Welcoming New Contributors and Users

[EducationalVideoCenter]

If you are interested in this project, even if you are not sure how to contribute, please say "Hi" and tell us a bit about yourself.
We would also love to know what you think is the most important thing to keep in mind when working with rural communities!

We will start, here's a little about the EVC team:

Emmanuel: I'm an instructor for the Educational Video Center. Originally from San Diego, CA I moved to New York in 2010 for graduate school to study the Sociology of Education and have stayed ever since. While the California coast will always be home, I love the wealth of culture and energy that is created from the diversity and density by the people of NYC. Working on the We Are All Connected Project has been such a fun and meaningful experience as it brings together so many of my interests and passions - experiential learning, travel, applied sociology, youth empowerment, documentary film, exchanging of cultures and more. We're excited to now take this work into the open!

Mary: Hi, I'm the Director of Professional Development Programs for Educational Video Center. I'm an educator who is originally from the Appalachian region of Ohio in the USA and currently lives in New York City. I began doing urban-rural collaborative community work as a Spanish high school teacher in Appalachia over ten years ago and have also worked with urban and rural youth in Central America and Brazil. I love the richness of these projects and how much we all learn from working together!!

We hope you feel welcomed to this project!! 😃

[cameralibre]

Kia ora, I'm Sam, and I'm mentoring Mary & Emmanuel during the Mozilla Open Leaders program, as they open up We Are All Connected for participation!

I'm based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, though I previously lived in Berlin for many years, where I made Free Culture videos and animation, using Free Software, about Open Everything, and made documentaries with Wrangelfilm collective, Open Pixel Films, as well as independently.

I'm looking forward to contributing learning resources to WAC, helping to make the project inviting to others, and perhaps using the Curriculum for running video workshops.

[EducationalVideoCenter]

Thanks Sam for all of your amazing support and mentorship!!!

[EstherMwema]

Hello team, I'm Esther, Mozilla Open Leader @DigitalGrassroots and this is my first ever Sprint and Hackathon! Excited to learn about EVC and will find ways to contribute. Yip yip!

• I love youth and work with youth and I'm a youth. Happy Sprinting!

[dannyrayman]

Hi!! @EducationalVideoCenter my name is Danny Rayman I work in the project @Beyondactivismo, this is my first sprint too! I think the Youth Powered Video Curriculum is amazing and I will read it because there are very useful tips!

[secmorris]

Hello @EducationalVideoCenter and fellow sprinters. Really looking forward to learning more about your project and contributing.

[EducationalVideoCenter]

Thanks for your comments!!! Let us know if you have any questions or would like to set up a time to chat!!

[manasvil]

It was great meeting you Mary and Emmanuel at the Global Sprint :)

[EducationalVideoCenter]

Likewise, Mansavi! Do let us know if you need help with using Pandoc to convert your documents.