[Community] Re: [UCIMC-Tech] An idea for our website

[Joshua King]

Hi everyone,

I think all of these ideas sound great. There have been a lot of ideas
around this stuff lately, but I haven't had much time to act on them
personally. However, I think it's time to move forward with major changes to
the way that many of the IMC's websites work. I should have some time this
weekend to put some of the framework in place, and then maybe we should have
some kind of a hack session for tossing around ideas and doing some
implementation. If we have a good number of tech savvy people there, perhaps
we can even get some work done in building it. Right now I'll create a
googledoc and toss my ideas for web infrastructure on it (something that
though I haven't had much time to work on I have been thinking about in
depth for a long time), and we can all put in our ideas and feature
requests. I'll add everyone on this CC list to the googledoc, if you got
this message through one of the mailinglists, send me an email and I'll add
you to it.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Elizabeth Simpson <elizacorps at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  Hi all,
> This is a great idea. In addition, we've had ongoing needs to have an
> online 'backpage' for IMC and workgroup internal to do lists, notes, and
> other stuff that isn't for the general public.
>
> I know there is an RFU wiki link (but no wiki) so I assume there is wiki
> software somewhere...
>
> A wiki format would be great- there could just be a generic login and the
> peeps would populate it as needed.
>
> Part of that means that people with project ideas (like grants, outreach
> initiatives, etc) could put it up there and other peeps could pick them up,
> preventing the bottleneck that happens when only one or two people know
> about something.
>
> -E
>
> A strong people need no leader
> - Zapata
>
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 9/3/09, Jay Schubert <jay.schubert at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jay Schubert <jay.schubert at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Community] Re: [UCIMC-Tech] An idea for our website
> To: "Nicole Pion" <nicole.pion at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Josh King" <joshuaheretic at gmail.com>, community at lists.chambana.net,
> "Brian Duggan" <bcdugga at gmail.com>, "IMC-Tech List" <imc-tech at ucimc.org>,
> "Jacob A. Barton" <udderbot at gmail.com>, "Danielle Chynoweth" <
> chyn at ojctech.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 1:58 PM
>
>
> This sounds like a great idea, Nicole.
> - Jay
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Nicole Pion <nicole.pion at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=nicole.pion@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I've been reflecting on how big my job is and how many things I want to
>> do, but haven't been able to accomplish.  One thing I'd like to do is
>> communicate the AWESOME things that I see taking place here.  I think this
>> is part of the community connections focus, so I've included you all here
>> for your input.
>>
>> I'd like to ask the Tech group to create a webpage on the IMC site called
>> "Inside the IMC" or something like that (Other ideas welcome - it doesn't
>> have to be so corny)...is this possible?  It would basically be a page with
>> the capability to upload stories and pictures.  Could it be a header one the
>> line with Public i RFU BTP?  I considered asking people to just submit to
>> the general news website as stories, but I actually think we need a our own
>> page so that it is clear that this is the work that is happening at the IMC.
>>
>>
>> Our role would be to invite specific people to write stories and see that
>> they do.  There are plenty of topics:  the SkillShare, the Indy Media and
>> Arts Lab, the BTP Book Sale, our new tenants, Amasong, C4A and OddMusic.  I
>> can't htink of a month where there hasn't been someone/thing that would make
>> an interesting story.
>>
>> It would be a great way to digitally archive the work that people are
>> doing at the IMC.  Once a month, I can send out an email directing people to
>> the site with teasers, etc.  Basically, this is our newsletter done in a
>> format that is time efficient for us all.
>>
>> So, what do people think?
>>
>> Nicole
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nicole Pion
>> Outreach and Development Adviser
>> AmeriCorps CTC VISTA
>> Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
>>
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