PROPOSAL FOR THE 10 YEAR WSF CELEBRATION
THe main idea is to
divide a large room space ( or a constructed structure) in a way it
becomes a passage/itinerary in which the public find different screens
each of one that shows in loop 1/2/3 hours of material that has to be
organized in contents.
which contents?
my proposal is:
screenA : voices of
common people taken at different social forums around the world,
spontaneous testimonies of partecipants of wsf, like the interviews
that Museo de Pessoas proposed (the contribution of the 20 interviews
could find expression here)
screenB: political/intellectual voices of wsf , wsf history and process
screenC: space for Social movements
screenD: free space for videos that come last minute from smaller indipendent groups
screenE: wsf thematic stories
spaceF with 8/12 pc linked to video and other documents archive database for people's free consultation
PROPOSAL FOR VIDEO/DOCUMENTATION ARCHIVE
All
groups that produce video ( but all sorts of wsf documentation can be
included) should start mapping and share their lists of available
material , and also start loading their material in one and only wsf
database ( for video is supposed to be wsftv.net),
this way all material are collected in one container and is available
to all at once ( also for the spaceF consultation material for
10yearswsf) . Importance must be given to titolation of the material.
My proposal is to find/decide few main macro areas of contents (max
10?) which are words that together with date+place+event where the
material has been taken+ kind of material (video, txt, audio, still
image) + language of transaltion, are going to be the tags for
extracting the contents of interest. Each of these elements are to be
catalogued with a specific rule that has to be given, like to fill in
all its parts in a pre ordinated form ( the wsftv one has to be worked
on).
OTHER RANDOM IDEAS:
About text material: skype chats are
also documentents of wsf process, but they also are too confusing to be
used as documents as such. I remeber some month ago Mallory proposed a
new tool for chatting wich i think could be a good tool if available to
development for our needs.
About Open.net: as you know (Isaid this many times) i find open.net
quite unfriendly to use since it is very difficult to find things in
there, also because there is not an organized directory/catalogue of
contents. each time i spend too much time surfing on that site. For us
to work I find excellent easy to use tools such as mailing lists and
chats. If reorganized, i think open.net could be the archive of text documents of wsf process.
thats all for now dear folks
ciao
bettina