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Date: 30th April, 2020
Participants: Team
Date: 29th April, 2020
Participants: Team
TBA
Date: 16th April, 2020
Participants: Team with Nikki
Day: 15th April, 2020
Participants: Team
Bhanu started re. remote collaboration with Suresh and other Mirzapur peers
Storycorps and the listening project seems like a nice model to emulate during this situation. They also have guides and tutorials for DIY models. More on the DIY and courses here https://diy.storycorps.org/courses/storycorps-diy-fundamental-course/
I skimmed through the course they cover all aspects from starting the project, hiring staff, Themes, training and facilitation so on.
For mirzapur use case, i propose a recruiting campaign, to identify interespted participants and volunteers to conduct interviews and organize listening parties around specific themes.
Dinesh suggests that i give homework to team, so that we see how this fits our use.
Shalini updates on the meeting with Myna, Prachi and Gita - the main outcome of this conversation seems that they all need a platform to collaborate and communicate to move forward.
bhanu's mind voice while i had suggested earlier on git issue system or trello kind of tools can be useful, am not sure of what it means here.
Dinesh update re. conversation with priyanka, got suggestions on if a instagram like audio - visual newsletter can be of use.
Tiktok is opensource, may be we look into and explore how this works.
Polar annotation app re. small discussion
Gopi and Girish are back from the field campaign in Turvekere Tumkur with Redcross and back at farm.
Rajeshwari and Ramya making some masks, slow due to issues like needles broke so on
Shalini - Shared audio recordings of her one on one interview, Whatsapp compress files and ignore file metadata. sanket received file on telegram, upon ffprobing he found all metadata is preserved by telegram.
bhanu thinks
thats a good insight to carry forward when we consider on incoming channels to receive audios or other files for archiving purposes
Athithya has some problem with her mike and reports on chat that she war working on responsive css.
tonight along with Vignesh should be able to focus on papad backend. while vignesh was busy with his office work, not much progressed.
Date: 14th April, 2020
Participant part1: Bhanu, Dinesh, Prasoon, Shalini, Dinesh
Re. Specere - Milli
From 16:45 to 18:00
More on this in the working document
part 2 from 18:00 to 19:30
Participants: Bhanu, Dinesh, Naveen & Padmini (Design Beku), Prasoon, Shalini
we started with a update on the previous call re. specere
put it out there. Padmini pointed out on calling out the purpose and motivations of the proejct and also to some links like the Listening project and …
Naveen added in reference to Bidar DLL and he looks the primary importance now to be on ground relief
Padmini updated little on what Design Beku has been doing re. covid, the info. posters for GoK and making them available in many languages and other needs of public awareness and precautions for pregnant women, breast feeding, other vulnerable people. working with swasthi on Tattle to build something to gather trending fake news and do a bulletin of sorts to reach out to people to educate re. fake news. following this we had a lengthy conversations on motivations, politics and cuture of fake news and how mainstream is pushing it, what may work or not.
wish i had recorded that part
Date: 13th April, 2020
Participants: Team
Shalini editing audio recordings, to edit required fragments. also working with emery on the Syncthing.
Need to write call for collaboration and volunteers re. our ongoing projects for writing, coding, design, co-ordination, be a friend on phone, masks campaign and other general needs that we come across our networks / groups. some themes,
Some of the apps that we are using right now to organize our own work in ways that we didnt see needed when we were working under one roof.
Date: 10th April, 2020
Participants: Bhau, Dinesh, Shalini, Venkat
Re: Milli Specere conversations
duration: 30 mins
Given the situations contextualize this project in the pandemic usecase and can we handle audio as the primary media candidate to work on annotations for milli specere.
Venkat, shared his ideas re. architecture. more notes in the working doc.
Further with Team,
Dinesh suggest that team spend some time on using nextcloud and if plugins available to add and manage metadata. also decided that we can have our nextcloud instance at files.janastu.org
Date: 9th April, 2020
Participants: Team
Shalini follow up with Suresh and Mirzapur peers.
