Open Knowledge Festival/meeting20120511

=screen.io meeting= 11 May 2012, 8:45

Participants: Kai Kuikkaniemi (screen.io), Petri Kola, Juha Huuskonen, Inka Kosonen, Juan Hernandez

=MEMO=

Three important OKfest communication needs:

1. Memos from sessions
Proposal: each session would have its own dedicated Etherpad page. This page can be used before, during and after the event for questions & gathering notes.


 * To be checked: can OKFN Etherpad handle large amount of simultaneous editors?

2. List of participants (and their status updates)
Screen.io could contain the list of all participants - name + organisation + other information. This information is found from one web address (like http://www.screen.io/okfest). Each participant can update their own info by logging in with their pin-code. The pin-code is given to participants when they register.

The screen.io main interface will also contain a list of all the sessions of the day. By clicking a session you can participate in the discussion related to that session.

The participants can also update their current location / plan for they day ('going to MAKE fablab today' - 'at the keynote session at INSPIRE').

3. Making sessions more interactive
With screen.io we can make the presentations / panel discussions more interactive. According to Kai, panel discussions work best with screen.io.

A basic screen.io functionality that we can use is that people can write comments and questions for everyone to see. In addition we can use other core features of screen.io: polls and question forms for people to answer. These questions should be planned together with the presenters of the session.

Proposal: let's focus on making the sessions in INSPIRE auditorium (Sampo Hall) more interactive? Using screen.io in presentations requires some preparation, and we will not have a lot of resources for this.

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We also discussed how to make the OKfest logo react to activities during OKfest (a proposal by Inka & Juan).

Proposal:

Behind the logo we can have an invisible, 2-dimensional grid that is made up of the 10+ OKfest keywords (the Topic Streams). We follow how much these keywords are used in Twitter + screen.io and draw the current status (we connect the most active topics with lines. This abstract visualization is displayed on the entry page of OKfest website - if one clicks the logo, one can see the visualization with the keywords + links to Twitter feeds / screen.io discussions.

To be programmed with Javascript + D3? And open source project at github?

The programme would store the information, so that in the end we could see an animation of whole OKfest week.

Other ideas:


 * RFID tags: too clumsy to use? Forum Virium had an event where Helsinki public transport cards (which have an RFID tag inside) were used as ID-cards (scanned with Nokia phones).
 * Connecting to Etherpad as well (measuring the activities in Etherpad), possible or not?
 * Folder to share anything: we could establish a folder where all participants can upload whatever files they want with others... might be interesting ;)