[Imc-alternatives] irc meeting next sunday the 23rd?

[robbt at azone.org]

What time? 

I'll be filming a memorial to an media activist during the afternoon. So if
we could make it a noon or 10:00am meeting EST, that would make it 5:00pm
or 3:00pm GMT, but West Coast US people it would be 3:00 in the morning for
Australians. So maybe that wouldn't work out great. Where are most people ?
And what time would be best for those in Oceania ?

Anyways, as far as progress goes. I haven't really touched it except to try
to get people on board and mess with random settings. I think a meeting
would be good.  

I setup recaptcha but that might not be compatible with true anonymous
publishing as it uses a third party service with an API from our site, so
we might want to use something else. The drupal based text captchas seem
pretty easily defeated by bots these days though, so it's up for
discussion.

I mean the site is ready to go as far as publishing content.

I guess my main concern regarding this project is that there isn't really
anybody motivated to publish using it, there are already a lot of sites
dedicated to this type of content at this point, without interlinking more
with the IMC network as a whole what will make it useful. Really the only
way to build an audience is to aggregate/link to other content and gain
interest that way, and if you get enough people focused on your site you
can link to original content. At least that is the formula I see most
successful blogs like boingboing and others take. 

Also the whole idea that we are building something to just get it up with
the intention of switching it to a as of writing undeveloped system makes
me less focused on this. I'm just not sure what our design goals for this
draft our. The newswire with open-publishing is up using the taxonomy
developed previously. I guess we could drive traffic to our site using the
Cities list, especially if we get included on it, but at this point I'm not
sure that there is enough on the site to do this.

I heard from Nick who wanted access but I'm not capable of giving out
access at this point, and there is a lot of work needed to convert even a
CSS mock-up to a drupal theme, which I could possibly help with, but I'm
pretty sure it would seen very arcane to a graphic designer with no drupal
background.

So that's my thoughts for the moment. I'd be happy to talk on IRC with
people if we can figure out a time that I'm able to make.



On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:04:10 -0500, Jay <jay at fundamentalchange.net> wrote:
> Hi imc-alternatives,
> 
> I'm guessing from lack of response that people aren't itching for an 
> irc meeting this upcoming Sunday (the 16th).  I've heard reports of 
> work on the site happening behind the scenes though, so there has 
> been hforward progress.  Maybe we could bring the behind the scenes 
> work to the front of the scenes and meet next Sunday the 23rd to touch
> base?
> 
> Nick, any design updates?
> 
> Robbt and Josh, any Drupal updates?
> 
> Strypey or anyone, any more thoughts on taxonomy or editorial policy?
> 
> Me, any idea how annoying I'm being nagging everyone else for updates?
> Jay
> 
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