this is a site to get some thoughts together to hammer out the creation of alive on earth.

this is a place hold for thoughts and ideas that are being bounced around for a 21st century non profit that will help create community leaders who can navigate 21st century tools.

Vision Statement / Mission: Alive on Earth distributes local stories from around the world via video and the internet. We provide communities who are under-served or might otherwise be passive subjects of international news coverage, with access to equipment, training, and a platform to tell their stories to the world in a frame of their own choosing.

Bylaws:

• Openness / Open Source & Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial
• (Fill in the blank)

Goals:

• Monitoring the state of video advocacy and community journalism.
• Community journalism strategic framework development.
• Curriculum enhancement for community content creation & open-source video tools.
• Advancing technology tools through:
  • Open-source evangelism
  • Volunteer translation tools
• Organizational capacity building & community problem solving.
• Organizational consulting for external funding & sustanablity.

Plan / Roadmap:

• Year 1 – establishing 501c3 status, making AiB & AiM independently sustainable by getting them to edit content, translate and post (AoE will provide advisory, distribution and financial support), ascertaining the state of video advocacy (by reviewing AiB, Video Volunteers, Witness, Political Campaigns), curriculum development for software editing and content creation (use Luck of Seven as sample content), initiate open source framework conversation for volunteer translation tools
• Year 2 – curriculum experimentation and translation, expand programs to include south-east asia & north america.

Programs

Community Video Content & "Alive in Series"

State of Video Advocacy

Open Source Video Tools Advocacy

Strategic Framework Consulting

Unconferences & CopyCamp

Curriculum Development, Content

Curriculum Development, Tools

Volunteer Translation Tools

Potential partners:

witness, video volunteers, tactical technology collective, blip.tv, youtube, media cow, knight foundation, kiva, craigslist foundation, eyebeam, mccarther foundation, ford foundation, liberty hill fund (npr funders), PCF/Miro, pointer institute, war and peace

Fiscal Sponsor:

Scribe (Video group in phily), witness, video volunteers, tactical technology collective, PCF

Donation / Fundrasing Resources

• http://ideablob.com/
• http://chipin.com
• http://sproutbuilder.com/friendsofsprout/ - sister project of chipin

Participants:

• Brian Conelly < brianc@smallworldnews.tv >
• Rose Regina-Lawrence < little_duckie@riseup.net & roseregina.lawrence@temple.edu >
• Noel Hidalgo < noel@noneck.org >
• David Cohn < dcohn1@gmail.com >

Communication Information:

• google email list "alive on earth" -
  • Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/alive-on-earth
  • Group email address alive-on-earth@googlegroups.com

Noel's initial thoughts...

polish training manuals for creating a monthly video magazine and weekly video news clips. establish framework within one urban youth community by use material gathered from the luck of seven trip to build a weekly blog that documents people, places and concepts of the 21st century. this vlog will be used as a basis to explain Alive on Earth's values and developing projects... a film will be created to showcase the community's skills, and establish global community participation.

work with currently established courseware that teaches urban youth to create a video magazine that will address their issues. this courseware should be universally adaptable to any culture and should strive to use off the shelf open source applications. first starting in the Americas with urban youth, this program will branch out to other urban communities (initial consideration - london / paris muslim communities, palestinian refugees in cairo/egypt, young technology teachers in cambodia).

initial thoughts that have yet to be reincorporated

why

with the growing popularity of peer to peer video production and online video magazines, alive on earth will learn, teach and propagate lessons learned from the globe.

what

Case Study #1 - this case study will examine two organizations who use video as their primary means of moving social dialogue to influence change.

Case Study #2 - this case study will examine the best practices of producing video for the internet and understanding traditional media outlets. (potential countries, United States, India, Egypt, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Brazil)

Textbook - How to make production grade television shows for no profit organizations.

Create - Expand the "alive in" series to XXX.