[UCIMC-Tech] ucimc.org website updates

[Chris Ritzo]

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!
Please reply if you have any questions or comments.
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Calendars, Events, etc.*
Last spring we completely re-worked our calendar of events and have just
implemented some additions to the site re: calendars.

*Separate "Community Calendar" and "UCIMC Calendar" Events
*

   - 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.
   - Under the *Publish*! menu, you'll see two new menu items: *Submit a
   UCIMC Event  *and *Submit a Community Event*. This is pretty
   straightforward, but basically a UCIMC Event is happening at UCIMC and a
   Community Event is happening somewhere else.
   - 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.
   - 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.

*What about publishing a news story with the Date/Time of Event "scope"?*

   - Community Events effectively replace the way we used to submit one-off
   news stories with "event" information
   - 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.
      - 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.
      - 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.


   - Lastly, the *Upcoming Events* on the top of the front page, and in the
   right sidebar on interior pages, *now lists both upcoming UCIMC events
   and Community Events in chronological order.*

*Site redesign*
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.
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