Thanks Brian for this update and thanks to your great team for pulling this together. As many of you know, during the POland Summit we reached the decision that the only way to make the community writing and uploading by themselves was to transfer the content to a more easy-to-use platform The current one was designed and run by Fabricatorz and was a bit difficult for a normal user to keep updated, and needed an admin..so we thought that would be better if everybody in the community takes the responsibility to write, post and upload by him/herself instead of having layers of mediation I `d like to thank Bassel, Jon and the Fabricatorz team for the great work they did, they built the website from scratch and make it alive with cool stuff.They have also done the CC Asia site, which is incredibly cool..and the team is still working in doing workshops about open source in the region, the last one being in Qatar.. but at this point, as discussed in Warsaw, we need an easier to use platform, accessible to every single user, which is something that this platform designed by CC Qatar on wordpress provides. The goal is that each one among you could write a post, a news, etc and update the site by him/herself without passing by any mediation. Everybody in the Arab community should contribute with news, updates, events. Eman from CC Jordan has volunteered to curate more "advanced" content, i.e. features and articles that we might want to have in the site (and translate into arabic the stuff that needs to be ttranslated). But for the more day-to-day stuff (news, updates, etc) should be handled by each of you, and I`d love if all the countries were we have active communities in the region could post news about events,meetings, projects , just to keep the others updated I think also that this website has a very important feature, i.e. the forum feature, that will contribute to move many of the discussions we had here on the mailing list to a more public and open place. This will help transparency a lot. Everybody could launch a topic for the forum which will just need an initial registration, but then the flow of messages will be free I also think that many of the news we are exchanging here should be in a public place and open, and we do need a sort of "repository" where we can keep track of what we are doing in the region in terms of projects, events etc.. I hope you can have a look at the website template sent by Brian and send your feedback asap. The reason why we need to launch soon is because there are activities planned in countries new to the CC community (like Algeria for example) and we need to have a public place where to address people for information, outreach etc We could eventually change the website features in the future, of course. But if you could have a look in these days and send comments to Brian by next week, this would be very much appreciated to have a better start sorry for the long email and, again, a big thank to Fabricatorz for launching and running the website for years, and to CC Qatar for taking the lead now and designing the new version waiting for your feedback salam dona
On Nov 17, 1:14 pm, Brian Wesolowski <[email protected]> wrote: > CC Friends, > > Attached is a proposed design for a revamped CC Arab World website. It was > developed by Jean-Marie from the CC Qatar community :) It was developed on > Word Press, with the intent of making it very easy for people to directly > contribute content and also be an easy platform for future open source > development. The design is based primarily on the CC Qatar > (www.creativecommons.qa) website and has the following: > > - Basic content about CC and the licenses offered > > - A "blog" feature that allows for affiliates to upload content from their > locale directly > > - 3 blocks to feature primary stories, either highlighting something from > an affiliate or sharing a region-wide story > > - A live Twitter feed compiling tweets about the affiliates > > - A forum feature that will allow for community wide conversations on any > CC topic - check out the demo here:http://forumpress.org/ > > - The site will be available in both Arabic and English > > At this point, we are seeking feedback on the basic design and any > functionality that is missing. Please send any comments to me by > Wednesday, November 23 for consideration. Once we have feedback, we'll > update the design and Word Press template, populate it with some basic > content (from the CC Qatar website) and push the site live. It will then be > up to the community to populate it with relevant content about their > affiliate. > > All the best, > > Brian > > CC_Arab_world_design-v2.jpg > 1127KViewDownload -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar.
