Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission

Overview

Grant for community media (must utilize INET) projects. Range is $3,500 to $280,000. Requires 50% matching funds.

Proposal

Free Geek creates industry partnership to provide matching funds for education program expansion. Funding for:

• Finish classroom - construction, acoustics, lighting ($7,500).

• Complete sound system installation ($4,000).

• Purchase DV camera(s) for broadcast quality production ($3,000 - $5,500).

• Sublimental hardware for video editing system (Cinelerra) ($1,000)
  • ideally, we would have the capability of having 2-5 edit stations working at once, this would likely increase the editing station budget to $5,000.--Revphil 10:36, 6 Jan 2006 (PST)

• Program "staff" - Internship ($18,000).

Rough estimate of ask: $34,500 - $41,000

Goals

• Provide series of education videos from Free Geek programs.
  • Card sorting
  • Evaluation
  • Build
  • Adoption Class
  • Recycling Techniques and Ideals
  • Commandline Class
  • Advanced Linux Class
  • Printer Repair Class (in production now)

• Provide volunteer opportunities/trainings around community media projects using Free/Open Source Software.
  • Production
  • Editing: [1] Cinelerra, or FinalCutPro (Probably not until it is open source)
  • Camera use
  • Lighting
  • Streaming

Partners

brainstrom list

• Flir
• Infocus
• HP
• Intel
• OSDL

• Gus Van Sant
• PCM how much might they "charge" for using their space?
  • classes for studio camera/lighting and studio audio are $20.00 per student and last 3 hours
  • 600$-1000 / day for space, + crew, we would have to go though their orentation
  • michelle works with the nonprofits, give a call tuesday 10-6 ext #16
  • Ray Larson Engineer/Technical Director would be able to give more exact estimes
  • each camera is about 20k and that is cheap

teachers

• Chris Dawson podcast [2]
• Jeff Johnson jeff -at the old- comfrey -doot- net, [3]
  • Jeff is a OpenSource advocate and will help keep Free Geek honest by sharing his knowledge of F/OSS audio/video software
  • Transcode is a suite of command line utilities for transcoding video and audio codecs, and for converting beween different container formats
• blank, other indymedia folk
• ed stansty, Mac podcast video [4]
  • ed has a lot of background in 2-D art and has made a movie about me and darth vader
• Will Luers taylorstreetstudio.com Mac, podcast video [5]
  • Will knows oldskool but is pumped about the new
• dave slay teacher PCM, knows the studio 503.282.3708 slayvid [at the] comcast -dawt- net