[Boston-editorial] Fwd: IMC tech meeting notes - Sunday, March 13

[Matthew Williams]

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> From: Nicole Hennig <nic at hennigweb.com>
> Date: March 19, 2005 3:11:03 PM EST
> To: boston-tech at lists.indymedia.org
> Subject: [Boston-tech] IMC tech meeting notes - Sunday, March 13
>
> Hi webitorial group,
>
> I finally had a chance to write up the meeting notes from last Sunday. 
> Hope I captured most of it.
>
> Did I get the date right for our next meeting? Sunday March 27? I know 
> we agreed on 4 pm, but I forgot to write down which Sunday it was! I 
> think we wanted to meet 2 weeks from the last meeting.
>
> Nicole
> p.s. What other list do you usually send this to? Couldn't find that 
> list address. Feel free to forward.
>
> -------------------
> Indymedia webitorial group
> meeting notes, march 13, 2005
>
>
> 1. The new server seems to be fine. Yay!
>
> 2. ideas for troll problems:
> 	maybe we could do this for comments:
> 	-use logins with names and passwords (may be easier with Drupal to 
> set this up)
> 	-your comments are more visible to others if you log in (higher 
> priority)
> 	-anonymous comments still allowed, just that you can do more if you 
> log in
> 		(other sites are like this)
>
> 3. Continued visioning process for web site.
> 	- productive discussion
> 	- focused on reaching out to diverse communities
> 	- would be great to get more people involved in the web visioning 
> process if we are to reach out to more communities
> 	- invite more diverse groups of people to work with us on the site
> 	- revisit the categories
> 	- add press releases to news wire?
>
> 4. How to get to a new web site?
> 	- idea: Drupal workshop (Robbie?)
> 	- get a lot of people working on it
> 	- recruit more tech people (esp. Drupal skills)
> 	- ask on Drupal lists for help
> 	- contact other groups in Boston that use Drupal
> 	- maybe there could be a class project (MIT?) that helps us out
> 	- interships
> 	- use email lists and/or craigslist to recruit techie help
> 	- put up flyers around MIT - Pete will make flyer
>
> 	we need:
> 	- Drupal people
> 	- HTML people
> 	- graphic design people
>
> 	prioritizing the vision
> 	- functionality
> 	- design
> 	- start small, then build from there
>
> 	what is worth changing on the current site until we get to a new site?
> 	- depends on how long it could take to get to a new site, so far it's 
> been thought not to do anything on the current site.... focus all 
> effort on a new one
>
> 5. Google News - not indexing our content
> 	- Nicole will contact them to ask them to crawl our features pages 
> (done)
>
> 6. Next meeting:  Sunday, March 27, 4 pm
>
> MIT -- Dome Cafe, bldg. 7, 4th floor
> http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=7&Buildings=go
>
> Go in the main entrance of MIT (77 Mass. Ave., the building with the
> big columns), and you will be in bldg. 7. Look for an elevator in the
> far left corner... take it to the 4th floor. You will see tables and
> chairs when the door opens. That's the Dome Cafe. The tables are in an 
> open hallway so you can sit there even when the cafe is closed.
>
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