Participatory Culture /October 31

some resources for review and discussion

Kaltura - http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/static/about Strayform - http://palabrastranquilas.ucsc.edu/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage

Notes of our meeting Oct 31st and Brief notes of past meeting Oct 24th (lost document)

1. What is the larger Purpose of website?

2. Homework: think about priviledges to the website. Structure access issues: Who sees what? Build a system of priviledges. Describe in detail step by step administration of our workshops. Spec out number of cameras, days, days with camera, how it is going to happen within the context of your site.

3. Compare our editing tool with Kaltura editing tool and Jump Cut?.

4. Our Kaltura account:

login: pculture password:pculture

5. Think about conferences to participate in particular Amsterdam Conference.

6. Next meeting start with discussing user page and the users representation within palabras overall in its relation with the invite to collaborate on a sequence notion and we are going to continue to talk about collaborative editing.

I. How we envision our Home Page:

List of different sites with descriptions and public videos (that they have decided) with an email to ask to be added as sites (Random groups that wanted to be added as sites they can email us), link to a login/password page. (No further access to website) 4 Levels of Access – Individual, Intra site (within site), Inter Site (between sites), Public/World (the world can’t edit)

Options per site: Options such as everyone in my site can edit, everyone in the world can see it. Options per clip: How do I want people to see it/How do I want people to use it - lists that you can click. To decide when you are uploading clip. You can change it in your user page. Options per sequence: Same two lists, to decide when you are saving sequence. You can change it in your user page.

II. Individual user pages:

• User Page: (displayed)
• Access/adjust

User clips with comments User sequences

• Uploader:

Access

• Sequence Save Window:

Access

III. Homepage display of sites:

Do we want to grant the possibility to allow groups to take themselves off the main page. This option can be allowed as a preference.

IV. In our editing tool we need a delete option.

V. Angela’s idea of having temporary access to users to the editor. Just like kaltura.com where they can try out editing tools, not upload their own clips but work with embedded clips that we would put up there.

VI. Last quarter we talked about having each site create their own introductory video.

VII. Collaborative Editing:

• Everyone can log in to Kaltura, but it does not allow for collaborative editing, it saves them at versions.
• Andres suggestion group access to edit collectively –lock each version when is being edited by someone.
• We need versions of timelines that can be saved. We need a way of communicating with other participants. For example Notes and a Note History that will be visitor in the editor.
• Editor page has comments and notes.
• Suggestion: Collaborative non-destructive editing over time, but not real time. With versions saved in order to document process over time.
• Having a save as or save over will be more clear and user friendly and better than having many versions of something
• We are collectively working towards one end. Our project page will allow us to communicate with each other.
• Andres: User creates a sequence, invite other users to edit. Does it become inherently a multi-dictatorship? Add to the user page a Collaborative Sequence link. In the Editor: Add a tab called collaboration. The tab will show you the notes saved per version. (If you want we could also a link to a browser that will show you different versions).

Ideas for our paper:

• Whose gaze we are trying to reproduced?
• Argument around Interpolation and marginalized communities being usually defined by other people. Close access to palabras can help ensure that people represent themselves.
• What is the role of individuals not affiliated to our site in the website.
• Who sees what and when?
• Private, Private/Public, Public
• Individuals? What are their privileges?

Last Meeting:

• In Palabras people can upload audio, video, and text.
• Text option should be added/different than comments. http://www.deviantart.com/
• New Browser comment form, hard to see – letter should be darker or the background

should be darker with white letters.

• Book-marking link in every clip page that anyone can use to get to it. It is different from tagging because you affect that clip with tagging. Also, being able to favoritize clips in order to get back to things as a user.
• Bookmark will let you back to the user page.
• In the user page each user can have a list of favorites that is maintained by palabras.
• The clips in the Home Page should have a link or at least the site where they are coming from.