Challenges in interviewing / co-ordination
Dinesh suggested,
That definitely only shalini cant be speaking with all of them, over time we need to get collaborators to help with having conversations and follow up conversations, figuring out community need in covid situation. Myna is available to help with mentoring needs for the young girls group, and we should also put out word (call) for all these collaborations we need.
Bhanu adds,
Definitely we need to get more people to involve, but also to keep the continuity of conversations we need a process. In that how do we document these calls? Though there is a audio recording which is for re-visiting the conversation for a clarity later, the primary thing would be to maintain call log and notes. Just like how i used to do in my previous life working in call centres. Every call we receive will be associated to an account / contract on a CRM, from where we get basic details. Every associate who speaks with the account holder will have to document the call in a pre-decided template.
our template for customer service was called C (customer / identity), S (statement / problem), R (resolution / solution)
while that fits for a call centre we need to come up with some simple format in such a way that it will make our life easy in going through these conversations. Also allow collaborators to join based on availability. much needed when we have crunch in resources.
Vignesh had a few questions on papad backend re. how to upload audio files, we decide to go ahead with alpha release assuming audio is already a public url. backend to catch much steam next week
Date 8th April, 2020
Participants: team + Gita + Preeti - (minus) Vignesh
Shalini following up with urmila and suresh, and how to get started with asking for collaboration on here follow ups.
Re. DA report, how to proceed with this covid 19 situation. Phone / Virtual campaigns and study group kinda activitties
Re. Burst the hate with Gita
Reply to venkat's email
Date:7th April, 2020
Participant: team
Discussion agenda
Updated comments at agenda
Along, we also discussed about the masks for pourakarmikas project, That Megha is working on illustrations.
Date: 6th April, 2020
Participants: with Shreya and Gita
Was on bad connection and unable to join for most part of the call
Date: 4th April, 2020
Participants:
Update: No Call - No Show
backlog: added update on using zotero on mobile
Date: 3rd April, 2020
Participants: Athithya, Bhanu, Emery, Mani, Shalini, Vignesh
Dinesh: re. message on current group about zotero, it's quite not clear or there's lot to do to just bookmark a URL, did a little bit of guiding, but couldnt proceed without my password
Shalini: Spoke to Suresh and Urmila, who was angry earlier coz we didnt visit them, but Suresh clarified how it was better that Dinesh and Shalini left from there at the right time. Further, checked how is the situation with the lockdown, and it seems that there is a atmosphere of fear, Hindu / muslim (religious) color by the media seemed to have worked along with Xenophobia re. chinese virus and other such sentiments are popular. Suresh coordinating for ensuring the relief reaches the most needed. Though Urmila and team need to use the audio tools, it's going slow suresh also thinks a one time in person training may be needed. was helping Shreyas install nextcloud and mount the storage on raids, they were able too do it with sqlite3 DB but was not able to configure MySQL DB. Work on BaaApp android didnt move forward, however migration from eclipse was successful, not setting live debug mode with connected phone. Need Emery's help with syncthing
Emery: added shalini's device, they were able to start sync with Emery's machine in office to Shalini's machine at her home. GUI is nice, but there's semantic problem with concepts such as device, folder so on.. which is not quite clear.
Dinesh: To shalini, Did you speak with Dolly and Mallesh - they are working on migrant issues
Shalini: Doesn't have Dolly's number
Dinesh: that can be fixed. Also did you give any money to Suresh
Shalini: Yes, Also NCBS work should start, we received the money but seems venkat thinks theres still some accounting issues, need to clarify.
Dinesh: where is prasoon, lets see if hes OK, and what hes up to
Bhanu: will message on Signal
Dinesh: Re. Girish's Wix site namdu1radio.com though girish enabled share, the urls are not to the actual audio but to a HTML page, thinking out loud here
Vignesh: Database or CSV for Papad, since he's not so familiar with raspberry pi
All: in quorum re. this CSV store is a good start, start with documenting code architecture.
