Projects/Open Shakespeare/Meetings

= Meetings =

3rd June 2010
1. Announce end-of-year Open Shakepeare Meetup - Get Involved with the Digital Bard!
 * James H-S: to draft and send to faculty + grad list then forward to open-literature for further circulation

2. Doodle for summer dates for online meetups (skype/etherpad/irc) over the summer.
 * Saturdays - over the summer
 * Assigned: Jack Belloli

3. IE brokenness -- make this clear (explain IE lameness)
 * JB

4. Multiple introductions
 * Definitely agreed that we should have multiple introductions

5. Word of the day/week
 * Create spreadsheet with 52 entries - word, who, when (released), when done
 * James: do this
 * JH: Write to people saying: volunteer for a word!
 * JB: Blog post about word of the day and volunteering blog.okfn.org

5. (RP) Comment link on word of the day

6. Costly at the moment learning how to do stuff!
 * Lottie: improve instructions
 * Lottie: style guide

7. Wiki page: list all possible sources (open/closed) of shakespeare folios images and/or texts

8. (Lottie) List out issues with existing open shakespeare edition

8. Photos of open shakespeare edition + Blog post about it
 * Propose a subscription - 100 copies

9. Blog post text and technology

10. School engagement
 * User guide for annotation: http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Open_Shakepeare/Guide/
 * Blurb -- may already have
 * Jack: already has a contact who we could send this to
 * Lottie: Sally/Anthony ...

27th Feb 2010
TODO:
 * correct links (our_resource was a mistake)
 * categories for blog posts
 * discuss moving introductions into wordpress ...
 * NS: putting annotator tickets in shakespeare trac?

13th Feb 2010
EMMA ideas section - sorry to attribute this to you without asking, Emma, but I thought your section was looking a little bare...but then again, if you have lots of other commitments, don't worry too much about doing this)
 * Obtain from Varsity, the pictures for the poster and for the flyer
 * Edit plays
 * Look into printing costs, etc. for Open Shakespeare Edition (see big

COLETTE open-shakespeare@okfn.org add 'wotw' tag
 * Make Committee members admins for the fbook group
 * Add picture to fbook group, and change email address from gmail to
 * Upload fbook blurb to the blog
 * Write the next two Words of the Week and publish them, making sure to
 * Edit plays
 * Message out on TSR
 * Work on poster, using image from Varsity
 * Write intro for Merchant of Venice

JAMES
 * Write a blog post advertising the Varsity article, and the facebook group
 * Write blog post on technology
 * Watch the emails
 * Edit plays
 * Write intro for Richard II

RUFUS send the link to everyone else so they can get annotating all the necessary info such as links to blog and wiki
 * Fix annotation bug so that annotations stay with the edition; then
 * Change 'Hamlet [tr Guizot]' to 'Hamlet [French, tr. Guizot]'
 * Create 'Get Involved' and 'Team' sections on website, the latter with
 * Put new logo on to site
 * Put the minutes on the wiki - I'm afraid I don't have the time right now!

JACK prototype round as an attachment to an email/attachment to wiki - must be done quickly so we can distribute this week
 * Prepare flyers: use logo, keep it simple, A5 paper size, send the
 * Talk to Tim to get some publicity
 * Edit plays
 * Write intros for Merry Wives, and Pericles

BIG IDEAS Shakespeare' - using online tools? playlist of a short play, comic variations on favourite Shakespeare scene, rendition of favourite play in 2mins for best gloss competition for cover art, play will be either Rome and Juliet, Hamlet, or Midsummer Night's Dream
 * Collaborative writing event to work on 'An Introduction to
 * Marathon Shakespeare: sequential reading of Shakespeare's sonnets
 * Shakespeare quiz
 * Audition speech selection evening
 * Video-blogging
 * Use facebook and youtube presence to issue challenges, e.g video
 * Use twitter/blog to invite glossing questions, or start a competition
 * Get an Open Knowledge Shakespeare printed: research cost, run a

30th Jan 2010

 * Met with varsity
 * Demo'd new features
 * Outreach planning

ACTIONS
Colette:
 * Write About + Get Involved blurb
 * What, Why, ...
 * http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Open_Shakespeare/Blurb
 * http://blog.openshakespeare.org/about/
 * Facebook group
 * Student room post
 * Email Russell group using James' list
 * Play intros

Jack:
 * Leaflet based on Colette's effort and existing blurb
 * Write blog post about latest translations
 * Word of the week post
 * Continue work on Shakespeare life and time article
 * Spread word amongst first years

James:
 * Send email addresses to Colette
 * Play intros
 * Work on Guizot translation
 * Email watch

Rufus:
 * More work on anno software -- especially send round act i of hamlet
 * New front page
 * Fix bugs (e.g. intro not formatted)
 * Help with word of the week

21st Nov 2009

 * Publicity 1st week of next term
 * Varsity piece for first week of term by Colette

