[Imc-alternatives] implementing solutionswire - content and tech tasks (was: alternativesimc.org should be working soon)

[Jay]

Hi everyone,

At 10/14/2008, strypes wrote:
>Kia ora koutou
>
>It sounds like the first priority is to get the solutionswire in place
>on the Drupal beta site (which from now on I'll refer to as AltIMC.org).
>After all, we can't in all honesty call ourselves any sort of IMC
>without an open-publishing function, right?
>
>This has two elements:
>
>editorial - we need to write an editorial policy for AltIMC.org, to lay
>out how volunteers will apply hiding/ deleting powers on the
>solutionswire, how content will be chosen for the features column etc. I
>will write more on this in a separate email.

Great stuff in the other e-mail.  I'll respond there.


>tech - implementing open-publishing on AltIMC.org. Philly techs have
>done set up an IMC newswire on their IMC, and various other IMCs are
>currently running Drupal, so presumably they have too. There is some
>documentation on the docs wiki, including this:
>http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ImcDrupalDev

Good.  I'll get in touch with the PhillyIMC techs and ask for any 
more specific advice.

Jay


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