Aggregated Citizen News Network (ACNN)
Ideas:
- centralized domain name
- subdomains used for new disasters, locations, etc (need to standardize)
- design accompanies mainstream media sources (streaming video, audio, feeds), as well as a standardized method of streaming our own types of content
- process of organizing task-force teams should be documented including how to grant access to publish
- build a first rev quickly, possibly using tools like Deki Wiki from MindTouch
Standards:
What we need:
Strictly speaking, the needs reflect what it takes to create a web site which would enable citizen journalists, programmers, and others to publish media quickly and easily during crisis periods
Needed to create this site:
- system administrators
- web hosts with major bandwidth (what about load balancing?)
- designers and usability experts
- programmers
People who will be involved (ie, "users" or the citizen journalists):
- graphic designers
- videographers
- podcasters
- google maps mashup experts (gmaps is very cumbersome, perhaps a realtime flash app with layered vector diagrams updated to the minute with zoom-capability? [taylor])
- writers
- photographers
- programmers (doesn't matter the expertise, it would be used)
What we have:
Resources/People:
Please add your name, email, and what you can provide to the bottom of this list
Nate Ritter, nate [at] perfectspace [dot] com
- hosting
- domain names
- PHP/MySql
- project management, process flow
Lee Fuhr, lee [at] gmail [dot] com
- interaction design
- some graphic design
- thinking :)
Tola Oguntoyinbo, tola [at] sonecast [dot] net
- strategy, process
Derek Payton, derek [dot] payton [at] gmail [dot] com
- Python (Django), PHP, MySQL, SQLite
- Hosting (can maybe get a good deal on a dedicated w/ static IP through work)
- Server Admin. Experience (Debian/Debian-based (Ubuntu) distro's)
- LightTPD Experience
- Taylor Neilson, tneilson [at] cstv [dot] com / taylor [at] e-nlight [dot] us / FireStormSD [dot] com
- stradegy, infrastructure, cisco programming, systems administration, high-bandwidth models, load-balancing, high-storage management SAN, project management, 7 years experience.
- currently has several dedicated servers & 100mbit/10mbit pipes with terabytes of storage.
- Macromedia Flash+Actionscript 5 years
- Photoshop/Graphic Design 7 years
- Web interface incl. apps/graphics/programming
- HTML, CSS, XHTML, w3C Standardization, FlashComm, PHP, ASP, Javascript, BASH Scripting, TCL, 3D Modeling, C+, UI, AI, Mobile data, etc..