[okfn-discuss] Community.okfn.org

[Rufus Pollock]

To follow this up. Major problems as identified in those vision discussions:

It is unclear to the average observer (and often even to those more
involved with our work!):

  A) What we're up to
  B) Who's doing it
  C) How you get involved
  D) [maybe not so important] What the decision making structure is

community.okfn.org is an attempt to address this by:

  1. Integrate project and working group info in a single place
  2. Centralized "recent changes" to give an overview of what we are up to
  3. Create a dedicated space for OKFN "members" and others involved
in what we're doing so the community becomes visible. (This will also
be the concrete implementation of the governance structure discussed
last November [1])

We want both:

  * Input on the technology (wordpress versus drupal versus plone versus ...)
  * How to do 1+2+3 with given technology (e.g. anyone out there
familiar with drupal profile pages?)
  * What else we should be doing (see
http://wiki.okfn.org/WebsiteRedesign for current discussion)

Regards,

Rufus

[1]: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2009-November/006976.html

On 2 February 2010 12:32, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As you know the Open Knowledge Foundation is a community-driven
> organisation. For a while we've been thinking about how we can
> re-design the OKF site to better reflect this community [1]. In
> particular we would like to make it easier for people to see who is
> out there, what they are interested in, what they are working on, and
> so on.
>
> To this end we've been started working on community.okfn.org:
>
>  http://community.okfn.org/
>
> This currently uses Drupal + CiviCRM. Any thoughts, suggestions or
> help would be most welcome!
>
> [1] http://wiki.okfn.org/Vision and http://wiki.okfn.org/WebsiteRedesign/
>
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> Jonathan Gray
>
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> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>
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