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

[Hannah Sassaman]

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.

>   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.

>   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
>    
>   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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