Project 01 February 16 – 20 Kampung Halaman

Kampung Halaman Technical Details

DAY 1

Monday Feb 16, 2009 – Purchasing Server and basic install/set-up

• 10:30 - All arrive Kampung Halaman

• 11:00 - Check (MoU and ToRs) and discuss any issues

• 12:00 - Go purchase computer (Lach/Nova/Mamat)

• 14:30 - Come back to KH and begin setting up computer – install Ubuntu.

• Lach/Mamat/IVAA/Combine - Begin plumi set up with KH, IVAA and Combine IT people.
• Nova (if not needed for install)
  • Audience/Aims/Goals discussion
  • video compression
  • preparing materials for the archive (inc. metadata) based on discussions/assessment of use cases - http://www.messageinabox.tacticaltech.org/publishingchecklist

• 17:30 - Install group evaluation
• 17:45 - Everyone evaluation/feedback, plan for tomorrow
• 18:00 - End

DAY 2

Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 – Continuing set up/templates customizations and skinning

• 11:00 - Indytube - introduce and install.

• 13:00 - Lunch

• 13:30 - design/skinning

• 16:00 - template customisation

• 17:45 - Evaluation/feedback, plan for tomorrow.

• 18:00 - End

* Nova translating or if not needed to continue with workshops re-compression/metadata/licensing etc.
* If compression is done, content people can be compressing archive materials for upload on day 3

DAY 3

Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009 - publishing content, metadata, compression.

• 11:00 - networking set up/documentation

• 13:00 - lunch

• 14:00 - Intro to the archive:

• DOCUMENTATION FOR VISTORS:
• How to - access the archive by using the organisations computers connected to the LAN.
• How to connect their own computer to the LAN via cable or wireless.
• How to browsing the archive, view a flash video preview of the video and rapidly copy any file to USB device, phone and computer, or burn them to DVD/CD.
• Publishing to the archive
• Moderating content/users etc.
• Take feedback on things that don't work/could be improved etc.

• 17:45 - Evaluation/feedback, plan for tomorrow

• 18:00 - End

DAY 4

Thursday, Feb 19, 2009 – downloading/uploading How To etc.

* This will probably need to be modified given some of this Nova will have gone over, we're unable to know how much though

• 11:00 - Intro: Encoding, converting video into appropriate formats.

• compressing videos for the archive and EM.org, understanding codecs/containers etc.
• Get started with Handbrake practical ´how to' for compressing

• 13:00 - Lunch

• 14:00 - Discussing Open Content Licensing and Creative Commons (is this needed? KH organised a forum about CC and prob the most up to it group in Indo re-CC) (notes added below)

• Metadata discussion – what is it, how does it work, how do they want metadata to work in the archive. Eg. Types of videos – genres and topics- discuss appropriate content, in general and possible categories. http://www.messageinabox.tacticaltech.org/publishingchecklist

• 15.30 - Tea

• 16:00

• Uploading into the archive/EM.org
• Embedding EM.org videos into KH website.
• Using KH rss feed from EM.org (blogs/mail clients/etc.)
• Intro to Miro

• 17:45 - Evaluation of what has been done to date/needs to be done-recovered, clarified day 5.

• 18:00 - End

DAY 5

Friday, Feb 20, 2009

* Revisit this mid-week and revise

• 11:00 - Brainstorm circle and sharing of possible plans for getting people to bring videos in.

• Continue with hands on: tech dev/content upload/compression
• Other site features – tagging, workspaces, author page etc.

• 13:00 - Lunch

• 14:00

• Continue with hands on: tech dev/content upload/compression

• 17:00 - Evaluation and wrap up, steps from here?

• End - beer and makan!

Key Content Based Skills to Transfer

Due to the nature of technical work (time required can often be very difficult to predict) when the non-install based parts of the archive building can happen exactly is hard to predict. These however are the key elements to get across in order for people to be able to begin work on building the archive content.

• video delivery strategy/audience/aims/goals
• compression
• metadata
• licensing - creative commons etc.
• using the archive - uploading/downloading/admin/copying - mobiles/usb/cd/dvd etc.

Other notes

• CC

Get people to give examples – of one concrete instance of how they would go about Licensing their video. Discuss how the Creative Commons, is to help `you' (the `Producer') to keep control of `your' work discuss the differences and implications of and betweeen, CC licenses, i.e. "non-commercial" prohibit use for any purpose, "no-derivatives" licenses prohibit modification, and the CC Sampling License Attribution, NonCommercial etc. Important to discuss how Non-free copyrighted material cannot be freely incorporated into one's work no matter what license one choses. Experimental, radical art and activism that does not play nice with third-party copyrights and trademarks can't be legally released and Used under whatever license anyway. Its work should rather - and explicitly - be released into the public domain.