PUBLIC MEDIA CAMP - Facilitating the evolution of public broadcast media
We're hosting a BarCamp to provide a collaborative space that explores public media's relevance and vision for the future. This is a three day event designed as a solutions playground for public media innovation.
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Who should attend?
Public Radio Enthusiasts and Volunteers
Show Programmers/Content Producers
New Media Visioneers
Technologists
Radio and New Media Geeks
Arts and Cultural Leaders
Bloggers (current and future)
Business Model Innovators
What is it?
We've modeled the event after the POST method (http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2007/12/the-post-method.html) presented in Groundswell:
- People & Organization (Day 1)
- Strategy (Day 2)
- Technology (Day 3)
Day 1 - Customer/Community Day (Bay Area/Santa Cruz pubmedia listeners + pubmedia folks) Invites the local community to participate in the future of public media conversation. The goal will be to gain a richer understanding of how public media can better serve the needs of the community and how we can leverage current and emerging technologies.
Day 2 - Industry Day (Pubmedia folks, producers, station managers, hosts, etc) brings together public media professionals from around the country to explore solutions for the future viability and strength of public media. The open conference format will provide an arena to leverage the expertise of the participants and share the collective knowledge of the group to forward the evolution and sustainability of public media.
Day 3 - Technology Day (pubmedia + geeks) Hackathon day for programmers to develop a relevant pubmedia project or widget. Participants will learn from others as they go, but the focus is not on instruction. The outcome of the day would be to create working software.
Where?
November 14, 15 & 16
Santa Cruz, CA
Why Santa Cruz?
Quiddities, a Santa Cruz CA web development firm, received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for their project RadioEngage.
RadioEngage will provide a next generation open source solution for public radio stations. The platform will be developed by engineers at Quiddities for Santa Cruz local public radio station KUSP and made available for other public radio stations to implement.
KUSP serves the Central Coast of California and is excited to embrace new open source technologies to better serve its community.