I think it's a great idea. I'm trying to find someone to do a mockup, then we
can try to implement a prototype at the Birthday Sprint.
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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>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.
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>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.)
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>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
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>I agree with you Mike.
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>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.
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>Therefore, I think we should include more information about HOT, where we have
>worked and how you can get involved on the homepage.
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>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).
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> 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.
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>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.
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>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
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>*new editions
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>I am open to thoughts, comments and feedback.
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>Thank you for taking the time to read my brainstorm!
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>On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Mike McCaffrey <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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>Hey folks,
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>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?
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>>Thanks!
>>
>>Mike
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>>On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Yohan Boniface <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
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>>You mean to use it as marker icon? If yes, it's not possible at the moment,
>>sadly. But it's planned ;)
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>>>On 07/25/2013 10:14 PM, Katrina Engelsted wrote:
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>>>I think we should switch to *umap*, so that it is more accessible to
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>>>>all. Not sure what the easiest way to upload the HOT logo would be
>>>>(@Yohan, got any suggestions?).
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>Cheers,
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>Katrina E.
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