The Tech group is moving forward with some great changes to the UCIMC website and this email is both an update and a call for contribution!<br>Please reply if you have any questions or comments.<br><b><br>Calendars, Events, etc.</b><br>
Last spring we completely re-worked our calendar of events and have just implemented some additions to the site re: calendars.<br><br><i>Separate "Community Calendar" and "UCIMC Calendar" Events<br></i><ul>
<li>With so many events happening at UCIMC, and interest in promoting other community events, we've separated our events and community events into two separate calendars.</li><li>Under the <b>Publish</b>! menu, you'll see two new menu items: <b>Submit a UCIMC Event </b>and <b>Submit a Community Event</b>. This is pretty straightforward, but basically a UCIMC Event is happening at UCIMC and a Community Event is happening somewhere else.</li>
<li>UCIMC Events are not published immediately, but are reviewed by the Shows group who confirms availability, contracts, and deposits with the requesting person or group prior to publishing.</li><li>Community Events can be published by anyone, but a CAPTCHA (those little boxes that make you type in the letters in an image..) is required before publishing.</li>
</ul><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><i>What about publishing a news story with the Date/Time of Event "scope"?</i><br><ul><li>Community Events effectively replace the way we used to submit one-off news stories with "event" information</li>
<li>The vast majority of news stories are not associated with future events, and it's advantageous to separate these events from regular news stories too.</li><ul><li>Community members can now submit an event and see it on our community calendar, and it's not lost in a list of news stories.</li>
<li>We can list "Upcoming Events" in true chronological order, provide an RSS feed of events, and in the future (next steps) bring in events from other organizations via RSS feeds, creating a robust collection of events happening in this region from a number of organizations in the community.</li>
</ul></ul></div><ul><li>Lastly, the <b>Upcoming Events</b> on the top of the front page, and in the right sidebar on interior pages, <b><i>now lists <u>both</u> upcoming UCIMC events and Community Events in chronological order.</i></b></li>
</ul><b>Site redesign</b><br>We're getting ready to start a new theme design for the UCIMC.org site. If you have input into this, reply to this email or come to a tech group meeting, Tuesdays at 6pm.<br>