(SJRK) April 14, 2018 Partners Meeting Notes

Present:

• Alan

• Avtar

• Colin

• Dana

• Gregor

• James

• Juliana (at the IDRC! :))

• Liam

• Michelle

Website co-design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r5_-nDUS3C8AuW-9bFVy_02wYuSuifcjNvdEDfgokNo/edit?usp=sharing

• Brief summary updates of work for Activity page on website

• https://sojustrepairit.org/activity.html

• Activities page may be text-heavy. Do we want to add images or graphics?

• Co-design process for website

• Adding descriptions of projects in Spanish as well

• Aim to have the site updated for May 1st, so initial updates ready for April 25th

• Discussing website codesign document linked above

• Have different visual themes to choose from

• People could contribute their own visual themes

• Karisma has designer working on ideas

• https://twitter.com/sjrkprojectCTG

• Similar logo: https://dayofpink.org/

• https://www.google.ca/search?q=day+of+pink&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5nO-v6sHaAhVp5oMKHXyCBTYQ_AUICigB&biw=1800&bih=851

• Do in a synchronous way (webinars) so not waiting for folks to provide ideas

• Ways we could do it remotely:

• E.g. Mozilla x-ray goggles type of tool - hack on the code on the site

• Grabs html and css from a page and lets you edit/remix

Current design and what we want to do going forward

• Yellow → danger

• Colour - diversity

• Welcoming, feeling included, a warm community

• Like the under-construction idea

• Idea of repair

• Say “Welcome”

• Inviting participation in more obvious way

• Storytelling tool could be main call to action - ask people to engage with it

• Focus on idea of call to action

• Show some of the stories - pre-populate

• Echoing different contexts, stakeholders, groups, that each partner is working on/with

• Photos from different communities, videos

• Focus on storytelling theme - how the site is structured and the language -

• Drop into 1st person? Everyone on project speaking in own voice

• Tell each of our own stories about how we are involved in the project

• “Once upon a time…”

• Storytelling visuals

• https://www.google.ca/search?q=storytelling&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6sKDZ7cHaAhVr2IMKHcuZDG0Q_AUICigB&biw=1800&bih=1032

• Visuals around things/story coming to life

• How we engage people’s senses

• Crackling fire

• Oral storytelling

• Incorporate audio and video in simple ways on the site

• Convey multi-modality

• Agency that made entire site from youtube videos?

• To get away from text-heavy or static images…

• could be done with very short clips from the contexts in which we are working - http://recrearinternational.org/

• Different versions of the site that work with high and low bandwidth

• Get a good idea of what the project is about in the first page/fold

• Have option to go to more media-heavy section of the site

• Potentially add to UIO: option to remove/hide bandwidth-heavy elements

• Progressive enhancement - start with bare bones site, allow turning on of CSS, images, etc

• A project that does something similar for script files: https://noscript.net/

• To the young people in Colombia “Social Justice” sounds like something from the government - called it “the planet is the school” instead

• Sounds academic, institutional, theoretical

• There is no social justice now - difficult to talk about with youth in school etc

• Site as tool to influence government? Policy? How it is used by people in power?

• Adaptive

Meeting with Juliana

• 2 cities - Fresno (60 students) - 12 coming to Medellin?

• 2 schools?

• 3 day workshop in Medellin

• Many students will be first time travelling to Medellin

• Working with Julietta (coordinator in Medellin)

• Want to make it fun

• Thursday/Fri/Sat (morning)

• What are we doing at IDRC

• Hoping Silvia can join us in Medellin - can we allot some funds to support that? - check with Iris

• Issue of the land, territory -

• Auto-repair shop, beauty shop, eco-farm, tourism

• Supporting them to stay in their town and do something there (Fresno)

• Created a list of questions for them for their visits - now have that material

• Start a series of creative workshops - working with artists to draw, write, take photos - working with info from visits - tell the story

• Workshops start next Friday

• One workshop in Medellin with girls from Festival of the Gyal(adults)

• Using the youth from Fresno project as behind the festival

• Using Whats App

• Avianca flight direct from Toronto-Bogota

• Bogota - Medellin 40 min flight

• Tour around Medellin

• Go to Fresno? Mon/Tues

• Airbnb - something near Platohedro?

• Plan some activities from the guide

• Illustrations that the co-op students made too https://github.com/fluid-lab/oer-inclusive-design/tree/master/pictures

• Can we do some art activities together?

• A “presentation” (in English and Spanish) with lots of images (illustrations), demos,

• Discovery Cats!

• Storytelling tool - even if it’s not ready, find a way to encourage them to try it, and allow collection of other content in another way

• They are creating videos already

• An offline version of the storytelling tool? Not sure yet how to do it

• Internet access at Platohedro is good

• Local network in Fresno -- using it to upload videos now

• http://fresnodigital.info/OJC_MIREYA/index.html

• How to make the local network more appealing to the young folks

• Could they chat with each other?

• Would be cool to be able to set up a local network at IDRC to try things out

• Network runs on Microsoft only?

• Hector has sent along some CDs and a flash drive with stuff on them, they’ll only work on Windows, the older the better