[UCIMC-Tech] ucimc.org

[Chris Ritzo]

To be completely fair, none of your work has been deleted. The site's been
moved for a month now and this is the first time anyone's mentioned that
images weren't there.
Moving the site just means that we need to adjust a setting or two and
they'll be visible again like the last time. I'll make sure Josh has access
to the site and will work on the images also.

I agree with Josh about fundraising, as volunteer efforts to revamp it seem
to be met with mostly deaf ears.

The IMC also needs to decide intentionally what a future website looks like
and what features it should have.
- should it continue to be a totally open publishing platform? has that
ship sailed into obscurity and spam land?
- should it be two sites? one to represent the organization and one to be a
community forum/news site?
- should the website also be considered an archive where things published
live in perpetuity? if so, is Drupal the right platform for that? can the
IMC support that?



On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Josh,
>
> Right here<http://ucimc.org/content/why-does-sheriff-small-midwestern-college-town-need-drone>is my drone article with a b/w photo of the sheriff's drone.
>
> BD
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Josh King <jking at chambana.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> Though my time remains limited, I have a little more free time now to
>> help out with fixes as of yesterday. I do not yet have access to the
>> server where ucimc.org but I can get that. I think the issue with
>> pictures is probably just a permissions problem with the files after
>> moving the site, I can't imagine that the pictures are gone. Can you
>> give an example of a URL where a picture should be displayed and isn't?
>>
>> I think that as far as updating the site, it would make sense for the
>> IMC to do some fundraising to hire a designer to redo the look and
>> structure of the site.
>>
>> On Thu 14 Mar 2013 04:06:46 PM EDT, Brian Dolinar wrote:
>> > I mentioned to Danielle my sadness that ucimc.org is in bad shape.
>> > Nowadays, I'm the only one posting there, other posts are just adverts
>> for
>> > the IMC. What is even more disappointing for me is that my years of
>> photos
>> > have been erased in the web page's new version. This happened the last
>> time
>> > there was a renewal of the page. Almost 10 years of my photo journalism
>> has
>> > been erased. Now I have an article on Joann Dorsey, famed black
>> community
>> > activist, with a great photo of her, but don't know whether it's worth
>> > posting at ucimc.org. I can just as well send it to Smile Politely and
>> > they're happy to have it.
>> >
>> > Is there a way we can get some fresh blood at ucimc.org? Most
>> immediately,
>> > is there a way to fix photos?
>> >
>> > We have a long history in this community and have made some tangible
>> > changes, I don't want to see the web site die out.
>> >
>> > Thanks folks,
>> >
>> > BD
>> >
>> >
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>> Josh King
>>
>> "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal,
>> but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker
>>
>
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