Plotting Making Journalism That Matters, the Silicon Valley sessions, a place of doing

kara andrade 40:17
basically, we need to create our own space in there

40:42
they have NO young people involved

benjamin melançon 4:44
well we have at least one ally in making the gathering in general a place for *doing* not just discussing

kara andrade 4:45
we do

45:08
we have a few

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it's our responsibility to make it a place of doing

benjamin melançon 4:46
so what have you agreed to do for Densmore or proposed to him so far?

49:57
... but don't let me keep you up! As they say, later today is another day

kara andrade 4:52
I told Densmore we could take charge of helping with:

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getting young people involved

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social networking and online strategies

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recruiting developers and making it less like a conference

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i told him i want to produce a product

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something

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and that we should have three to four tracks

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(1) design

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(2) content

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(3) back-end developing

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(4)

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business dev

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(5) social

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(6)video

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some of these can be combined

benjamin melançon 4:54
awesome. I won't quibble with the counting

kara andrade 4:54
people can choose to develop a product

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or we can develop a core team

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from these tracks

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put them together

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and have them create a product

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that they "own" and have shares in

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and launch

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he really liked this idea

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but could not quite get his head around it

benjamin melançon 4:56
where does the part of deciding what the product is come in? the first step of the gathering, or discussion in advance?

kara andrade 4:57
well

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that's a good practical issue

57:19
perhaps one of the tracks can be product development

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and people who are interested in that side of things

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can be on that track

57:59
we'd use the blog beforehand to have people post ideas

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and then they would be vetted the night they arrive

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one product is decided

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then the 2nd conference day you start developing it

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from start to finish

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until you leave the conference

benjamin melançon 5:02
Nice. (I of course think everyone should help turn the nonprofit http://socialway.com into an independent media platform. There could be local franchises / tie-ins that make a little money. That aside...) Do you feel strongly it ought to be a for-profit product and we really do provide founder's shares in a business created out of the conference?

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Or let this also be decided in advance discussion and on the first day?

kara andrade 5:02
we should decide nothing

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the more open the better

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i say shares

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but if people choose to make it a nonprofit

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then they can still have stakes or ownership

benjamin melançon 5:03
I'm GOOD at deciding nothing! I'm perfect for this!

kara andrade 5:03
but that's up to them

03:20
your socialway idea should be one of the ones we vet out

benjamin melançon 5:03
all right, I'll IM Densmore as soon as he's on

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and I'm on, I'll be away from internet all day today, traveling back to Mass. from my brother's in West Virginia

kara andrade 5:05
I will let him now

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know

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