Vignesh: will share gitlab url, need to fork it to Janastu, also what license to add
Dinesh and Emery: start with restrictive and go on with easing it, decided on GPL V3
Athithya: working on Responsive design, finished navigation
Bhanu: Still waiting for Documentation, start coding only after writing please
Athithya: Question re. User sign in when adding tags
Bhanu: since this will be group / community activity, we will have the admin manage users and their phone numbers as identitity. no sign in required, we can see how to authenticate
Dinesh: yes, no sign in required but we should be able to moderate users, such as blocking spam / mischievous users. Also you may authenticate with a passcode. Setup a passcode in the admin backend, which will be saved on a file or memory. when request to POST / PUT client will ask to provide the passcode. Server will verify / validate and update or reject
Mani: Murali called re. cubbon park map design project, he sent the missing details that was awaited, now will be able to finish this work by end of day today. Also thinking about starting a user experience research project for papad to document the design system in place for this application. will share a set of questions on a pad to get team's comments.
Dinesh: Girish coordinating with someone in Redcross going to takr his van to different villages and replaying the messages of officials, Emery working on if Girish can sync while he is away for centralizing data collection if any. Gopi is sending pictures on Map, and specifically to mani be able to work with the mask design group in making the guide like the knitting guides, so that can we printed and shared. Later we can see on what else is need re. usage, re-use and so on.
Date: 2nd April, 2020
participants: Athithya, Bhanu, Emery, Mani, Sanketh, Shalini
Discussion on how the lockdown will be released, Sanketh mentions that it could be phased and later came across PM conference call with all chief ministers and suggesting a phased release, but states should ensure no overcrowding (density) after release as well.
Sanketh also brought up ClimateSchool by GSS, Prasanna answering questions re. Sacred economy and people centric solutions, providing state benefits for such productions where machine is minimum and people are maximum.
Updates,
Bhanu: finished the eng to kannada translation for Zainab, had missed out a portion of the article, which i only noticed later. Apart from that, i am doing some DIY smoking tools like water bong, and coconut leaf smoker. Put my first batch of 1 litre grape juice for fermenting. Helping shalini and mani find poster r. covid19 in different indian languages.
Emery: Not much Janastu related work, he's caught up with the C language toolchain on one of his projects.
Bhanu: Not that my wine making and other DIY is janastu related either, but still goes on the doc
Date: 01 st April, 2020
Participants: Team with Jhanavi
The Masks video, and initiating a personalized mask making campaign for delivering to pourakarmikas
Jhanavi joined in from Barcelona spain, she was updating on covid status in Spain, Germany and italy. And to initiate mask making as a local activity to help people.
Dinesh: $1000 USD donation from Dinesh's friend - $500 for purakarmikas and $500 for Migrant labours. Dinesh suggesting if we can make homemade re-usable masks for pourakarmikas.
Jhanavi: will speak to some people, mentions inscriptions Vinay, call scheduled for next day.
Emery update re. sync thing that he has setup in office on 3 machines that is managing the sync services for the mesh radio project
Shalini follow ups with Suresh re mumble and other things and Shreyas re. nextcloud
Dinesh follow up with Shridhar - re. trucks taking produce to kerala
Disucssion re internet shutdown and alternative networking opportunities
Digital Sovereignity, resilience -
Date: 31st March, 2020
Participants: Athithya, Bhanu, Dinesh, Mani, Sanketh, Shalini, Shreyas, Vignesh, Emery
Shreyas: Don't think just generating more information will solve anything, while there is lot of fake news doing rounds in many languages, just making posters won't counter that. we need a careful campaign to address a lot of issues on ground, with also most of civil society and volunteers also in confusions.
re. the archiving activity, how do we convey consent and IP of the content collected, also that most people who will talk now will be anticipating / expecting some help and how do we be responsible for that?
tbd: it's too early to start the archiving related backend work, instead focus should be on naturally building relationships so as to get comfortable in having conversations as compared to a journalistic / surveying stories
we shouldn't be worrying about Scale at this point, while the most important is to get started to do something on ground
In any case, there will various formats of data that we can expect through our incoming channels (whatsapp, telegram, mastodon, zotero, hypothesis) including video, audio, images, pdf, webpages(links), datasets (csv, tsv, json / api), just text as comment or note.
