I also have proposed recently, at the Tech WG meeting, a Top menu bar that
would contribute to present the various HOT pages as a unified project (ie.
blog, Task Manager, Export, etc.) and simply inform people about the various
aspects of HOT projects.
This is a simple way to better document information and let people find their
way rapidly, either if they are interested to learn about projects, to learn
how to contribute, to lookup rapidly at the documentation (wiki, tutorials), to
find how they can export data, etc.)
This should surely necessitate a bit of thinking from people involved in
various aspects of HOT.
Pierre
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De : Katrina Engelsted <[email protected]>
À : Mike McCaffrey <[email protected]>
Cc : hot <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : Jeudi 25 juillet 2013 21h53
Objet : Re: [HOT] HOTOSM.org Drupal tweaking? - Blog comments & updates feed(s)
I agree with you Mike.
I took a look at google analytics on the website and, as seen by the pages that
people visit, the website attracts (1) people that want to learn about HOT (via
the "about" page) and (2) people that want to get involved.
Therefore, I think we should include more information about HOT, where we have
worked and how you can get involved on the homepage.
I envision an interactive map (OSM of course) with markers and pop-ups showing
where and what HOT has been doing. These pop-ups/column would have links to
the task manager (so that people can get more involved).
I think we should make it easier for volunteers to learn how to volunteer
digitally through www.learnosm.org, the tasking manager, mailing list, etc.
That needs to be more prevalent on the site.
Lastly, I think that the community and people involved should also be
highlighted via a community page. Not quite sure what it would look like, but
would include more blurbs about HOT members and have their hotosm email
accounts. This would be super useful because it could take a lot of the emails
away from just [email protected] and distribute it more to people in specific
areas.
1. interactive map (blurbs about projects, etc) with blogs*
2. digital volunteering (learnosm, tasking manager)*
3. project pages
4. faces of HOT*, about HOT community, board, staff, etc
5. History and about of HOT
*new editions
I am open to thoughts, comments and feedback.
Thank you for taking the time to read my brainstorm!
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Mike McCaffrey <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey folks,
>
>
>There has been talk of upgrading the current site to Drupal 7, and other folks
>requesting new functionality being added, and both are all well and good.
>
>
>However, it might help us figure out to best proceed if we had a clear idea of
>what we are trying to accomplish with the website. Who are the target
>audiences, and what are we trying to get them to do? What are the goals, and
>how do we measure them?
>
>
>Has there been any sort of discussion about this sort of stuff in the past,
>and are there perhaps any documents that have already been produced? If not,
>are folks interested in spending the time to have that discussion?
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Yohan Boniface <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>You mean to use it as marker icon? If yes, it's not possible at the moment,
>sadly. But it's planned ;)
>>
>>
>>On 07/25/2013 10:14 PM, Katrina Engelsted wrote:
>>
>>I think we should switch to *umap*, so that it is more accessible to
>>>
>>>all. Not sure what the easiest way to upload the HOT logo would be
>>>(@Yohan, got any suggestions?).
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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Cheers,
Katrina E.
@MappingKat
www.mappingkat.com
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