Node 101 Needs

Lately I have been talking to quite a few people about trying to get some videoblogging centers started.  People ask, "what do you need?".  I'll tell you.

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Comments

[Verdi]

Ha! I love your little extra at the end (I thought it was over). Thanks for doing that Markus.

[Jan]

Can you use three old PC's? Perhaps someone among us can reconstitute them into one box that would be - if not awesome, then - functional.

Great idea.

Brick & mortar.

Who better than Verdi / Hodson / you to get this going.

I will help in what ever way I am able to be sure.

[mariah]

why not use the vlogathon as a way to raise funds for this?? we are struggling to get everyone to get behind one cause - this is it...

im down to help in any way i can.

maybe we can make this a topic for the next flash conference?? get everyone brainstorming. pool our resources. lets get this up and running! with all the talent and experience in the vlogosphere, theres no reason we cant make this a reality.

[Markus Sandy]

Great idea!

I've set up a wiki page for this:

http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/Node_101

[jonny goldstein]

Thanks for breaking it down like this. All these elements are important. This is not cheap...especially in terms of human time and energy.

Another thought, if this is available to the public at no cost (of course someone is paying, but, lets say it's not the users), there has to be some system for regulating access. Free services tend to get swamped fast. So if there is no cost, then there will be rationing of some sort. How could this work?

[jonny goldstein]

Thanks for breaking it down like this. All these elements are important. This is not cheap...especially in terms of human time and energy. And time is $$$.

Another thought, if this is available to the public at no cost (of course someone is paying, but, lets say it's not the users), there has to be some system for regulating access. Free services tend to get swamped fast.

[Markus Sandy]

Hey Jonny, good questions. How about public schools and libraries as a model? (in fact, maybe there is a way to get public libraries involved).

The goal is to have local services where they are needed and of the appropriate size and capacity. Within that, there is a notion of "users" who "sign up" for the services they need. First come, first serve?

Also, I think the priorities should be to helping people who are new to videoblogging and that those who get more advanced through use of the facilities should then give back ad help out the newbies.

Of course, there may always be a struggle for more and better equipment and facilities. That is a natural part of the process.

[schlomo]

Well, I don't have any computers to share, just one able-bodied human.

[renegade]

I love the concept, but the name sounds too geeky and schoolbookish. At first I thought it was a geek conference. I'm afraid it will scare people away.

For me the sharing of information is not the technical stuff or a place, but the power of people coming together to share information.

To make a digital dojo in every city is going to require beaucoup bucks and resources that people don't have. I think that videobloggers that want to teach others can simply tap into already existing media centers, such as public access stations, libraries, schools with media departments, non-profit media literacy programs, etc. Just look online for your local media access center and see how you can plug yourself in.

I think it would be fun to make a mobile production center on wheels, like a bookmobile for vlogging.

[Toma Chaffer]

A beowulf cluster for a FAT rendering farm for that old/new jalopy called h.264 (still rising, imo) - http://www.beowulf.org/overview/faq.html - dunno just a thought... like with those 3 pcs up there? you just throw them together and let 'em think fast together... hm... does xsan do that too?