[FM Discuss] Booki nominated for Transmediale Open Web Award

[adam]

apparently we have until friday...I just spoke to the tm director.

ah man...timing...ugh

any heros out there? want to ride out to the sunset on a white horse
holding the open web award and with the credits rolling over the top -
"Booki video produced by..."

either that or is there anyone that wants to paint my house? ;)


anyone?

adam


On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 19:29 +1300, John Curwood wrote:
> You're right, what we need is someone who can devote a fair bit of time
> to this, unfortunately I'm in the middle of School Holidays, so my spare
> time is pretty much zilch for the next week and a half.
> 
> Do we have much video available of participants at Book Sprints? I think
> dynamic footage of people working in a book-sprint environment is the
> best way to open a create an impression in 10 seconds.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> John
>  
> On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 08:00 +0200, adam wrote:
> > yeah pretty cool i rekin!
> > 
> > so i guess the next step is to work out how to make it palatable to
> > voters...I havent heard from the drumbeat or tm peoples about the voting
> > process so i guess oct 1 isnt going to be the start. what we need is a 1
> > min (2 min max) video showing what booki does. i am sure a jury can
> > understand booki but throwing it into the public needs another
> > approach...
> > 
> > the voter has to be convinced in about 10 secs else they dont even watch
> > the rest....
> > 
> > potential topics might be :
> > 1. book sprints - rapid development
> > 2. collaborative narrative development - collaborative futures
> > 3. bi-directional text support
> > 4. electronic books and paper books from 1 source
> > 5. its free as in freedom 
> > 6. its going against the flow of the publishing industry
> > 7. social network meets publishing
> > 
> > i dont the most important of these themes (and possibly there are
> > more)...how do we get a short hard hitting video out of this?
> > 
> > anyone willing to help put one together quick. as i happens I am moving
> > house and renovating this week so I cant do much until tuesday
> > 
> > also, we should _definitely_ subtitle the video in as many languages as
> > possible once we have the video online
> > 
> > 
> > adam
> > 
> > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 21:17 -0400, Michael Mandiberg wrote:
> > > Booki is nominated for the Transmediale Open Web Award!
> > > 
> > > http://www.transmediale.de/en/awards2011
> > > 
> > > Congratulations all around.
> > > 
> > > I haven't seen this on the Discuss list (though I am on digest and  
> > > only catch 3/4 of the emails...)
> > > 
> > > Pretty awesome acknowledgment of the work being done by FM.
> > > 
> > > And well done Adam on putting together a successful application  
> > > package (not a small feat!)
> > > 
> > > Looks like the voting starts October 1st on Mozilla Drumbeat. We  
> > > should strategize and gear up for a big outreach if we want to win the  
> > > vote.
> > > 
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