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Inspired by Aurelia Moser's Worklog

List of current projects

  • bklynCONNECT: a community-driven free wireless network and associated technology training program
  • Nudge: A system that gets people to return books to the library without levying fines and creating debt in the community
  • User Research on Catalog and App: interviews and analysis of user experience of BPL catalog and app
  • Curriculum Development for Bklyn Library Technology Trainings: Collaboratively develop an open curriculum for training library staff and patrons
  • Unlucky Peach: investigative podcast about the downfall of the best food magazine ever made

Calendar

Month Date What
January 13 Brownsville DiscoTech Codesign Day
January 20 Brownsville DiscoTech
Jan-Feb 28-2 Mozilla Workweek @ SF
March 5-9 Internet Freedom Festival @ Valencia, Spain
March 16 Allied Media Conference session proposal due
March 18-27 5 focus groups for Nudge
March 23 Deadline for Implementation and Evaluation sections of BklynConnect Playbook
March 30 Deadline for final insights from focus groups to UVA and Ideas 42
April 4 BCJC moves into 50 Belmont
April 30 Final report due to funder for Nudge project
May 10-11 Mozilla Global Sprint
June 11-13 Fellow Offboarding and final presentation
June 14-17 Allied Media Conference @ Detroit, MI
June 30 Official last day of Open Web Fellowship

Helpful links

Worklog

3/22/18

  • sent Jose a rundown of availability for Governor's Island trip
  • coordinated with Lauren Rochford about sending reminders to Saturday focus group participants
  • created lesson plan for Tech Lab
  • facilitated tech lab

3/23/18

  • emailed Jose for more details on Governor's Island trip

3/24/18

  • Facilitated an interview and a focus group for Nudge with Lauren Rochford at New Lots library
  • messaged Selvon and Mike about who is doing what work, and about potential transcription budget

3/26/18

  • Went with Christian to get his wisdom teeth removed
  • Spoke with Ryan Gerety about the BCJC workshop she's facilitating
  • Followed up with Jose about Governor's Island Field Trip
  • Cancelled teen focus group tomorrow
  • Followed up with Mike and Selvon to figure out who is doing analysis of focus group data

3/27/18

  • Spoke with Mark Daly to confirm career finding workshop at BCJC tomorrow
  • Send detailed message about potential AMC trip to Chloe, who checked with James Brodick of BCJC
  • Wrote Implementation and Evaluation sections of playbook (then wrote implementation again)
  • Printed out and read several anarchist texts
  • Confirmed that I would guest speak at ADI about participatory technology design

3/28/18

  • Met with Ben Castleman, Vivien Catalano, Nick Higgins, David Woloch, Mike Fieni, and Selvon about Nudge behavioral diagnosis
  • Cancelled meeting with Ideas42
  • Hosted Mark Daly as guest speaker at BCJC (but only Jahtiek came 🙃)
  • followed up with Aurelia about Mozilla funding youth to go to Detroit

3/29/18

  • paid my credit card bill
  • Met with other Brownsville Live facilitators about June 2nd Be on Belmont block party, and teaching challenges
  • Ryan Gerety came to do workshop on routers, network design, and community organizing strategies

3/30/18

  • Met with Chad and Flormary about teaching PNK workshops

3/31/18

  • Bought a secondhand jean jacket and pink cardigan w/ Christian
  • Had a mimosa and ate biscuits w/ mushroom gravy

4/1/18

  • Got a palm tree, a kitchen island, and two lil plants. Repotted some things.
  • Took an hour to read 78 pages of This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.

4/2/18

  • Left comments on communications diagnosis slide deck
  • Thanked Nate Mullen for sending the Guide to Humanizing Schooling

to-do today

  • send thank you note to Mark Daly
  • find out how to pay speakers
  • distribute needs assessments
  • write user interview guides

to-do

  • schedule guest speakers
  • Read about anarchism from the texts Chaparro sent
  • Call manhattan theater club about theater tickets while yr mom is visiting (plus, can we get two more at $30 for St. Joan for michael and ???)
  • taxes
  • interview Brette Warshaw
  • interview Walter Green
  • Needs assessments
    • distribute needs assessments to team, branches, partners, etc.
  • Make a spreadsheet of all the technology education the library offers to anyone
  • Figure out what the steps are for giving someone an honorarium
    • send forms to Ryan
    • send forms to Harlo

to-maybe-do

  • Send Alexis Calvas your hidden history zine. Her address is 69 Dennetts Road London SE15 5LF.
  • Go to Recurse Center
  • Snoop on a NYPL TechConnect class
  • Snoop on a NYPL Project_<code> class