Hi, I’m Stilgherrian. You may know me from my personal website or my recent writing in Crikey. Or you may know me from my previous media life in Adelaide. You may know me in other ways. Or maybe you don’t know me at all. Whatever. Hello. Let me tell you what we’re doing here…
Posts in the “Announcements” category are about the operation of the Topic 9 website itself.
As I said in my introduction, I haven’t decided exactly what I’m doing with this website. But I have decided how I’ll figure that out.
I’m spending the next couple of days sorting out my “paying” business Prussia.Net. By the weekend I’ll know how much time I can allocate to this site in the fortnight before the Summit.
Since I am, after all, an Internet and media geek I should probably use those skills in some way. Lo and behold! There just happens to be a gathering of geeks in Sydney this weekend.
I’ll (un)organise a session at BarCampSydney 3 on Sunday to plan out what I’ll do — and what anyone who wants to join me will do. However I’ve already had a few thoughts…
A lot of my media experience is in broadcasting, and I’ve done a lot of outside broadcasts, so I’m toying with the idea of podcasting or streaming media of some sort. Last night I played with some very cool software tools which turn a Mac into a live TV studio, for instance, so technically this isn’t complicated. It’s all just a matter of organisation…
The key issues, as I see them this morning, are:
- What can we do that’s (1) sufficiently different from mainstream media coverage and other existing activities that it’s worthwhile and (2) makes use of our skills as a group? Whoever this group is.
- For everyone who wants to be involved, how much time can they contribute and what are their skills?
- What will we need to do this, in terms of the additional skills which we don’t have, hardware, software, bandwidth, transport, accommodation and whatever else we’ll need?
- Who will we get to pay for it?
- What else?
Remember, the focus is the future of Australia’s Governance. While the other nine subject areas are important too, my specific focus for this project is on governance and democracy. However that doesn’t mean that other teams can’t do similar projects for the other subject areas.
I’m not sure what my next steps are, but I daresay that’ll emerge over the next 48 hours.
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