[Imc-drupal-dev] boston imc site down

[mark burdett]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:43:09 -0800, Sofia JarrinT wrote:
> Would the imc-drupal team be interested? I think what I would like to 
> avoid is re-inventing the wheel if people have made tons of progress 
> on other sites (ie, radio indymedia).

hi, well the radio site is pretty basic. it only handles audio uploads, 
no video or photos or other things on your list.  probably other sites 
have made more progress?

> I wish I was a techie to be able to help, but I'm not...  But mark I 
> think had an idea on how I could be able to help, and I'm willing to 
> do so.

I can tell you how things work in my local imc: we don't have separate 
editorial and tech collectives, we just have a web collective.  at the 
web meetings we all figure out together how we want to make some change 
or improvement to the site, hash out as many details as we have time to 
and put together a small (e.g. 3 person) team to work on the design, 
mockups, development, testing, etc.  a few years ago when we rebuilt our 
site & codebase it was definitely a whole group effort to figure out how 
the site should work and rebuild it (still an ongoing process..)

probably the way we do things doesn't work everywhere.  but at least I 
think it's a good mindset for everyone using the site on a daily basis 
to be heavily involved in designing improvements, prioritizing what 
should be worked on, etc.

--mark