About and Contact
last updated: 03.07.09
What is Pool?
Media about Pool Pool press kit About the Pool team
What is Pool?
ABC Radio National Pool is building an on-line "town square" for all Australians.
Pool is an open platform for conducting research in action at the intersection of conventional broadcast media and participatory media. Pool is exploring this new territory and is asking the question: "how does a traditional broadcaster make sense of participatory media culture?"
The Pool story began in early 2003, that seed has grown into the public beta site you see today which was launched in August 2008.
The new version of Pool is being designed right now. See it unfolding and comment on it here: http://pool.acid.net.au
It's also a place to share and talk about your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more.
It's a collaborative space where audiences become conversationalists.
What can I do at Pool?
Create a profile
Make your own profile page so others can learn more about your interests and see what you are creating.
Upload/Download
You can upload your own work whether it’s text, audio, image or video and download other people’s work to build upon or remix.
Remix & reuse the ABC archive
Little bit by little bit we're releasing ABC archives back to the public for use and reuse under an open licence. Look here to see what's already been released.
Collaborate with Radio National producers
We're constantly running projects where we invite you to contribute. It's a new approach for us in making our media collaborative and crowdsourced. See all the projects here.
Search
Search content by genre & licence, search contributors by skills, and search by tags and “tag-clouds”.
Licence
Select a licensing agreement; declare a relationship between your content and other content.
Contact
Get in touch with the Pool team via email or follow us on Twitter. We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas.
Media about Pool
Media coverage of the Pool project. You can see all items tagged Pool media here. If you see Pool mentioned somewhere let us know. If you would like to interview the Pool team, just drop us a line. Pool press kit Pool press releases and graphics for use by bloggers and other media. You can see all items tagged Pool press here.
About the Pool team Pool editorial team:
Executive producer: Sherre DeLys. Producers: John Jacobs, Kate Gauld.
Pool interns: Amelia Schmidt and Bridget Spinks
Pool education consortium: Includes academics from UTS, UoW and RMIT with our version 2 design consults being Marius Foley from RMIT with Jeremy Yulle and Chris Marmo from ACID.
Thanks also to Tim Mansfield, Ben Byrne, Ali Edwards, David Harwood, Creative Commons Australia. And to Kyla Brettle for U.X. and education sector consultation.
And to past interns: Anna Yanatchkova, Julienne Chan, Nicolas Apave, Don Cameron, Dan McHugh, Tim Dodds & Emily Naismith.
Pool beta version web development team: Technical lead and theme development: James Gollan. Developers: Rimian Perkins, Mark Simpson and Owen Townend. HTML developers: Greg Turner, Alistair Weakley. Designer: Amber Heyward Design leader: Lee Mullen Information architecture: Kerry Lotzof, Meena Tharmarajah, Briony Williamson Production manager: Peter Jackson Usability testing coordinator: Carolyn Harris
Pool is built using Drupal, a free and open-source software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish and manage a wide variety of content. Drupal is a flexible, community focused way of creatively collaborating.
Sherre DeLys, executive producer
Sherre DeLys has developed playful dialogues with some of her favourite writers and musicians to create radio art which displays an intense regard for listeners' own imaginative involvement. She has collaborated with sculptor Joan Grounds for more than a decade– their sound sculptures enter into a call-and-response with the botanical environments they inhabit. Her work has been commissioned by national broadcasters and artist-run internet stations, and presented at major museums and cultural centres in Europe, America and Australasia. She’s enjoyed team-work as producer for The Listening Room at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and The Next Big Thing, WNYC. Sherre has also performed with improvising music groups, created sound designs for Sydney Theatre Company, hosted conversations with musicians for ABC TV, taught and published on sound art and documentary.
John Jacobs - Producer, Audience experience & Community contact
John is an ABC broadcaster, social media activist, electro-mechanical poet, bike rider, vegan cook, performer, promoter, composer, and enthusiastic life hacker. He is a founding member of the Indymedia movement and also part of the team that devised and produces Radio National’s audio adventure, The Night Air.
Kate's work has been screened at the SXSW Festival, heard on Radio National's Media Report, and read in jmag, The Diplomat, The Big Issue, and the Sydney Morning Herald. Within the ABC, she's worked for the 7.30 Report, Lateline, jtv, and for TV Sport in Italy at the Paralympic Games. She has a BA: media and communications, and will finish her law degree sometime in the next ten years. This is no indication of her interest in all things Creative Commons. Outside the ABC, she works for The Big Issue coordinating the NSW Street Socceroos program. She won the 2007 NSW Human Rights Arts & Film Festival award for her work with homeless and disadvantaged people in Sydney. The other week she saw a t-shirt she liked: 'them = us'.
Amelia Schmidt, intern
Amelia has recently completed a Bachelor of Arts (Advanced) majoring in English, Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney. She is taking a year off to face her fear of the working world, and is thus far successfully avoiding facing that fear by spending her time freelancing in music and arts journalism and photography, teaching music and tutoring English. Her friends believe she works for ASIO. Her interests lie currently in contemporary writing, film, and photography. She also plays in a band. Digital media, hypertext, the endless possibilities of the internet playground and the effects of the changing technology on the arts fascinate her, and she believes that engaging with new technology is a vital part of being a truly active (and interactive) artist in the 21st century.
Bridget is in her final semester of journalism and international studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her dream was once to make documentaries with the BBC and present a classical music radio program and she wonders where this Pool internship will take her. Bridget appreciates the language of sound, the musicality of voice, the art of communicating and expression and the psychology of colour. In 2007, she experienced Europe while on exchange in Pamplona and is now fluent in Spanish. She has also tasted the classics, French and German and has a keen love for Herodotus. New ideas, painting with ink, collage, foreign films and music nourish her creative spirit and voice.
