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

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