[Imc-alternatives] weekly check-in: August 12/13

[Jay]

Hi imc-alternatives,

There wasn't a whole lot of activity in the #alternatives chat room 
yesterday at 22:00 gmt, but ekes, davo and I did get a chance to 
touch base.  Here is a quick summary of the previous week's advances 
in the alternatives project.

1) PUTTING UP A BETA SITE:
There has been inspired discussion about putting up a "traditional" 
Alternatives IMC site as soon as we have drupal code for one, most 
likely sharing the PhillyIMC's revised code.  We would add 
community-building features to the site in the kind of monthly 
roll-out pattern generally suggested by the agile-development model 
(http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/agile-development). 
There was general enthusiasm for this idea.

Strypey: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0808-0t.html
Jay: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0809-le.html

2) REVITALIZING the CODE-TRACKER
Aaron K. and Dave F. connected over revitalizing the code-tracker 
Dave set up a while ago for the alternatives project:
http://svn.axxs.org/projects/alternatives

3) USER-STORIES DISCUSSION
There were posts going through the user-stories
http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/user-stories one 
by one to explore their technical possibility as well as the 
political reason we would pursue each of them.
Ekes:http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0808-fh.html
Jay: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0811-mg.html

4)NEWSWIRE/KNOWLEDGE-BASE DISCUSSION
The discussion about how to balance a beta Alternatives site's 
"solutions-wire" with its knowledge-base and networking functions 
took off in earnest:
Strypey: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0808-0t.html
Jay: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0809-ar.html
Strypey: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0809-ua.html
Jay: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0811-q1.html

5) WIKI/WYSIWYG DISCUSSION
There was talk about the difference in offering site visitors the 
option of using WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors on our 
participatory pages:
Aaron K: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0807-iu.html
Dave F.: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0807-wz.html
John M.: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0808-r8.html
Strypey: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0809-8h.html
Josef: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0808-n1.html

6) DESIGNER TASK DESCRIPTION
Thought began about developing a task description for a design team 
bottom-liner:
Aaron K. 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-alternatives/2007-August/0807-zw.html

Thanks everyone, for an engaging and productive week.
Jay