7th Nov 2009

 * Annotation
 * This will probably not be before the Xmas holidays
 * It is our biggest selling point
 * An announcement should be put on the site, something like "Annotation goes live 30th January!" to attract interest
 * BLOG
 * Needs updating: do we all have access? DONE
 * Should have the same template as the rest of the site
 * Could be displayed on front page of website, but only in brief, headline form
 * SITE LAYOUT
 * All committee members should be able to edit the site
 * There should be less text on the welcome page
 * The same template should be used for every page (although not necessary if we want Google Forms - could just embed logo)
 * A 'Get Involved Button' should be added, leading to the following sequence (click 'Get Involved!' - list of jobs appears - click chosen job - fill out tailored form - one member of committee then replies with instructions)
 * GMAIL
 * Never give out gmail address, use "open-shakespeare@okfn.org" or your own with a CC to it.
 * James will look after the gmail account from now until 14/11/09,
 * Colette from 15/11/09 until the next meeting (21/11/09)
 * INTRODUCTIONS
 * Go team. Good introductions.
 * When doing introductions, why not make use of Open Shakespeare's capabilities? (e.g. search)
 * Check your text at the same time you do the introduction, especially well-known points of textual confusion

TASKS

 * Colette
 * Prepare a Varsity article?
 * Contact Cambridge Authors team
 * Contact friend in UCL
 * Look after the Gmail from15/11/09 to 21/11/09
 * Write introductions
 * Upload introductions
 * James
 * Contact TSR
 * Write to universities
 * Look after Gmail until 15/11/09
 * Write introduction
 * Upload introductions
 * Share Harness Essay
 * Jack
 * Contact old teacher doing a PhD
 * TCS article?
 * Write introductions
 * Emma
 * Find out about, make use of NUS mailing lists
 * Contact friend at Kenyon Literary review
 * Write articles
 * Rufus
 * Add the Guizot's (french) translations of Shakespeare to the site, and perhaps other languages?

24th October 2009

 * First introductions done (well-done all contributors) and we have started uploading them to the site:
 * http://www.openshakespeare.org/work/info/measure_for_measure
 * http://www.openshakespeare.org/work/info/hamlet
 * Contacting international student community (James H-S)
 * brief intro to the project necessary - use one from squash?
 * give James access to blog
 * shaksper mailing list
 * multi-introductions (many intros to a text not just one)
 * Project email address
 * open-shakespeare@okfn.org -> okfn.shakespeare@gmail.com
 * open-shakespeare-coord@okfn.org -> okfn.shakespeare+coord@gmail.com
 * Recruiting coding volunteers - (James H-S)
 * Worth contacting CS faculty and elsewhere
 * Sponsorship -- whether in kind or monetary
 * also partnerships
 * identify people/organizations/foundations which would be interested
 * news updates on front page - via twitter/identi.ca
 * something fun and changeable - word of the day
 * Dedicated get involved page
 * Write copy - James
 * Annotations are high priority esp. for summer term 2010 exegesis revision
 * Make people aware of the facilities

4th October 2009
In person meeting.


 * Present: rgrp, colette, nick

Things to work on:


 * Summaries and introductions:
 * 1 para intro
 * plot synopsis
 * critical introduction
 * List of editions:
 * Is our one good?
 * Are there any good PD scholarly editions
 * What are the good source editions (e.g. Folio and quarto)
 * Annotation
 * Tagging and glossing
 * List of contributors and amount of contribution

26th September 2009
irc meetup with work on glosses etc


 * Present: rgrp, jude

19th July 2009
irc meetup with work on glosses etc


 * present: rgrp, colette

2.1. Introduction and brief summaries for each of Shakespeare's works.
These will be automatically added to the relevant pages on http://www.openshakespeare.org/. One possibility for source material is the Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition entry (which is in the Public Domain) which we have online at 

2.2 Annotation of the Hamlet text with critical notes and topic tagging.
The first Act of this is now up on co-ment at: 

2.3. (Associatedly) Producing a "glosses" for unusual words and figures of speech.
I separate this from the pure annotation as it will probably be useful to store this glosess in a separate spreadsheet so we can reuse them (automatically) for other shakespeare texts. I suggest that for this purpose we use a shared google spreadsheet which I have created at:



Which Text?
Decision: use Moby html version (same as gutenberg it seems)


 * Moby version (good markup!): HTML - PDF (nicer)
 * Gutenberg normal: http://www.openshakespeare.org/material/view/hamlet_gut
 * Gutenberg folio: http://www.openshakespeare.org/material/view/hamlet_gut_f
 * Once we've decided which text we want we can put it on co-ment

Summary of Meeting: 2009-06-16
Focus on Hamlet


 * Tagging, glossing and critical notes for Hamlet.
 * ACTION: Rufus to send link to co-ment to everyone
 * Quality of the PD texts we are using
 * ACTION: Rufus to send Nika (+ everyone else) link to current text
 * Current texts are at:
 * What is it that e.g. drama schools want for audition samples?
 * ACTION: Colette to look around on websites
 * Produce a summary
 * Britannica entry: /Britannica
 * Produce a critical introduction
 * Ideas for irreverent images/covers (perhaps from 18 or 19th century sources)
 * Bespoke editions + user created scrap books
 * Select existing bits of text and create a new one
 * Per scene line numbers are needed for print edition