General Outline from our 5-20 Meeting

STREETFIGHT

Starter: Show Pavement-breaking Video 

 I. Lessons from NYCSR: Success Story of Separated Bike Lanes in NYC

• Intro: TOPP's broader mission, funding, TA & PPS
• Introduce ourselves and our roles
• Separated Bike Lanes Story
• Set the scene--where were we 2 years ago?
• Blog begins reporting on this, targeting city agencies, policy-makers, etc.
  
• Separated Bike Lanes Film
• Photosim
  
• Other web stuff, events, or activists involved?
  
• DOT changes hands
• Blog post breaks story: Ninth Ave. bike lane, trees, & nearby pocket plazas installed!
• Now, our mission has evolved . . .
  

 II. Livable Streets Network: Do it Yourself Using Our Awesome Site/Tools!

• Open-source Acitvism : providing tools for people to connect and organize for themselves throughout the world
  

•  Walk through site following a topic/train:
  
• Blog post--> comment --> user profile --> group --> wiki --> Streetfilm (choose 1 more film to show here)
  

•  How you can join the movement:
  

• Streetfilms: use to influence policy in yr city, learn best practices, or make your own.
• StreetsWiki: take blog comments to the next level
  

• Groups: tools allow for easy organizing and communication--start a group!
  
• Blog Network: explain T4America.  Join or start you own sblog!

III. Questions/Conversation

• General Questions
• Breakout Roundtable Groups
•  Technology and Organizing (what Nick described better)
  
• Others on film, photosims?