BWJones's Journal: Slashdot community project (Slashdot Moment in TimE) 5
Koria Desevis started this little project and handed it off to me to run as point as she is going on sabbatical. The idea is that on a specific day, we each individually make a collage of "items" that represent what we do, who we are, or things that are of importance to us during that moment in time which we would then share with other members of the Slashdot community. This Slashdot Moment in TimE (SMITE) project can include "newspaper clippings, summaries of happenings during your day, specific chains of thoughts, accounts of conversations, poetry, pictures drawn during meetings" code written, maps etc...etc...etc... Given that this will also be distributed via the Internet, media of any sort could also be included. Therefore, this project has two potential methods for distribution to the participants/Internet. We could forgo audio and video and package this purely as a
So, I figure the way to do this is to select a SMITE day that will be representative of Slashdotters lives, say Friday, July 15th which is far enough away from the July 4th holiday and it is not a Monday..... I will host whatever representation we decide upon on my server which has been Slashdotted before, so it can handle the bandwidth (T1 line). Anything you feel would be representative of this day for you including photographs, text, audio/video (if people want that option) etc...etc...etc... will be welcome. (All content will be welcome, but please ensure all is legal and representative of who you are and that it represents that moment in time from your life).
To simplify things, I would prefer if you could provide content already in electronic format. If attachments are really big, a link to the source would be nice rather than simply sending me a HUGE attachment in email.
1) email me all electronic attachments (not to exceed 10MB or so per email) to: bryan.jones@m.cc.utah.edu with the subject heading of SMITE AND your Slashdot ID (i.e. SMITE ~cmdrtaco). When I receive them, I will reply with a receipt confirmation. If a confirmation is not received within 24 hours, please try resending as my main campus inbox can hold only so much.
2) If you cannot provide material in an electronic format, any materials (2D or 3D objects) to be physically delivered and scanned or photographed should be mailed to me at:
Bryan William Jones, Ph.D.
Moran Eye Center
Room 3339a
75 N. Medical Dr.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84132
USA
Please ensure that all mailings are contained inside packaging appropriate for a professional workplace. Given that this is a university (and medical school), incoming packages are carefully scrutinized by our mail room and anything that would be inappropriate for that environment will have to be pre arranged through another delivery method. 2D objects can be scanned and 3D objects can be photographed.
If you mail physical content and you would like it back, please say so in a letter to be included with pre-paid packaging along with your shipment.
Finally, let's give everybody a two week timeframe (allowing those from overseas) to get the their materials to me (deadline: July 29th). I will start compiling everything as it is received and hopefully we will have a finished product soon after.
Best regards, and looking forward to this little experiment.
Nice (Score:2)
July 15th is good for me. I think doing the website with downloadable pdf links for those who provide that kind of content is probably the best distribution of labor. I think it would also be interesting to allow those who code to go ahead and just submit their page already marked up. Configure apache for user directories and give everyone ftp access who can make use of such a thing. Make it as colloborative and possible. That will both
Re:Nice (Score:2)
While I really like this idea, the structure of our permissions issues will not allow that sort of thing. (HIPPA compliance issues along with issues of federal security for some of the research I am doing).
I do want to suggest a twist. Limit it to text.
I am open to this, but thought initially that the use of media other than text would allow a sort of fl
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I spent the last four years as a HIPAA Privacy Officer, enough said. What if we get you a uid root account on another server not similarly co-committed?
"I am open to this, but thought initially that the use of media other than text would allow a sort of flexibility not available on Slashdot."
I did n
Re:Nice (Score:2)
Participants as rows, data format as columns.
Require everyone to submit introductory text data, and then whatever else they want, and make it easy to surf the 'columns' of data as desired.
I, for example, am unkeen on Flash stuff, so it would be nice if those whose big thing is Flash cartoons can submit that, but I can easily dodge that content.
Query (Score:1)
If we send stuff to you in electronic form, what format do you want? .doc, .pdf, or something else? And to you need a heads-up if it's over a certain size (say, over a meg) before send?