[Imc-africa] wsf : a few questions for radio

[terna gyuse]

Hola Fun Peace

hope you're well. i woulda spoken up sooner re radio, but felt like your
questions have more to do with our technical/internet capacity - which i
know nothing about - and the schedule of workshops - which is still coming
together.

but let me throw some thoughts out there
to add to what Hannah's just posted



On 1/9/07, Hannah Sassaman <hannahjs at prometheusradio.org> wrote:
>
> hi there -- here are my thoughts on these questions.  perhaps other
> people could jump in!  andy, john, or fabian may have more accurate
> answers.  terna may also have some things to add, or zoe or daniellle or
> steph or more...
>
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:22:25PM +0000, Fun Peace wrote:
> > a few questions:
> >
> >   1-timezone of kenya, related to GMT
>
> i believe nairobi, kenya is 3 hours ahead of GMT -- and i believe
> nairobi is 8 hours ahead of eastern standard time on the east coast of
> the USA.


Kenya is UTC + 3

>   2- streams:
> >   what is expected:
>
> this is going to depend on a few things, including 1)  reliable internet
> for an ongoing stream, 2)  what the attendees of the IMC convergence are
> able to do/choose to do based on the logistics on the ground.  there are
> a lot of questions still, and we'll only be able to know what is
> possible in terms of building out a stream once more of us are there in
> the house in karen, and we have a sense of the work that is possible and
> that people want to execute.
>
> live streams from the world social forum would be great, but are
> difficult to commit to when we don't even know which forums folks want
> to attend, and what capabilities the machines we are bringing will have
> at the WSF site.
>
> prometheus was able to get a few old computers loaned for audio editing
> and potentially for streaming, and folks like josh marcus, who have
> prior experience setting up streams, will be attending too.  but it's a
> lot more likely that these will be running from the site in karen.
>
> many people with skills in audio editing and 'podcasting' are arriving
> onsite in the next week, so i do expect that there will be interviewing,
> audio editing, and production of interesting and amazing content.  if
> people attend the world social forum, collect audio, and bring it back
> to the convergence center there will be a chance that we can make daily
> highlights.
>
> in terms of whether or not the stream can be live 24 hours -- i'd say
> that it isn't too likely (thought i may be wrong) but to have a regular
> stream that people can listen to around the world is an amazing goal and
> can only serve to deepen the relationships between the african IMCs and
> global allies.


maybe take up the question of streaming from the WSF venue itself with the
WSF organisers - the imc convergence is independent of the WSF, so our
limitations and unknowns around internet capacity don't apply to the Forum
itself.

can someone send FunPeace the email for that tech guy we were talking to
earlier about maybe getting wired up through the WSF?


>   c - 2 way capabilitity with nodes outside being able to
> >   "participate"
>
> i've seen streams like this set up in the past, where audio from other
> places could be dropped into/syndicated into another stream, but a linux
> expert would have to respond to this one.
>
> >   d - nodes outside in communication with each other, still part of
> >   and within the "wsf" framework, ie - various local assemblies in one
> >   connected radio streamed discussion : a possible "where is indymedia
> >   today, where is it going..."
>
> would this be a better conversation to have in scype, and then to try to
> record for later streaming?
>
> >   e - sreaming earlier recorded "talks" so that the channel has stuff
> >   on 24 hours
> >




i am Assistant Producer for Free Speech Radio News, and we'll have two
people covering the WSF. we haven't figured out how much audio we are likely
to produce each day, but i'll let you know as soon as we do.

depending on how much portable recording gear is available to the
imc-convergence, and how it's distributed to different
training/workshops/projects, the FSRN people could probably pair up with
folks from Kisumu/Nairobi who're new to radio and capture lots of raw audio
to upload - then folks from all over can slice, dice and caramelise.
(speaking before i've talked this over with Danielle or Norman, mind)



>   3- languages, im supposing mostly in english, will there be others,
> >   is there many local dialects in naorobi
>
> there will be many languages in the roster of attendees at the
> IMC-africa convergence space, but another person will have to answer
> this particular questions!

>   4- main digital communication space while forum is on, imc-kenya, a
> >   blog within the WSF structure, other
>
> it would be fantastic for audio content, photos, blogs/other writing, to
> be posted at kenya.indymedia.org/news -- if the internet connectivity is
> reliable and there are enough machines then there will be a lot of
> chance to populate that page.  is posting on the newswire working okay?
>
> with solidarity and love,
> hannah s.
> prometheusradioproject
>
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