Re: [hackers] Draft Deanster Design Doc and other stuff

2003-07-30 Thread CMR
> interested> > Stop yer scarin me! > I would be tempted to tie this back to some of the paradigm issues I hear > discussed concerning the campaign. To what extent are connections > centralized? That smacks of a top-down approach as opposed to a bottom up > approach, particularly in terms of t

Re: [hackers] Draft Deanster Design Doc and other stuff

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Koenig
Here's where I begin and end on this. It is in fact the nature of the "beast" and one can choose, as a "player" to work for change within it (and risk being consumed by it), or work outside for it (and risk being "used", then ultimately sidelined by it) or choose to sit it out and navel gaze to

Re: [hackers] Draft Deanster Design Doc and other stuff

2003-07-30 Thread CMR
> That last sentence, cast in bronze. "Ours is but to choose > individually." > > Whatever your opinion on the Dean campaign and how they interact with > us, it's up to individuals to make their choices. This group is an > informal association, and I don't think we're going to make a > collective d

[hackers] Abandoning current theme project

2003-07-30 Thread Lynn Siprelle
I'm abandoning the grassroots theme because it's the butt-ugliest thing I've designed since 1995, and that's saying something. (Don't believe it? See http://www.siprelle.com/sandbox .) I've got one other theme idea I'm going to give a run at (black and white). Somebody point me at something. L

Re: [hackers] Pointing towards something

2003-07-30 Thread stantoam
Hi Lynn - If you're looking for something more, I would point you back to the endorse module since you did such a good job with it. I'm not sure where/to who I described this before (hopefully I did it on the list), but I've come to see endorse as two parts: 1) personal messages (which you have

Re: [hackers] Draft Deanster Design Doc

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Koenig
Independent of the terminology, I believe it is crucial for any sort of online community building tool to facilitate interaction between the users above and beyond merely listing information. I am concerned from what I am hearing, that such functionality seems to be missing from 'Deanster' and I

Re: [hackers] DeanSpace host

2003-07-30 Thread CMR
Thanks to all who recommended hosting outfits; I checked into all of them and they we're all great deals (I personally was sold on DreamHost so I'm planning on giving them my business for my own non-project content; thanks Matt). But as it turns out, some valued project participants with both the

Re: [hackers] Abandoning current theme project

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Koenig
I'm abandoning the grassroots theme because it's the butt-ugliest thing I've designed since 1995, and that's saying something. (Don't believe it? See http://www.siprelle.com/sandbox .) I've got one other theme idea I'm going to give a run at (black and white). Somebody point me at something. Ju

Re: [hackers] Pointing towards something

2003-07-30 Thread Lynn Siprelle
If you're looking for something more, I would point you back to the endorse module since you did such a good job with it. Well golly thanks. :) I needed that since I'm not feeling overly competent today. Anyone looking at the grassroots theme can see why. (Actually, I got frustrated over somethin

RE: [hackers] Draft Deanster Design Doc

2003-07-30 Thread Zephyr Teachout
What josh said :) Zephyr Teachout Internet Organizing & Outreach Dean for America [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meetup at http://www.deanforamerica.com/meetup Get local at http://action.deanforamerica.com Contribute at http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTE

[hackers] IRC Meeting - 5 minutes....

2003-07-30 Thread Zack Rosen
Wednesday, July 30th, 8:30 PM EDT - #hack4dean irc.freenode.org Here are some topics i we came up with.. http://www.hack4dean.org/phpwiki/index.php?IrcMeeting Go add your own, cya there. -Zack

Re: [hackers] Abandoning current theme project

2003-07-30 Thread CMR
- Original Message - > 1) You guys/gals are doing great work. > 2) Are you (any of you) open to "requests" for themes? > 3) Are any of you open to mentoring other graphics people who might > want to create themes? > I'm going to try my hand busting out some themes; I've got drupal installe

[hackers] Notes From Meeting

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Koenig
Here are the high points from tonights IRC meeting; it was long but productive. Mostly I've taken note of things that seem "actionable" or which affect our immediate progress. The most important thing that happened was a hashing out of our "vanilla" site kit feature list. This is what we're wo

[hackers] Easing potential conflict between "homegrown" sites and DeanSpace

2003-07-30 Thread Josh Swartzbaugh
Hello everyone! First I'd like to say that I'm very happy to be a part of this group. :) Uniting the various Dean movements is going to be one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to change this country's direction. It's not often that you can feel that you are really making a difference i

[hackers] Easing potential conflict between "homegrown" sites and DeanSpace

2003-07-30 Thread Josh Swartzbaugh
Hello everyone! First I'd like to say that I'm very happy to be a part of this group. :) Uniting the various Dean movements is going to be one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to change this country's direction. It's not often that you can feel that you are really making a difference i

[hackers] Meeting Notes / Transcript up on the wiki

2003-07-30 Thread Zack Rosen
http://www.hack4dean.org/phpwiki/index.php?EighthIrcMeeting Ping and I argued long into the night about the feasibility of a distributed media network. Anyone interested in the discussion should read it. -Zack