About Pool
last updated: 19.08.08
Pool is a social media project being developed by ABC Radio National. It's a place to share 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 makers.
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.
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.
Tag
Tag your content so it makes it easier for other users to find your work and make connections.
Contact
Get in touch with the Pool team. We are open to your feedback and ideas!
The Pool Team
Pool editorial team:
Executive producer: Sherre DeLys
Producers: John Jacobs, Kate Gauld, Gretchen Miller
Pool interns: Timothy Dodds, Dan McHugh, Emily Naismith
Pool education consortium:
Ross Gibson, Norie Neumark, Shannon O'Neill, and Darrall Thompson from University of Technology, Sydney; Marius Foley from RMIT; Brogan Bunt and Terumi Narushima from University of Wollongong; Tom Ellard from UNSW College of Fine Arts.
Thanks also to Tim Mansfield, Ben Byrne, Ali Edwards, David Harwood, Creative Commons Australia.
And to past interns: Anna Yanatchkova, Julienne Chan, Nicolas Apave & Don Cameron.
Pool web development team:
Technical lead and theme development: James Gollan
Developer: 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. It was chosen by the Pool development team because its design philosophy has a lot in common with Pool. Drupal is a flexible, community focused way of creatively collaborating.
More about the Pool Team
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
John is an ABC broadcaster, social media activist, electronic and mechanical inventor, 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 weekly remix program, The Night Air.
Kate Gauld, producer
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'.
Gretchen Miller, producer
Gretchen Miller is a writer, radio producer, composer and maker of audio arts. She works at ABC Radio National. Her work has been broadcast in Germany and France and reworked for live performance at the Studio, Sydney Opera House. She has a passion for travelling into the Australian inland, camping rough and collecting sounds from the natural world, tales that float across the landscape. She loves stories from the past that reveal something about our present ... and intimacies that reveal the poetry and the archetypes of the human condition. And she's really delighted with the extraordinary world of the imagination out there that Pool brings to her doorstep!
Tim Dodds, intern
Tim is a student studying honours in communication at the University of Technology, Sydney, majoring in media arts and production. More critic than creator, his main areas of academic interest are the sound arts (especially in the context of video games and sound installations), 20th century Japanese cinema, and contemporary Korean and Chinese cinema. He is also an avid gamer, film buff, lover of analogue modular synthesisers, AudioMulch and VST Plugins. He is currently working on a thesis about the experience of sound and music in video games, and using player input to affect digital sonic environments.
Emily Naismith, intern
Emily is in her third year of studying Media at RMIT in Melbourne. She is interested in social media and online interactivity, thus has developed a slightly inappropriate crush on media-guru Henry Jenkins. She is a community radio broadcaster who loves all kinds of music, especially when it is remixed or mashed up into something completely different. Her other interests away from the computer are cooking/eating, playing games on mobile phones from 2001 and developing new nicknames for her two dogs.
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