[Imc-alternatives] IRC meeting/ Project Direction

[Jay]

Maybe we could schedule an IRC meeting for Sunday, November 16?

At 10/22/2008, you wrote:
>Kia ora koutou
>
>There seem to be a number of interrelated things that need to be sorted
>out in a more coordinated way. The exact wording of the editorial policy
>will depend on the moderator functionality the site offers. The
>application of the visual design will depend on certain back-end
>functions being in place. What functions we need will need to be
>separated out and clearly listed, although much of it is suggested by
>the designs Nick has put together, with more detail on our wiki.
>
>To move these things forward, I suggest having an irc chat session of
>the implementation team. I will be flat out with exams and election
>campaign for just over 2 weeks, but after that I can set aside some
>time to work on this. Can we get some indications of who'd like to
>participate in such an irc meeting, and when they are available after Nov 8?
>
>Jay:
>On the name AlternativesIMC. Yes, I think since we were fairly evenly
>split between alternatives, and solutions (some us internally split ;),
>it seems sensible to stay with the name that we've been using since the
>start.
>
>Robbt:
>The project has very clear direction, it might help if you read the
>documentation we've assembled on our wiki...
>http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/
>
>...and our networking site on Crabgrass:
>https://we.riseup.net/imc-alt/
>
>Are you aware of all the functions that an IMC newswire needs?
>1) anonymous publishing of articles and comments, with no logging of IP
>addresses or anything else that could identify users
>2) moderators can move articles and comments off the newswire to a
>'hidden files' area, linked from the front page
>
>and some more that are useful:
>4) moderators can promote particularly well-written, and well-researched
>articles as features
>5) moderators can rethread articles as comments (in case someone replies
>on the newswire instead of commenting on the article)
>6) ability for moderators hide articles from the web but keep them in
>the database
>
>There seems to be no way to do 1) on AltIMC.org yet. Can it do 2)? Can
>it do any of 4), 5), and 6)?
>
>Nick:
>Would it be possible to begin applying your visual design to what we
>have so far, even if just means starting with the front page, so we can
>start to get an idea what the final product will look like.
>
>If there is no Drupal module(s) that provide the Activist Networking
>functions we want, what about linking to our Crabgrass site on
>We.Riseup.Net, and applying Nick's visual design to it? That would mean
>we don't need to figure out how to migrate that data if we change
>codebases. We just link the new site to the same Crabgrass site.
>
>BTW It's really promising to see projects like open source social
>networking tools like Crabgrass, and Elgg emerging. I'm particularly
>interested in the Open Data Definition that Elgg are proposing, and the
>Open Social standard that Google have been working on with a number of
>the mainstream social networking sites. Would email have taken off as a
>tool to the degree it has if you could only email people on the same
>server as you? I think it's an important medium/ long term goal that our
>networking system interoperates as easily as possible with others'.
>
>RnB
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