[Imc-alternatives] questions about indy-alt implementation

[john duda]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:54:50PM -0500, Jay wrote:

> -- "Network" which is our "social justice networking" area where 
> individuals and organizations will have profiles and use tools we 
> provide to organize their own projects and collaborate with each other.

it would be helpful to know what these tools are.  

> Because of the way he categorized it (and maybe, if we add an 
> opportunity to tag articles, depending on the tags he chooses), the 
> article page would also offer links to News articles on the site 
> about Solar power, articles in the Knowledge-base offering 
> step-by-step instructions for building DIY solar projects, and to 
> profie pages of individuals and organizations from the Network 
> section who do solar work.

ok, there's definitely going to be tagging. in fact, i just added
tagging to the site.  still need to make the related content show up,
but it's a start.

> 
> >do we want
> >these pieces to be "structured", i.e. more like books with chapters,
> >or just plain flat articles?
> 
> Hmm.  I say we should steal liberally from the structure of WikiHow, 
> Instructables and other similar things.  Whatever works for them, 
> that's what we should do.
> 

hmmm...wikihow's editing interface is kind of intense.  i like the
structure of steps and warnings, but somehow it just seems like a
wikimedia hack.  i don't think users should see the syntax...just add
steps.  i'll play around with this and see what i can do.

> 
> The idea of what actually will appear on the "network wire" is still 
> a bit fuzzy, but I think it would inculde a list of the most recent 
> or most recently updated profiles, and maybe posts from forums or 
> from an eventual "wants/needs" section (sort of like a 
> craigslist/classifieds section for alternatives projects).  I like 
> the idea of the smiling faces of the most recent people who have 
> posted profiles appearing on the main page as well as on the networking page.
> 

so basically, what we're starting with here is user profiles. we can
offer blogs and forums here as well, but maybe we should also ask
user/orgs for an existing blog url feed, and we can grab content they
are posting elsewhere.

it would be definitely cool to have the organic groups here, so you
could do things like make a network of infoshops part of the
alternatives imc.

also, maps! lots of maps! 

-john

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