[imc-scotland-discussion] Shiny new features on the site

[Jon]

Groovy man, like it.

Solid.,

Jon


Tom wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> Although the decision-making cranium of Indymedia Scotland quietly died
> some time last autumn, the body itself has been positively wriggling
> with the activity of hundreds of autonomous contributors.
> 
> In keeping with the rotting corpse covered in autonomous maggots
> organizational model, I have continued working on new capabilities for
> the website. One of the features I have wriggled away at is to allow
> importing of articles from RSS feeds.
> 
> This means that campaign groups and grass-roots journalism from the
> likes of burgh angel, etc, can be imported directly into indymedia
> scotland without those writers having to submit their story twice.
> 
> The RSS-imported articles appear (hidden to normal users) in a queue,
> awaiting editing (or deletion, if they are not appropriate for indymedia
> scotland). Probably editors will want to add categorisation to these
> articles before they are unhidden and appear on the regular newswire.
> 
> The next issue is how we decide as a group which RSS feeds should be
> imported in this way. I though that since we don't have face-to-face
> organizing meetings anymore, it might be easier to put RSS feed
> proposals to an online vote of site contributors, that is anyone who has
> written a decent story in the last wee while.
> 
> What do people think about this?
> 
> Editors can have a look at the demo site http://scotland.imcscotland.org
> for an example of imported feed (ECAP feed is imported on the demo site).
> 
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