[Imc-tech] Re: IMC, & a void...

[Paul Riismandel]

Also, two WEFT volunteers have stepped forward to make a commitment to 
an entertainment calendar -- one is willing to make a pretty major 
commitment.

--Paul

Paul Riismandel wrote:

> WEFT and the public i are each working on different aspects of a 
> calendar. Sandra is heading up an effort to put together a community 
> calendar, and WEFT a music/entertainment calendar.  There is some 
> basic coordination between both orgs. 
> The biggest problem is that it is like pulling teeth from a rhino to 
> get everyone (bands, groups, venues, etc) to use a web interface and 
> put data in themselves, or to even fax in data.  It's still a paper 
> organization thing.
>
> A small tech company in town has made an initial offer to WEFT to 
> provide a tech backend for inputting this data and turning it into 
> multiple pretty outputs -- web, paper, on-air reads, etc. 
> --Paul
>
>
>
> Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, rosemary braun wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Hey Sascha -- this is probably an old idea, but:
>>>
>>> There's two problems in CU right now.  One is that, with the demise of
>>> the CityView, there is no good weekly comprehensive calendar of events.
>>> The other is that there's a whole heap of people out there who aren't
>>> going to the IMC website or picking up the public-i because, well,
>>> it's those crazy hippie kids and what could I possibly have in common
>>> with them?
>>>
>>> I think that if the IMC produced such a comprehensive calendar, it'd 
>>> solve
>>> the first problem and might draw more people in who won't come 
>>> otherwise.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> yes, absolutely -- we've talked at length about getting a better 
>> calendar.
>> i've been negotiating with some university folks about using one of
>> theirs, but they haven't decided whether to make the code open source 
>> (and
>> i suspect it'll take the university another 3-years to come to a 
>> decision
>> on that).
>>
>>  
>>
>>> The webified community calendar is a start, but the problem with that
>>> is that it relies on the artists/venues to populate it and so it's not
>>> terribly comprehensive.  If the various 
>>> venues/galleries/theatres/cinemas
>>> could be convinced to fax in a schedule of their events for the week,
>>> or if someone could get on the phone with them and write it all down,
>>> and if some poor sod could take the time to compile them, that'd be 
>>> a lot
>>> more useful to the person who's bored on a Friday night.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> a large group of former cu-cityview staff are meeting regularly to 
>> discuss
>> options.  i think there are two situations -- the first is that there
>> needs to be a weekly calendar; the second is that there should be a
>> central on-line place to look for shows info.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Print would be nice, too.  I know that the IMC doesn't have the 
>>> resources
>>> to churn out a public-i on a weekly basis, but how about a flier, with
>>> just a schedule grid for music (like the old Octopus one) on the front,
>>> and Art/Theatre/Movie listings on the back?  I don't really know what
>>> these things cost, but such a listing -- in terms of effort -- could be
>>> produced more regularly than a full paper.  I know that distribution 
>>> can
>>> be a nightmare, too; it'd be nice if people could find it in the places
>>> that they're used to finding the Octopus, theoretically.
>>>
>>> But at very least, a comprehensive weekly webified calendar, well-
>>> publicized, could really do the IMC -- and CU as a whole -- a lot of 
>>> good.
>>>
>>> Whaddaya think?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> i couldn't agree more.   one possibility is to create a web-calendar 
>> that
>> uses a fairly good content management system and that could be output 
>> to a
>> flyer directly.  more realistically (perhaps) is to create a calendar
>> program that is easy to use, "pretty", easily accessed, etc. and start
>> using our connections in the community to point people to it.  this
>> wouldn't be too much of a hassle -- but what we're missing is someone 
>> with
>> tech skills to coordinate the effort.  you're definitly right, we have a
>> tremendous opportunity right now to fill a major void; all we need is a
>> volunteer.
>>
>> --sascha
>>
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