Inspired by Aurelia Moser's Worklog
- bklynCONNECT: a community-driven free wireless network and associated technology training program
- Open Leadership Training for the library: Using Mozilla's resources on how to "work open" (i.e. how to sharing knowledge and information widely and freely, allow others to build on your projects, and maximize usefulness for everyone) to train library staff and change the culture of the library
- Alternatives to fines: A system that gets people to return books to the library without levying fines and creating debt in the community
- Curriculum Development for Bklyn Library Technology Trainings: Collaboratively develop an open curriculum for training library staff and patrons
- Technology for Social Justice Field Scan: Participatory action research project to understand how people and what people build, use, and engage with technology for social justice and social good
- Hélio Sousa's website: website for Capoeira Angola in Toronto, as well as leatherwork, talks, and musings
| Month | Date | In the library? | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| September | 25-28 | no | Mozilla Onboarding in Toronto |
| October | 2 | yes | first day at library 🎉 |
| October | 3-6 | yes | Meeting with Sharon Palmer, David Giles, Aditi Mehta, Larissa Larrier, Story Bellows, Paul Levy, Jackson Gomes, Adwoa Adusei |
| October | 9-13 | yes | |
| October | 16 | yes/no | Meet with Bed-Stuy Restoration Corporation and Brownsville Partnership |
| October | 17-19 | no | Technology for Social Justice Field Scan research convening in Chicago |
| October | 23 | yes | |
| October | 24-30 | no | Mozilla Festival in London |
| October | 31 | yes | |
| November | 2 | no | Project Management workshop/training from 11-2 at METRO Library Council, meet with Jose Serrano-McClain at Neighborhood Innovation Lab in Brownsville at 4pm |
| November | 8 | yes | Send revised and incorporated Playbook content back to Tythe |
| November | 9 | no | Facilitation bootcamp by the Design Gym |
| November | 10-11 | no | Veteran's Day and The People's Disruption: Platform Coops for Global Challenges |
| November | 15-17 | no | Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, CA |
| November | 17-19 | no | Data for Black Lives Conference at MIT |
| November | 20-22 | yes | |
| November | 23-24 | no | Thanksgiving |
| November | 27-30 | yes | |
| December | 1 | yes | |
| December | 4-8 | yes | |
| December | 11-15 | yes | |
| December | 18-22 | no | In California for the holiday |
| December | 25 | no | Christmas |
| December | 26-29 | no | In California for the holiday |
| January | 13 | no | Brownsville DiscoTech Co-design Day |
| January | 20 | no | Brownsville DiscoTech |
| January | 28-31 | no | Mozilla Fellows Workweek, my birthday (🎉) on the 30th |
| February | 1-2 | no | Mozilla Fellows Workweek |
| February | 13-16 | no | Code4Lib in Washington, DC |
| March | 5-9 | no | Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain |
| March | 20-24 | no | Public Libraries Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA |
| April | yes | ||
| May | yes | ||
| June | 30 | yes | final day of fellowship |
- Data Privacy Project by BPL and RAD
- Detroit Future Media Guide to Digital Literacy
- Detroit Future Schools Guide to Humanizing Schooling
from The Design Gym Facilitation Bootcamp
- The International Association of Facilitators is a great organization that provides Professional Facilitator certification.
