Comments on: PodCamp New Orleans?

By: Tammy Munson

Tammy Munson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:08:52 +0000

This is an absolutely awesome idea!!! Please put me down to help in anyway I can especially with the organizing team. I grew up in New Orleans and my parents still live there. I am certainly willing to help in any way I can.

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:22:00 +0000

The wheels are rolling. I just bought PodCampNewOrleans.org and PodCampNewOrleans.com this evening. I’ll host it on my ICDSoft account and start getting the process set up.

By: Adri

Adri — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:14:10 +0000

As another New Orleans native, I agree that doing something earlier in the season is a great idea. Carnival lasts for a month and a half, and if you go earlier, you’ll get to see the real New Orleans turned out for a party: dancing, music, food, laughing, and singing. I would love to see this New Orleans celebration recorded and shared by my new media colleagues.

If you go to New Orleans to share these stories, I will do my damnedest to provide some sort of virtual worlds outlet as well. And, hey, I welcome any excuse to travel home.

(Oh, and don’t let me discourage you from going to the tourist Mardi Gras, as well, we’re happy to get those $300/night hotel fees, and when Bacchus and Endymion roll through the Quarter, you can bet that’s a damn good time, too!)

By: Daniele Rossi

Daniele Rossi — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:15:40 +0000

PodCamp in the birthplace of jazz?? I am SO there!

By: Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:11:32 +0000

You do not have to ask me twice.

What date?

By: Gordon Soderberg

Gordon Soderberg — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:41:16 +0000

Podcamp would be great! I’ve been documenting recovery efforts since September 2nd 2005 using a mac, video camera, and at first a satellite Internet connection. I’m in the process of converting from a drupal driven website to one powered by http://www.ning.com to provide a better way to network new users to better tools. This also provide a ver efficient way to organize networks of relief organizations and document what they do. take a look.

New Orleans Voices For Peace
United Peace Relief
I also use http://www.blogtalkradion.com/voiceforpeace

By: GentillyGirl

GentillyGirl — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:23:37 +0000

Though I don’t do podcasts, only Blogging, I think it would be great if you folks came down here for your convention.

There are many of us here that write about the city and can give alot of information that will help you do what you do.

Give me a yell, and I’ll see what I can help with.

By: Rob Suarez

Rob Suarez — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:21:18 +0000

I was born in New Orleans (‘nawlins) and lived my childhood in the lower 9th ward. Even though we were two families living in one house (5 adults and 7 kids), I never thought of myself as living in a “depressed area”. While I was growing up it wasn’t “the 9th ward”… it was “home”. The neighborhood kids all played in the street (flooded or dry). Black kids (neighbor), white kids (other neighbor), Cuban kids (me)… we all played touch football in the street. We climbed over the levee and went crabbing with homemade traps. We lived and breathed everything New Orleans. Music and food intermingled in the air, their aromas intertwined like the fusion of cultures that formed the Big Easy.
New Orleans has been caricatured by the antics of Mardi Gras… but the locals all know that the throngs of people in the street, screaming, drinking, and exposing themselves are all tourists. The real New Orleans is working the bar, cleaning the mess in the street, playing the sax in Jackson Square.
I applaud the PodCamp team for forming a PodCamp New Orleans event.
Stay in the French Quarter, by all means, but be sure to grab a shrimp po-boy in the 9th Ward. Have a table full of crawdads overlooking Lake Ponchatrain. If you go during the month leading up to Mardi Gras, be sure to stop by Lawrence Bakery and enjoy a King Cake (get the original version).
Anyway… I’m getting all nostalgic.

-Laissez Les Bon Temps Roullez-

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:08:20 +0000

Well, let’s make it a 3 day event.

Day 1: Learn new media tools.
Day 2: Go out and create new media.
Day 3: Join back up and show what you’ve created.

Ideally we can get enough local organizers together that they can create a sherpa program of sorts, where the out of towners can buddy up with locals and get the stories you won’t ever see on CNN.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:52:11 +0000

I have to agree that there has GOT to be a community angle here. Volunteer work, charity concert, something. Too much shit has happened down there to ignore it.

Clarence (as always) makes a damn fine point. Think of the voices and faces we could share with the world if we hit the streets and talked to the people.

By: Clarence

Clarence — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:16:02 +0000

…re: what Chris Penn said. If we’re not getting down in the community and looking at this Katrina scenario — then it’s not worth really going. Imagine the clue that NOLA residents can drop on us about how they are surviving and working just to keep their families together. I definitely think this PodCamp can and should be an example of jumping out of the fishbowl and swimming in the sea.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:17:43 +0000

RE: Timing

In an effort to have a helpful economic impact, how about having it in the off season? Mardi-gras is still bound to generate interest and revenue. Wouldn’t it be great to give a shot in the arm when things are leaner?

