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[Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign
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Tim Dobson |
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[Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign |
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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:52:25 +0100 |
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Tim Dobson wrote:
Now we have at least one new local group starting up in the South East,
an increasing number of interested people and a pretty logo, I think
it's the right time to start thinking about developing a prominent web
presence
I was thinking of a web presence along the following sort of lines.
DFEY.org would be a backbone organisation providing structure, direction
and links, perhaps a bit like lug.org.uk in some ways.
Lets start with mailing lists.
Hopefully, lists would be provided by the Savannah project,
www.nongnu.org - mailman servers are really really hard to run well and
the guys at Savannah do a great job at making our lives as easy as possible.
We should be able to, on request, set up new mailing lists for new
localgroups (hopefully dfey-*-discuss format).
I think there should be a dfey-general-discuss for general
non-geographical discussion and perhaps dfey-admin-discuss for
non-geographic administration boringness. :)
DFEY.org
The DFEY.org home page would be fairly simplistic, concise and low on
text content, linking one to several other main pages (again, concise,
small amounts of text) and a "more" page containing links other content.
On the three main pages, perhaps we would describe DFEY, talk about
local groups and mention how you can get involved. (The last two seem
very similar - maybe not those two!)
*.dfey.org or dfey.org/
In my opinion, local groups should have their own web presence. It
shouldn't be forced, but a local DFEY group in Kent and in Glasgow, as
much as they might all wish to meet face to face, probably aren't going
to, and would probably like to design their own region specific DFEY sites.
Wiki's
I don't know about wiki's. Wiki's are great for adding ideas to,
collaborating on stuff, planning meeting, discussing stuff...
But you have to work VERY hard to make them work as a homepage as the
important info gets hidden in links that don't appear too be obvious.
I can see the benefits for having a unified wiki for local groups, but
at the same time there's a lot to be said for running one's own.
The DFEY-NW wiki needs a cleanup; there is no doubt about that.
Logo's
I imagined dfey.org using the vanilla DFEY logo and local groups using a
template of the logo with then the region they revolve around underneath
in text. Take a look at this page to see what I mean.
http://nw.dfey.org/wiki/Press_resources
IRC
I would imagine that the #dfey channel would start to become more
focused on non-geographic discussion and that #dfey-* would become used
in general for discussion about geographic stuff.
There have been discussions about different networks, however, for the
time being, lets stick with freenode and discuss it in detail once we
have a new website online.
I can imagine various people have differing opinions... if you have a
lot to say, maybe try and keep one mail/segment so the conversation
threads nicely.. gah that's me just being OCD ;) don't worry!
Tim
- [Dfey-nw-discuss] DFEY website redesign, Tim Dobson, 2009/07/13
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- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Tim Dobson, 2009/07/14
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- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Richard Thompson, 2009/07/15
- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Isabell Long, 2009/07/15
- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Robert Leverington, 2009/07/15
- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Isabell Long, 2009/07/15
- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Richard Thompson, 2009/07/15
- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Robert Leverington, 2009/07/15
- Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Re: DFEY website redesign, Richard Thompson, 2009/07/15