this is happening for TIG)

• Is there anything anyone else can do to support that aspect?

  • Mainly in IDRC's hands
    
    

Design crit

• Looked at the wireframes

• Had a very good discussion about story prompts

  • How do we prompt

  • How much structure do we provide

  • Who are the targets of the tool

• 1: youth with learning differences

• 2: youth organizations, advocacy groups, people who want to make sure change is effected. Tool will be used for evidence-based advocacy to influence service providers and policy makers and influence debate about these subjects

• 3: leaders, politicians, community leaders, school board members, etc. People who can influence a change in the lives of these young people.

Relating stories to other stories

i.e. impact and follow-up stories —> after this story happened, then this happened - or after I read this story, then I did this —> how to connect them?

Use something more sophisticated than just tagging to connect them?

• it brings in more people to share because they see that it has impact

• you might have a list of relationships - this story was inspired by this story

• it can grow out of control but does allow a simple relationship structure that gives you a lot of freedom in terms of what you implement - enter your own relationship 

• stories stand in a web of relationships - how to show this in UI - (see privacy mapping web DA)

• Because we have different users of this platform, the tagging system might be used by some users and not others.

• The stories don't just stand by themselves, they stand in relationship with other stories and other contexts

  • well one would be to have a prompt after reading a story (inspired to contribute your own experience?)

  • another way would be once you have added a story, the machines could draw linkages w the content and say : we found similar themes across these other stories, would you like to connect them?

  • "This story made me feel..."

• How do we capture this in a design?

• What would the data modeling of this look like?

• Perhaps organized around the date

  • Related to the zeitgeist

  • Some sort of news event, stories related to that

  • We can store the date

• what things could we prompt a user to include? date automatically ok, but otherwise need to ask user’s consent - things we think we could tag/apply to the story - location (how specific?), device? 

• What can we detect from browser settings (with consent)?

  • Could add an additional dimension of interesting metadata

• even just "word clouding" the content could show some interesting patterns

• capturing metadata - don’t want to capture too much if we don’t know what we’ll do with it

"Our Story" vs. "My Story", the Collective Story

• Juli - what about a common story - “Our Story” - does it have to be individual?

  • we definitely want to be able to include and encourage common stories / groups

• there is a kind of cultural chauvinism - we are designing in English - “my” story, I am the author/owner/emphasis on individual - even if we don’t require author id

• what about “our voices”, “my voice” … ? "view", "opinion"

• or a phrase like "storytelling" or "narrative" in another language

• “voice” in Swahili

• account, chronicle, history, description, record, report,

• also do we want to emphasize the ability to add your story or to engage with stories or both?

• This is Story - Thistory - We-story

• Tale is also an interesting phrase and the connection w Tails (which communicate how species are feeling about something)

• do we want the 'brand' to indicate the SJRK element? we are looking at international audiences right?

• Justice Just Storyjust, Social Justory 

• story-cache - has this kinda catching element too

• "story" usually means narrative which has more structure than we may want

• an acronym may also be useful in this process

• Collective authoring:

  • Google Docs - collaboration angle

  • What if we could have 10~20 people working on the same story at the same time (colocated or distributed geographically)

  • Too broad a scope?

  • That way they could create the "story of us"

  • Alan and Gregor explored Rich Text Editors, some of which support collaborative editing

  • Challenging to implement, but interesting to try!

• ways of shifting from individual pronouns and collective pronouns

• collective authorship and community authorship

• working with communities - the voice of “we” - things that we built together

• how could we provide an authoring tool that could be collective? a way for multiple, co-located people working on a story at the same time

• Liam - part of me also thinks an "empty signifier' which recalls and connects to elements of voice, storytelling etc might be useful here

• then it doesnt mean anything in particular but illicits feelings collective, collaborative, narrative etc

• otherwise the brand may be prescriptive and set a box that directs people towards one way of engaging

• something vague (more vague than “justice” or “peace”) “experience” “voice” maybe privileges those who can speak?

• something more abstract or taken from other languages, e.g. like “covo” for collective voice

• rich text editors that allow for collaborative editing between different systems.

• a first-order, multi-collaborative tool

• similar to google docs

• - create a word map that we can develop over time - spend some time in this branding space

• Think about whether there are things, other dimensions that are outside of the storytelling too

  • What if we had to 180 out of this direction, what other directions could we go in?
    
    

DEEP and SJRK Face to Face Meetings

• what should we do to prepare for DEEP and the SJRK meeting??

• solicit partners’ thoughts on what we want to discuss/do? design , co-design

• talk about inclusive design ? an overview? how does it fit into what we’re doing…

• next partner meeting we could discuss what the Toronto meeting day can look like - co-design the session! Dana will send out an email beforehand.

• we need to make sure that we have remote access so others can join us for parts of it if they want.