{"id":1589,"date":"2009-01-26T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2009-01-26T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T15:38:18","slug":"digital-barn-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2009\/01\/26\/digital-barn-raising\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Barn Raising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked to advise on the 2009 Allied Media Conference&#8217;s How-To Track (you can check the 2008 track out <a href=\"http:\/\/2008.alliedmediaconference.org\/program\/track\/20\">here<\/a>) and I&#8217;m trying to think how to approach it.\u00c2\u00a0 Watching teachers recently and thinking about the community organizing that&#8217;s happening here in Bloomington, a lot of the skills I want to know how-to do aren&#8217;t neccessarily technical.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, my goal for this year&#8217;s AMC is to help create a track that not only builds and strengthens community and coalitions around consuming and discussing media but in it&#8217;s actual production &#8211; from editing videos, to making beats, to loading Linux on a server, to hacking together a Drupal module.\u00c2\u00a0 These technical tasks are often done in solitude by a few individuals who have been delegated the task or who hold onto the skills and projects too tightly for more folks to be involved.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always felt excited and empowered by technology, not just in what it can do, but in using and manipulating it.<\/p>\n<p>Comment here if you have anything you&#8217;d like to see in a session at the conference or if you know of folks doing awesome stuff with technology and media to further social justice goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked to advise on the 2009 Allied Media Conference&#8217;s How-To Track (you can check the 2008 track out here) and I&#8217;m trying to think how to approach it.\u00c2\u00a0 Watching teachers recently and thinking about the community organizing that&#8217;s happening here in Bloomington, a lot of the skills I want to know how-to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2009\/01\/26\/digital-barn-raising\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital Barn Raising<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[686,113,687,21292],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amc2009","tag-community","tag-skills","tag-technology","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-pD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}