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August 28, Meeting Notes

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Toronto OneWebDay/Mozilla Service Week Meeting, August 28, 2009

 

Attendees

 

  1. Christopher Wolfe – Social Planning Toronto
  2. Ryan Kelln – Open Everything
  3. Celina Agaton – Us Now – Global Screening Project/Volunteer Toronto
  4. Andy Walker - Tucows/Butterscotch.com
  5. Nanda Casucci Byrne – Chief of Staff – Office of the Lieutenant Gov.
  6. Heather Leson- Tucows
  7. James Koole – Tucows
  8. Mark Surman – Mozilla Foundation
  9. Chelsea Novak – Mozilla Foundation

 

Mark Surman – Mozilla and OneWebDay

  • Mozilla is helping OneWebDay fundraise and will do so Toronto Wide, but are hoping to do something locally here in Toronto

 

Celina Agathon

Us Now – Global Screening Project, Volunteer Toronto

  • Did a pilot screening here in Toronto, had a panel and helped people connect with web 2.0 and the social change part of it and hopefully bring it back to there community
  • Having a screening and launch for Service Week/One Web Day/Us Now
  • Proposing an Us Now screening on OneWebDay

 

Tucows

  • Were involved in OneWebDay last year
  • Had food at work, did some blog posts, people talked about what the Internet meant to them

 

Little Geeks Foundation

  • Serves the need of putting an Internet connected computer into the hands of underprivileged backgrounds in Toronto. 800 computers in the GTA, expanding to Ottawa, supported by BestBuy and TuCows – connecting this activity to OneWebDay

 

  • E-books to first-nation fly in communities - Bringing technology literacy to children in aboriginal first-nation fly-in communities. The socio-economic conditions are poor, literacy levels are 3 to 4 years behind, residential school behaviours, etc.. Augmenting a pre-existing literacy program set up by LtG Bartleman and adding in a digital literacy program. Initiative to put together 20 new systems, ideally netbooks. Creating ebooks to be sent north and create technology hubs.
  • 6000 children without computers in the 28 fly-in communities in the north

 

  • Celina – mentioned Green Solutions – have a school in a box and skids of computers donated to those in need [http://www.revive-d.com/]

 

Open Everything

  • Connecting the arts community, free software community and the tech community

 

Chris - Social Planning Toronto

  • Non-infrastructure planning, trying to help not-for-profits, creating hubs of community wireless with the THP, increasing technology capacity. Another opportunity to evangelize the changes in technology for not-for-profits that can make their work easier and help their client base. Really good stuff in there for socio-economically challenged communities.
  • Also an opportunity to push the City of Toronto on their Open Data promises.

 

 

The Tech Drive Event

 

  • A screening of UsNow, sponsors, dropping off technology for reboot and a party
  • A celebration of the Internet and what we can give back
  • Create and artifact about how they want to make the internet better – make a commitment on video or sms – Maybe shot by Mark McKay form TVO
  • Important to tap into different communities and create an opportunity for other organizations who want to make the web better and connect them with a room full of doers
  • Even just creating awareness of who's trying to help
  • Screening at 6, party at 7 and after work event
  • This is not intended to centralize activities. Have lots of activities throughout the city – have various drop off points

          have a way for people to submit information/photos of what they did throughout the day

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