[wplug-plan] web page issues
Greg Simkins
gregsim at telerama.com
Thu Jul 20 20:43:26 EDT 2006
Count me in on the web design effort. I am actively working to improve my
skills in that area.
I am not a fan of raffles, but I really want to know more about CMS.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Semcheski" <lists at immuneit.com>
To: "Planning List for WPLUG" <wplug-plan at wplug.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug-plan] web page issues
> Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
>> One thing that's come up a few times in the past is the need for a
>> new sexier website for WPLUG. So here's an idea to float. Bribery.
>> Yes, bribery. You can tell I'm big on this (from the board
>> discussion about it for members meetings), because it really works.
>> Here's the idea, lets do a contest. The winner gets some prize. Not
>> a crappy prize like a T-Shirt, but something decent, like a VOIP
>> phone, a WRT54GL, or the likes. We'll see if it can be donated or
>> what not, or buy it.
>
> Patrick,
>
> I think the idea of using bribery is a good enough idea to be a
> foundation for redesigning the website.
>
> But its a complicated issue. "... moving the web site off of OpenACS
> and onto a more reasonable CMS. Among other features, this would give
> us wiki functionality..."
>
> First we'd have to define 'reasonable' (not too hard). Once thats
> done, we have to find a CMS that fits our definition of reasonable
> (harder). Then, we have to agree on what features we want (getting more
> difficult) and agree on how things should be set up (yikes).
>
> Here's what I would like to do:
>
> Advise anyone who's interested to join the wplug-web mailing list.
> (From this point on, when I say 'we' I mean interested parties.) We
> kick around ideas with the preliminary goal of brainstorming. After
> that, we kick out a basic set of goals for the website. Sort of a
> vision statement. Then, we figure out how we want to get these
> completed. Simultaneously, there's another set of interested parties
> who figure out what kind of stuff we can use for the bribery.
>
> Finally, we look at the vision statement, look at the items we've
> drummed up, and decide how we're going to trade one (bounty items) for
> the other (fulfillment of the vision.)
>
> This is just an idea, but I think it might add a little bit of structure
> that would reduce the ad-hoc nature of 'see what you can do, and we'll
> see what we can give you.'
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Mike
>
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