Not to mention, I just heard on an sqpn.com podcast of a beautiful hotel in the French Quarter…the Place d’Armes, which has rooms as low as $59/night making it very affordable for those new media folks on a budget. Not to mention it’s beautiful to boot http://www.placedarmes.com

By: Michelle Wolverton / chel pixie

Michelle Wolverton / chel pixie — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:59:22 +0000

Chuckling re: Everyday Heroes which I was about to post about. I shouldn’t be surprised you beat me to it.

A focused Everyday Heroes at that. Build community. Bring some love to New Orleans. I like it.

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:52:45 +0000

I definitely think that there should be at least an afternoon, if not a day, when the media makers go out into the city and surrounding areas and create some media to distribute in their respective shows. Think of it as a twist on Jeff Pulver’s Everyday Heroes. This would be everyday stories.

By: Think New Orleans » PodCamp New Orleans

Think New Orleans » PodCamp New Orleans — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:42:39 +0000

[...] idea of a PodCamp for New Orleans is forming at the weblog of Christopher S. Penn. Hats off to Christopher Johnston for spotting this [...]

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:40:15 +0000

I’d love to work with Christopher on bringing a PodCamp to New Orleans. Before we pick a date, we should look at the right times, but Mardi Gras might not be the worst time. Maybe during the start of the season, during Krewe du Vieux, when Maridi Gras gets started it is a much more personable and local affair.

Jared Michael Zeller is in Krewe du Vieux. You know, a great way to reach out to people would be to get them involved in some of our non-touristy celebrations. Imagine an open space / unconference where we mash up social media with costumes making.

I’d love to get technical people out into the neighborhoods to gather news and views of the recovery. This could even be used has hard news and information sharing, between the different parts of the city. The organization / information challenges of the recovery are huge, and there is very little technical support for all the organizations working in New Orleans.

Totally thrilled at the prospect. We have so many wonderful sounds to capture and mix. We could work to make it an experience for PodCamp participants where they are guests and volunteer info workers and not tourists.

By: Christopher Johnston

Christopher Johnston — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:14:11 +0000

Having it in the month before Mardi Gras makes it near impossible logistically. That is unless you want to pay $300/night for hotel rooms or stay in Biloxi, MS and drive in everyday. Also getting a space to hold it in for a reasonable rate becomes difficult.

….I could work this angle and try to get the tourism board interested and maybe agree as sponsor if they could be brought to view it as advertisement for the city. Y’all have got me looking at this from a whole other angle now.

By: Clarence

Clarence — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:47:21 +0000

Phillip, no doubt there is a grassroots style flavor of support for Katrina survivors. I think that the government and private sector has ignored the state of affairs in NO. Hundreds of thousands displaced, rebuilding efforts out of mind and out of site of the media (therefore off of most peoples radars), etc. Also, I think “willfully ignored” is a solid stamp on the way things are playing out right now — been to the 9th ward lately? Let it marinate.

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:42:01 +0000

Let’s put it on the calendar. First things first – who’s the new media community on the ground already?

By: C.C. Chapman

C.C. Chapman — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:37:54 +0000

Oh I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO into this idea for so many different reasons. If nothing else then for the food and the music I’m there.

By: Clarence

Clarence — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:37:21 +0000

I’m 100% down with this.

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:59:52 +0000

Bill Deys: maybe have it the weekend before or something. “Since you’re here anyway….”

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:59:25 +0000

Bill Deys: good heavens, it’d be NEAR Mardi Gras, but not on it. That’d just be asking for trouble.

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:58:48 +0000

Phillip – I absolutely agree that private citizens stepped up and helped out, but given the penchant our government has for speaking for all of us (whether it does or not), it’s fair to say that they’ve given NOLA a miss… and technically, we did elect them to speak for us.

By: Bill Deys

Bill Deys — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:58:18 +0000

I don’t know if the world or the city is ready for a PodCamp at the same time as Mardi Gras. I don’t know if I’m ready for that either but it’ s a great idea!

By: Michelle Wolverton / chel pixie

Michelle Wolverton / chel pixie — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:55:26 +0000

Great stories and great food.

You get Becca Loebe to play and I’m in.

By: Phillip (aka PhillyMac)

Phillip (aka PhillyMac) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:54:59 +0000

I think it would be brilliant to have a Podcamp there. Go for it and Rock the French Quarter while you’re there!

I do take exception to the comment regarding the “willful ignoring” of New Orleans though. There are many Americans that have sent much aid to not only New Orleans but also the other areas devestated by Katrina. We have not forgotten. Now, has our government done the best job they could? No. Has the local government (which was infested with corruption) done the best they could? Equally no. Can we all do more? Possibily. But I don’t think it’s just to say that the city and surrounding areas have been willfully ignored.