[Imc-alternatives] [content] taxonomy fusion

[Jay]

Hi all,

So, we have two different suggested taxonomy lists, one from the old 
alternatives feature:

-- Organizing Society
-- Economics
-- Environment
-- Political Structures
-- Education
-- Media
-- Health
-- Criminal Justice
-- International Decision-Making/"National Defense"
-- Personal Choices
-- Conceiving the Alternatives (theories)
-- Living the Solutions (practical examples)
-- Resources (books, movies, study guides etc.)

and one from EVOLVE:
-- Learning & Education
-- Spirituality & Religion
-- Art & Culture
-- Environment & Infrastructure
-- Health & Wellness
-- Relationships & Empowerment
-- Energy, Food & Water
-- Economics & Business
-- Science & Technology
-- Communications & Media
-- Governance & Law

I like the "this & that" nature of the EVOLVE list.  How about we 
steal some of theirs for ours, and mush some of ours into theirs
-- Organizing Society (this would be about political systems and 
governance, collectives, co-ops, etc.)
-- Learning & Education
-- Economics & Business
-- Communications & Media
-- Art & Culture
-- Environment & Energy (Could include food & water issues?)
-- Spirituality & Religion
-- Famly & Home (having a hard time with this one -- it should be 
about "alternative lifestyles" and the way people live their 
lives.  In the old alternatives feature it was "personal choices."  Help!)
-- Health & Wellness
-- Law & Security (this could cover transformative justice and 
alternatives to the prison system as well as international law and 
alternatives to war)
-- Conceiving the Alternatives (theories)
-- Living the Solutions (practical examples)
-- Resources

I don't know what to make of "Science & Technology" from the EVOLVE 
list since those may fit into all the categories.  I'm also not sure 
what they meant by "Relationships & Empowerment," though I think they 
were trying to get at the same thing I indicated above (family & home?).

Let's improve on these.

I assume we'll be able to let people choose a couple categories for 
their articles -- up to three?  In addition to having users 
categorize their articles could we also have them list tags so we can 
have some kind of tag cloud so people can search for information that way?

Jay





>Robbt,
>
>The list of categories from the original "alternatives to corporate 
>globalization" feature are:
>
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Organizing>Organizing 
>Society 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Economics>Economics 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Environment>Environment 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Political>Political 
>Structures 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Education>Education 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Media>Media 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Health>Health 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Criminal>Criminal 
>Justice 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#International>International 
>Decision-Making/"National Defense" 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Personal>Personal 
>Choices 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Conceiving>Conceiving 
>the Alternatives 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Living>Living 
>the Solutions 
><http://poetpiet.tripod.com/2002/phillyimc-alternatives.htm#Resources>Resources 
>
>
>We should probably hone those, but that's a start.
>
>>If this is going to be open publishing we will need to implement
>>something along the lines of peer moderation etc, but it could be done
>>by a few moderators at first.
>
>Yeah, we'd need a few volunteer moderators to keep the focus on 
>alternatives.  (so we don't end up with a "solutionswire" that's 
>full of spam or press releases about protests that don't fit our content.)
>
>We've envisioned the eventual full super-cool site to include a 
>variety of login levels.  I think for this pre-incarnation we should 
>do a streamlined site that has very few bells and whistles, just a 
>place to start gathering content and hone in our focus on 
>alternatives projects, relevant ideas and appropriate news.
>
>
>>Captcha would probably also be essential for preventing spambots from
>>taking it over.
>>
>>I'll help with it when I can, your write Jay let's get this site up,
>>even if it isn't perfect.
>
>I think we should try to make the real CakePHP/Joomla site perfect. 
>:)  This is just to get us going in the right direction.
>
>Robbt, do you and Dave Fregon know each other?  If not, you've kind 
>of already met on this list.  Maybe you could work together to get 
>something up and running a.s.a.p.  Josh from Philly is out of the 
>game for a few weeks, but has offered to help with a drupal version 
>too once his time clears up.
>
>Jay
>
>
>>Robbt
>>
>>Dave Fregon wrote:
>> > I can i have a plone site up tomorrow.
>> > Drupal folk i can do that too.
>> > Having the sites up may kick people into gear to work on them..
>> > Dave
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