Date:  Thursday, March 5, 2009
Time:  6pm - 9pm
Location:  Mary's Apartment in the Lake Merritt neighborhood in Oakland. 

> Check out the Spot.Us profile on the Featured Projects Page! 

Featured Project: On March 5th, 2009, Kara Andrade and David Cohn presented their project, Spot.us.   

Here's what she had to say about it:

"Spot.Us, www.spot.us, is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer community funded reporting.  Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your donation will be reimbursed. Otherwise, all content is made available to all through a Creative Commons license. It¹s a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come
together and collaborate."

Date:  Febrary 5, 2009
Time:  6pm - 9pm
Location:  Mary's Apartment in the Lake Merritt neighborhood in Oakland.

Featured Project: 
For the first presentation, I'm stuck close to home and have asked Ada Pinkston to talk about a project we are both working on called Our Oakland: Eastside Stories.

Our Oakland is an integrated public art project by artist Rene Yung.  The project was commissioned by the City of Oakland's Cultural Arts and Marketing Division for a new East Oakland Community Library, currently under construction.  The Our Oakland project includes a large-scale architectural art glass installation at the new East Oakland Community Library and an online archive of digitized stories told by East Oakland residents. 

>Our Oakland's Soupstone Page

>Our Oakland's Website