- Helpful books include: The Art of Focused Conversation, Gamestorming, Facilitator's Guide to Managing Participatory Decision Making, and The Skilled Facilitator
- Looking for energizer inspiration? Check out Ice-breakers, energizers & team builders and Fun Retrospectives
- Method Kit Planning Guide
- list of local CBOs per Brooklyn Neighborhood (from Kristina Drury)
- Opening Data Zine
- Recurse Center Manual
- Community Technology Field Guide
- Sent playbook draft with comments to TYTHE
- Met with Cheila Cruz about technology training
- Applied to join The National Digital Inclusion Alliance for the Brooklyn Public Library
- Sent shared agenda and Brownsville digital equity needs assessment to Jose Serrano-McClain
- booked a room and sent out conference call info for partner decision meeting on Friday
- agreed to contribute design research to nudge project
- QA'd ostensibly missing transcripts for T4SJ
- emailed Greta and Raul to set up meeting about community wireless
- requested a meeting with Diana Nucera about community wireless and t4sj
- messaged Khalid from the MozFest quiet room about Recurse
- responded to An-Me about London postal history and library web lit curriculum
- sent a list of links and resources on web/digital literacy to Cheila Cruz
- sent intro email to Diana P., David, Rawle, Paul Levy, José Serrano McClain, Kate Hohman, Anthony Sanford in preparation for partnership meeting
- maturely handled an awkward social situation by communicating
- Met with NYC Tech/Neighborhood Innovation Lab in Brownsville to talk about partnership, and to tour Osborn plaza
- Bklyn Incubator pitch meeting
- facilitated a meeting with David, Diana, Rawle, Selvon, Larissa, Sharon, and Jackson and consensed on a proposal for sharing with potential partners for wifi in Osborn plaza and cohort-based stewardship
- read Greta and Raul's write up today: What Happens to the Internet After a Disaster? By Ingrid Burrington
- Messaged Greta and Raul to set up a meeting on "how to best set up a(n intergenerational) cohort-based stewardship program, what curricula you use or have created, how ownership works in your networks, and any unexpected challenges you've run into that we could avoid."
- reviewed TYTHE's revisions to playbook
- met with TYTHE, Diana P. and Rawle about playbook status
- followed up with Diana N. about community advisory boards and intergenerationality
- asked Ellen Mehling about her community advisory position with the Brownsville Tech Board
- Messaged NYCxCoLab to ask to collaborate
- Made final edits to neighborhood digital equity needs assessment reports and sent to Kris
- Incorporated TYTHE's suggestions into BPL provided playbook sections
- Gave Diana P. constructive feedback on her Data Visualization in Tableau for teens workshop
- asked Jackson if we can make a video where fellows present the playbook (one day video shoot)
- wrote speech to give to T4s
- send Kris commentary on her changes to playbook, and changes to my changes on playbook
- nudged Jackson to send me changes to his section of the playbook -spoke with Zannah Marsh from Mozilla about web literacy curriculum
- updated shared calendar for when I will and won't be around
- Facilitation Bootcamp by the Design Gym
- Sent Kris from TYTHE updated needs assessment .indd's
- Veteran's Day Observed
- Conference: The People's Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges
- Lead a meeting with Jose, Kate, and Anthony from NYC Tech + Rawle and Diana P.
- read Red Hook proposal
- scheduled meeting with Diana P. and Rawle to go over timeline and what this whole thing looks like
- created roadmap and Kanban board for bklynCONNECT using open practices
- Contacted Taurean Lewis and Mary Tobin about plans for Osborn Plaza
- SP meeting
- Listened to Brownsville Excerpts
- asked Adwoa to collab on DiscoTech
- Made a spreadsheet of orgs to potentially invite/collab with, and venues for the DiscoTech
- Got a quote on 3 Black Cats ($650/5hrs = $1300)
- Nonprofit Software Development Summit
- attended session on Qualitative research design and how to answer difficult research questions, or questions for which there is not much quantitative data by Sarah
- attended session on increasing diversity in System Administration by Jaime
- attended session on Online Learning with Norman
- attended session on the Digital Divide, Indigeneity, and Acklnowledging Place
- Did a skillshare on Portuguese and User Research with Amaya Webster from Benetech
- attended part of a session on non-hierarchical project managerment by Design Action Collective
- session on dealing with distraction
