October Archives MeetUp

Who?

• Kampung Halaman - Anggi, Cecilia
• IVAA - Pitra, Farah, Melissa, Fahmi
• Combine - Isnu, Hendra
• Ruangrupa - Oomleo, Imal.
• EngageMedia - Vik, Andrew

What?

• A 2 day meet up of the those involved in the archives project.

Why?

• To maintain the momentum of the project, do more skill sharing and build the networking of the groups.

Where?

• Kedai Kebun

When?

• October 7/8.

Agenda

Wednesday

10.30 - 1pm

• Intros/Welcomes
• Outline of the Plan for the next 2 days and process - hands on, peer to peer learning, directed by participants
• Updates - Each project updates on where their archive is at
  • What are your biggest challenges? What are you biggest needs?
• Expectation Check - what do you want out of the 2 days. Add to stickies.
• Collectively rework the agenda for the two days
• Begin work on selected topic

1pm - 2pm - Lunch

2pm - 4pm

• Workshop session

4.00 - 4.30 - Tea/coffee

4.30 - 5.45pm

• Workshop session

5.45 - 6pm

• Checkins/wrap up
• Plan for tomorrow
• Discuss where to go for dinner tomorrow

Thursday

10.30 - 1pm

• Workshop session

1pm - 2pm - Lunch

2pm - 4pm

• Workshop session

4.00 - 4.30 - Tea/coffee

4.30 - 5.45pm

• Workshop session

5.45 - 6pm

• Checkins/wrap up
• Where to from here
• Dinner

Agenda Ideas

• discussing how the archives are going, reports from the different groups. What are the needs? What ways forward for the project.
• Creation of Site Management Documentation
  • site administration
• translation of documentation
• translation of Plumi/Plone
• enhance the design of the installations
• sharing content between the archives
• lab sessions
• looking more deeply at local area networks
• more populating of the archives with content
• backups
• cloud computing?
• metadata modification
• indytube - upgrading resolution
  • add .dat in indytube conf file
• HD expansion (what happens when yr HD runs out of space)
• stats
• templating
• plan for February camp
• sharing resources and cross promotion
• how to get people using the system, promotion!
• mobiles
• FTP to EngageMedia
• Digital Archiving theory - discussion around the nature of archiving, could Pitra report back on what she did in the US?

Report Backs

KH

• Successes
  • can make a smaller size for the video that can make lots of video storage and have it catagorized
  • easy to upload a lot of videos in 1 day
  • knowledge of how to publish online

• Challenges
  • takes a lot of time to get the depot set up
  • need a lot of technical resources
  • bandwidth
  • no traction with the university, wanted to make it at the university library
  • changed priorities - less technology and make sure it works for the user

• Wants
  • need to be able to share quickly
  • how to maintain
  • people to help maintain
  • sharing content/knowledge
  • restarting indytube
  • category translation
  • Indonesian customisation

IVAA

• have three sections to the online archive: accessed at http://ivaa-online.org/
• can see the video on the online archive
• need to encourage people to add their content to IVAA archive as well as youtube
• would happily help to share content with KH
• encourage people to come to
• need to change the behavioral approach
• don't have statistics

• Needs*
• backups
• need more technies
• more documentation
• improve accessibility
• developing a strategic plan of everything that needs doing
• general techie who could be shared

• Other Ideas*
• facilitate more cooperation and networking, including promotion
• step by step understanding of everyone's organisation and what kind of networking can be done
• translation
• metadata customisation
• dealing with content online
• disk management

Combine

• currently provide plumi/plone for their beneficiaries, dont produce so much video
• upload to video kombinasi - online/offiline - http://video.kombinasi.net
• looking at how will they use plumi/plone with other applications

• Challenges*
• internet in indonesia is slow
• want a mobile phone interface
• not enough video
• lacking an editor to get content

• Outcomes*

- documentation in bahasa to make it easier to manage - documention of skinning - skinning/templating - plone/plumi translation

Ruangrupa

Challenges

- categorizing the video - promotion - tech support - people new to linux - HD problems - need more support in curating and compression

Needs - Documentation - improve templating to make it more accessible - need to change the concept of the database - adding products