On Nov 7, 6:09 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been loosely involved in Île Sans Fil, a free wireless community
> group here in Montréal for a few years and just the few messages I've
> seen in this trend remind me of what happened there for years. As
> Nick's second message to the thread higlights, were are already
> diverging into multiple discussions and if we aren't careful it can
> quickly get worse and we all lose interest and/or run out of available
> time to deal with it.
Exactly... lets keep it simple. If we see such a demand for some
features after it launches then we can add those later.. for now I am
thinking a handful of pages and links to the blog and wiki in a very
carefully detailed content plan.
> What I would suggest is:
>
> - If the blog is on wordpress.com, switch it to our own install of
> WordPress on a shared host space.
> - Come up with a simple minimalistic design, something that's nice and
> clean but not too flashy or in too radical a design direction, so has
> to maximize our chances to agree on something.
> - Configure that new WordPress to have the blog on a subpage and a
> "static" frontpage.
> - Start wiki pages or Google docs to write up and collaborate on a few
> pages, Nick's outline is a very good start.
> - Once the design and new WordPress install are ready, integrate the
> content using WordPress pages.
> - That's it. Quick, rather painless and that way we don't mix up too
> many discussions about direction, features and semantics. I think such
> a site would be a big improvement on our first impression making and
> can super easily be edited if we want to keep fine tuning our content
> and the way we present the movement.
Perfect. And good idea about Wordpress. And I think that others on
this thread have already voiced similar approaches. We all seem to be
on the same page here right?
> In a phase 2, then, we can get into longer discussions about other
> features and more detailed content. I think something like Drupal
> could then be envisioned, with planet like aggregation, member
> profile, space profiles, mapping of spaces based on those profiles.
> (The member and places profiles can also serve for the visa program.)
Oh no.. you used the "D-Word" ...oh my.... well, so long as I never
have to deal with it or use it, i don't mind :P Anyway, a discussion
about which CMS to use if we should do a 2nd phase of the site is,
well, a 2nd phase discussion that can happen later. :)
- Nick
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