- session on regular expressions and regex with Bill Buddington from EFF and Freddie Martinez
- spoke with Adwoa about co-organizing the DiscoTech
- Wrote definitions and framing section of t4sj report
- organized interview excerpts in a private github repository
- met with Rawle and Diana to go over BklynConnect Timeline and Budget
- made timeline of BklynConnect through June 2018
- called to get quote on outdoor touchscreen interface
- stayed home sick
- met with t4sj team to go over what needs to happen before we can share the final report
- wrote Ecosystem section of t4sj final report
- Set up meeting with Naila about DiscoTech, community engagements, and government partnerships
- Half a round of edits on t4sj final report
- FINALLY responded to Selvon about regular check-ins
- Talked to Diana at the Brooklyn Collection about Community Webs: Empowering Public Libraries to Create Community History Web Archives and the Memory Lab grant application
🦃 Thanksgiving 🦃
- spoke with Adwoa about DiscoTech
- contacted Ms. Robinson at the Heritage House about space for the DiscoTech
- medical appointment
- Met with Naila Caicedo about government and community partnerships
- Called Heritage House to set up a site visit
- Followed up with Taurean at Brownsville Partnership
- Emailed the Melting Pot to set up site visit tomorrow
- Messaged Cheila about TRS curriculum, TPAC Petting Zoo, and DiscoTech
- Made a Save the Date flyer
- Strategic Planning staff meeting, 12pm
- Community Board 16 Meeting, 7pm
- day in Brownsville with Naila
- Met with Miriam and Iris at the Heritage House
- Visited Brownsville Community Culinary Center to see spaces available
- Met with CB 16 District Manager Viola D. Greene-Walker
- T4SJ report review call with partners
- Emailed Jose to set up meeting tomorrow
- Finally after all these years cleaned up my dropbox folder
- Put needs assessments on Github
- Provided feedback on the Internet Health Report
- Contacted Brownsville Culinary Center about reserving space
- Georgia Bullen's Design for Democracy talk at Pratt
- made agenda for call with Jose Serrano McClain
- Emailed Kris back about needs assessments and playbook
- Talked to Jose, found out about kiosks, LinkNYC, BCJC
- SP Staff Meeting
- Met with Selvon, Ann, and Mike about user testing and software testing
- Read a series of articles on broadband access and adoption, starting with Broadband's Impact: a Brief Literature Review
- got an update from Rawle on his future convo with cablevision
- Met with Noella and Cathy to give an update on our timeline and the IMLS grant
- set up meeting with Jose and Julie Taylor from BCJC tomorrow morning
- asked Sharon for best practices for disseminating reports
- followed up with Taurean
- spoke with Jose and Julie about running a fellowship Feb 1st-May 1st
- reviewed Playbook draft from Tythe
- Optimized needs assessment files
- Spoke to Code for America and Ford Foundation about T4SJ final report
- emailed Julie Taylor to set up meeting to speak in depth about February youth cohort
- Wrote workplan
- Followed up with Greta and Raul
- rescheduled doctor's appointment to January 4th
- Check in with Selvon
- informally invited Greg to photograph community technology skillshare in January
- asked Naila for her preference on DiscoTech location
- Created Research Plan for DiscoTech
- SP Staff meeting
- Naila thinks the Heritage House is a good location
- Met with Julie Taylor at BCJC
- Introduction to GitHub for Librarians and Archivists @ METRO NYC
- Write usability testing plan for catalog and app
- Needs assessments
- distribute needs assessments to team, branches, partners, etc.
- Write email for team
- Write email for East New York Orgs
- Write email for Brownsville Orgs
- Write email for Bed Stuy Orgs
- Make a spreadsheet of all the technology education the library offers to anyone
- Let Restoration Corp know about Bklyn Library Plans
- find someone implementing community wireless to be an audience/user
- read and review Web Literacy Curriculum Reboot
- test out some of the Web Literacy lesson modules in the branches
- write MOU for NYCxCoLabs
- get an alumni.mit.edu email address
- Send Dave well wishes (and flowers?) for his surgery
- Contact Tahir Hemphill about data and his hip hop archive
- follow up with connections from Mozfest
- Davis about library web lit
- Audrey and Amira about libraries, web literacy, and edible flowers
- Danielle Robinson, Code for Science and Society
- ask An-Me about her own family history and how it relates to Blackdom
- Contact Robin Ketchum to meet up at the Library
- 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