[Imc-alternatives] DESIGN: IRC meeting Sunday night/Monday morning

[Jay]

Hi,

A reminder that the next IRC meeting of the 
Alternatives IMC design team will happen this 
upcoming Sunday night April 27/Monday morning, 
April 28, at 9pm U.S. eastern time, which is 
01:00 GMT April 28.  If you're from Europe and 
want to come but won't be up all night, let me 
know and either we'll find a new time or we'll 
find a way to get your input to the meeting.  We 
will meet in the #alternatives room on the chat.indymedia.org server.

The goal for this meeting is to come to some kind 
agreement on a rough sitemap, then to figure out 
how we can move from here to doing wireframes 
(kind of like a storyboard).  I have already put 
my thoughts about a sitemap in the alternatives 
group section on our Crabgrass page 
(https://we.riseup.net/michaelv/step-one-sitemap+7378). 
Michael also added some unfinished thoughts, 
which I'll pasted below.  Please add your 
thoughts to that page, or e-mail them to this list, before Sunday.

Jay

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Michael’s Thoughts about what the site might look like:

When I have thought about “Alternatives” I have 
imagined that the site in and of itself would 
represent an alternative vision, or visions, of 
what an IMC site can look like and function as, 
how it could continue to evolve as the needs of 
the community evolve and change
.as the times and 
technologies change. To me, Alternatives 
represents a wide-opened gateway to introduce the 
public to new, innovative tools and resources. 
So, in other words, I don’t only think we should 
be a space for discussing or announcing 
alternatives, but exploration and leading by example(s).
    * Skill-shares and Labor-exchange (Crabgrass 
will actually have these as features, I believe)
    * Video-sharing: Essential for any IMC, but 
in this context would provide a great documentative aspect to the site.
    * Photo-sharing/galleries and slideshows:
    * Forums
    * Freebay.org-like aspect (could be an integrated part of want-lists)
    * Bartering aspect to want-lists: where 
people can post skills or materials wanted, and 
what skills/materials they might have to barter in exchange.

(not finished, will add more tomorrow).
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