Date: 30th March, 2020
Participants: Ananth, Athithya, Bhanu, Dinesh, Mani, Sanketh, Shalini, Venkat, Vignesh, Emery
2Q
who is it for
who creates it - managing and curating etc
whose material goes in to it
Omeka based structure
format of material: not an archive on the outset
secondary material: links to websites, documents, donation, ..
oral histories - in the extent one can - funnel back the quick audio repos
office orders keep changing
ways to crawl data from websites
anant:
what is worth holding on to for the next 5 years
ask a group of 20-50 people - ask them what is worth holding on to
local activism, research. doctors with stories to tell.
geographic?
using fb data to see where they are headed and where they are going
FB graph of people movement
datameet and anandology
critics, analysis, ..
Links to datameet project here
http://projects.datameet.org/covid19/
anant: friend on delhi govt committee, aditi in bangalore is tracking
diff platform companies who come on when others go out
another guy tracking how the word quarantine is translated and
interpreted in diff languages.
producing archival material.
anant
langston huges- dreams deferred
collaborators
Also everybody will start using existing tools like Zotero, Hypothesis, nextcloud / google drive, Spreadsheets, google forms, Mastodon / Tusky, Mumble depending upon ones comfort.
A team which monitors all incoming feeds will help with curating and structuring (still pretty vague)
Date: 28th March, 2020
Participants: Team with shreyas
To Be Added
Date: 27th March, 2020
Participants:
To Be Added
Date: 26th March, 2020
Participants: Arun, Bhanu, Dinesh, Emery, Sanketh, Shalini, Vignesh
Shalini: Coordinating with Suresh, he had asked for help re. current situation also coordinating with Mama (Shepherd from belgaum) re awareness
Bhanu: shared the Followsheep server specs with Arun, which was just a API design doc, and Dinesh and shalini added feedback and suggestion, which is added here Follow sheep server backend revamp
Vignesh intros to the team currently a sys admin, his interest to contribute Django and python skills, so may be could look at papad architecture and help. working documentation link here https://pad.riseup.net/p/papadDoc
Date: 25th March, 2020
Participants: Arun, Bhanu, Dinesh, Emery, Sanketh, Shalini
Conversation and updates from Dinesh and Shalini's field visit, link to minutes W4P-JAM - Minutes of meeting
Society of American Archivists Crisis Resource Kit https://www2.archivists.org/advocacy/documenting-in-times-of-crisis-a-resource-kit
from SAA @Servelots Dinesh re. your q on twitter archiving, adding link to twitter ok, but losing tweet is possible. that case using a command line tool, digitalcollecting.lib.virginia.edu/toolkit/docs/social-media/ is a python lib u can save contents of tweets to json file.
University of Virginia Digital Collection Toolkit for Crises
http://digitalcollecting.lib.virginia.edu/toolkit/
Documenting Your Community’s Experience of COVID-19: A Resource List
Archivists adding what their respective 'units' are doing. Mostly university collection projects.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSYGg9o9MEuSAalYEOD8FZjKNJsnX07cKIkv4P6QiJk/edit
Web page recording
https://webrecorder.io/
A collection of causes during COVID lockdown
blrcauses
A collection of posters and other covid 19 awareness material in different indian languages
https://www.google.com/collections/s/list/b4L2dzqjQLei2TLHk4R0Gw/-CoUYa2KzMY
Crawled dataset from different official sources like ICMR MoHFW and available as JSON API
http://projects.datameet.org/covid19/
University info collection methods
Stanford U. for COVID-19 related queries to its students.
https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1MupLIiG4qUcL5j
update: Zotero bookmarklet for mobile and desktop browsers https://www.zotero.org/support/mobile
Zotero will also take a snapshot of the webpage and save the cache under the attachments tab. here is a guide on how to add bookmarklet in phone browser https://android.stackexchange.com/a/210701Magic wand
Add url
Auto metadata
website snapshot
Above instruction is for web app, but better always to use bookmarklet, coz requests made via bookmarklet will save site snapshot as well. see below ss