[Imc-drupal-dev] boston imc site down

[Sofia JarrinT]

hi,

ok, so our Boston Imc site is officially down now, and we have no idea how to fix it. I just sent an email to the Imc-tech to see if we can get someone who knows Dada to get it back up and shut it off, so the server doesn't die on us again.

In the meantime, I hope we can get a basic drupal site up? Could we maybe use some of the energy we had for the proposal to work on this? Ben I know is willing to have his team on it (although not necessarily the time), but I think it would be nice to take advantage of this to pull together a team to work on a distribution...

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).

I'll be happy to help on the content side of things, ie menus...  Basically, I think the site gets the most use of:

- the Newswire
- a community Calendar
- a way to upload audio reports (community radios in Boston are extremely active)
- video reports (needs to include a way to embed videos)
- photo reports
- RSS feeds from US Indymedia and Global Indymedia (and Worcester Indymedia)

In an ideal world it would also have:

- Media in Our Community (links to other groups in Boston making media...)
- Other Press section (for outside the Imc)
- a Community Art section (similar to photos, but focused on local art pieces people can download for use)
- a "Blogwire", for people to upload links to their blogs

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.

best,
Sofia




----- Original Message ----
From: mark burdett <mark at indymedia.org>
To: Benjamin Melan?on <pwgdarchive at gmail.com>
Cc: imc-drupal-dev at lists.indymedia.org; Stefan Freudenberg <stefan at agaricdesign.com>; Dan Hakimzadeh <dan at agaricdesign.com>
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 11:15:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Imc-drupal-dev] IMC related drupal documentation and wishlist

I'd say they work basically the same.
I've not done a point by point comparison but probably some blogger has.

--mark

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:16:32 -0500, Benjamin Melan?on wrote:
> Good point.  You've used both?  Do they work basically the same?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:04 PM, mark burdett <mark at indymedia.org> wrote:
> > Hi, there's one thing I would like to point out about Github: It's a
> > proprietary service, run with software that the users can't see or
> > modify.  Gitorious.org is an equivalent project run using Free
> > Software.  This means you could maintain your own private gitorious, or
> > if they went bankrupt and disappeared you could revive the service
> > yourself.
> >
> > I myself have some code on Github and don't mean to sound preachy or
> > worse, hypocritical here :) But I think this is something we should
> > think about when setting up infrastructure for indymedia projects.
> >
> > --mark B.
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