[Imc-tech] Re: online prog community directory (fwd)

[Zachary C. Miller]

Here's my answer to Pauline's question:

> > Let me know your thoughts. I thought to ask you, thinking it may be possible 
> > to use groogroo.
> 
> There is a little publicized feature of the software already running
> on our indymedia server that does exactly what you want I think.
> 
> http://urbana.indymedia.org/groups/
> 
> Anyone can add a group to that page. We should make this page more
> prominant on the IMC front page and we should advertise it more. There
> was talk of having someone like Danielle do a complete redesign of the
> front page to make the features more accessible but that never
> happened. 
> 
> Ultimately I've always imagined that this would be a place where
> anyone could publicize their group (just as anyone can make news on
> our front page) and then we can replicate some or all of the group
> information in a paper directory published by the IMC on a regular
> basis (maybe in the Public i or maybe as a separate publication).
> 
> And then if we need to we can write programs to pull group information
> out of the database that is behind that page and put it in whatever
> formats we want.
> 
> If you have a big batch of data we may be able to write a program to
> populate it into that database without manually entering them all
> (although given my notorious lack of free time for programming it
> might be faster to get a data entry volunteer to just type them all
> in).
> 
> As far as community calendar goes we also have another under publicized tool:
> http://urbana.indymedia.org/calendar/
> http://urbana.indymedia.org/calendar/?display=list&days=14
> 
> -- 
> Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://wolfgang.groogroo.com/
> IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet - Ya Basta!
>  Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
>  Sustainability, Responsibility, Diversity, Democracy, Ecology
> 

-- 
Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://wolfgang.groogroo.com/
IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet - Ya Basta!
 Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
 Sustainability, Responsibility, Diversity, Democracy, Ecology