Mobile Track

Northern Voice - Moose Camp Mobile Track Sessions

10 sessions covering mobile topics all day!

Produced by: W2 Community Media Arts Society, in association with Moose Camp and Northern Voice, and the Chatter & Whir Festival (produced by the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres). Supported by: Northern Voice, Mobile Muse 3, DTES Community Arts Network, Fearless City Mobile participants and volunteers.

10:15 - 10:45 Streaming media hits the big time: Its time to throw away your VHS camcorder and TV and discover the best strategies for streaming mobile video from hand-held wireless devices... Quik, Livecast, Ustream! Speaker: Roland Tanglao

10:45 - 11:45 In Your Face: A spirited discussion on the ethics of representation in mobile media. From citizen reporters to surveillance devices, going mobile is opening up new issues of access, representation, surveillance and control. Hear from panelists: Hendrik Beune (Fearless City), Mark Burdett (San Francisco), Amanda Garces (Los Angeles), and Michael Tippett (Now Public).

11:15 - 11:45 VozMob: Mobile Voices / Voces Móviles (a.k.a. "vozmob") is an open source participatory learning project joining together scholars, community organizers, and low-wage immigrants in Los Angeles. Vozmob is building a communication platform that helps low-wage immigrants gain increased media and technology skills for community building and public participation by using mobile phones to create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. The project brings together day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers in a participatory design process to create an open source multimedia content management system optimized for affordable mobile phones. Speakers: Mark Burdett (San Francisco) and Amanda Garces (Los Angeles).

1:00 - 1:30 The Future is Fearless: Catch up on the Fearless Mobile City project as it enters year two building a two-way social media system for marginalized residents and artists of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). Fearless uses mobile tactics in the inner-city as we create community generated media while confronting the digital divide. Speakers: Irwin Oostindie and Fearless participants.

1:30 - 2:00 Mobile Media Production: An overview of technical lessons learned in sound, lighting, connectivity, and other issues. Panel discussion and sharing led by Mo Simpson (NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence) and April Smith (Fearless City).

2:00 - 2300 The Open Mobile Web Opportunity: A discussion about open source, standards, PhoneGap and XUI. Speaker: Brian LeRoux (Nitobi)

3:00 - 4:00 Video Walk - a twist on the Northern Voice tradition. Bring your mobile camera and let's walk and shoot some video. (promptly leaves from concourse area at 1:30pm)

3:00 - 3:30 Mobile Hacking with Android - A more in-depth discussion about Open Source, Standards and PhoneGap with an emphasis on Google Android. Discusses Google Android in depth and the importance of augmented reality devices in the real world. Speaker: Joe Bowser (Nitobi)

3:30 - 4:00 Public Space & Personal Interaction: Walk upstairs in the Forestry Building and visit the UBC Magic Lab to explore the domain of public interaction with large screens using personal mobile devices. Get introduced to this playpen for techies as the UBC Magic Lab partners with Fearless City Mobile and Mobile Muse 3.

Speaker Bios

Amanda Garcés (Mobile Voices, Los Angeles) is the Project Coordinator for Mobile Voices, and has worked organizing Latino immigrant day labourers for the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California.

Mark Burdett (Mobile Voices, San Francisco) handles the drupal web interface for Mobile Voices in Los Angeles, and is into researching mobile technology as it applies to community empowerment. Mark is an experienced drupal developer and brings his years of experience in web-based independent media platforms to this mobile future.

Roland Tanglao (Raincity Studios)Support Services Coordinator Raincity Studios. A veritable social media factory, Roland began blogging in 1999 and regularly contributes his wit and knowledge about mobile technology, Vancouver's best restaurants, and tech meetup recaps - along with an epic Flickr photostream - to the global online conversation.

Although a technologist at heart - Roland is a systems design engineer - as a co-founder of Bryght, Roland created a prototype for candid, company blogging with his enthused and informative style.

Born in the Philippines, raised in Canada - shoveling snow and playing hockey in a small town in Ontario near Niagara Falls - Roland speaks better German and French than Tagalog. He enjoys snapping blurry camera phone photos while Skytrain-ing or riding his bike on icy streets to Gastown.

Michael Tippett (Now Public) He's the guy who started NowPublic in his garage. He lives in Vancouver.

Hendrik Beune (Fearless City Mobile) is a community activist and citizen journalist, whose activities focus on the DTES, with Fearless City Mobile, Fearless TV and W2. His main interest are social justice, community building and media ethics. Hendrik is a Board member of the Pivot Legal Society and collaborator with independent new media group www.AHAmedia.ca

Irwin Oostindie (W2) is the Executive Director of W2, opening at Woodwards in Fall 2009, is cofounder of Fearless, and has worked on numerous social justice, community media, and cultural projects internationally and in Vancouver. 20 years ago he founded the Under the Volcano Festival, and is now a self-prophesed policy wonk speaking and writing on such issues, while living with his daughter in the DTES.

Moira Simpson is an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans 30 years and encompasses many National Film Board of Canada, independent and television documentaries. She is Filmmaker-in-Residence in the DTES with Fearless City Mobile and W2. Mo isn't ready to throw away her camera yet in favour of a mobile, but has plenty to share from her experiences mentoring Fearless City Mobile participants.

April Smith (Fearless City Mobile) is an avid mobile new media livestreaming videographer/photographer using HTC Touch Pro and Nokia N95 cameraphones. Extremely interested in social media and mobile technology, she believes in community building, empowerment and outreach through public workshops, events, filmmaking, and cartooning. She is a W2 Program Assistant and a project leader/Cheerleader for Fearless. She is a co-founder of independent new media group www.AHAmedia.ca

Joe Bowser is one of the co-founders of FreeTheNet.ca and Vancouver Hacker Space. He also has a day job at Nitobi Software, where he works with Javascript, Ruby on Rails, and other open source technologies. Joe is currently involved with Spartacus Books, has in the past worked with Free Geek Vancouver and is committed to Open Access to information and the Free Software movement. Joe is also a contributor to the PhoneGap project, working on the Android version of PhoneGap.

Brian LeRoux is co-creator of XUI and contributor to PhoneGap. Brian believes that the future of the internet is mobile and will rely on web standards, open source and hackers like you. Brian works at Nitobi Software: a leader in user experience and all things javascript. My, aaaah "blog" is here http://westcoastlogic.com and my work related blog is here: http://blogs.nitobi.com/brian/