[okfn-discuss] Lucy and Jonathan: question re new Working Group pgs

Fri Jun 10 10:59:59 UTC 2011

Hi Kat,

Good work - I really like the layout, I think you've got most of the
key features in there!

Don't be afraid to send things like this to okfn-discuss (Cc'ing now),
that is exactly what the mailing lists are designed for. As Rufus so
frequently says to me *be BOLD* ;) (<- look a real smiley!) - people
on the list are lovely and provide really constructive criticism. It
will also help raise people's awareness of the fact you are doing it
so that they actually join the groups ))

A couple of things we may consider:

How can we condense this info so that it is as terse as possible? It
would be great if we could get the key info compressed into a
screen-sized page so that everything is displayed without people
having to scroll down. For some groups this will be easier than others
and your job may be to think a bit wider than this page to whether
each group needs a specific blog etc. where much of the info can be
displayed...

1. PROJECTS: Perhaps links to the projects (if they exist) with a 1/2
line summary of the project. I'm not much help in this particular
instance but maybe people on the list can point you to any specific
project group pages.
2. PEOPLE:  Some groups have full lists of members on their blog (e.g.
http://science.okfn.org/members/) - and we can just link to that for
shortness.
3. IMAGE: People on the list may be able to help with this. I think we
have a standard EU Open Data pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5808813915/ - it would be good to
establish some continuity across the projects... some projects won't
have their own logo (that's where you come in ;)) - but it would be
good to crowdsource to see what is out there first!

Hope that helps ))

Lucy

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Kaitlyn (Kat) Braybrooke
<kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi you two,
>
> Have started going through the Working Group pages on the OKFN site and
> making them into Groups on the 'Group' page. However, it seems like there's
> very little I can do on these Group pages as far as HTML/CSS/visuals. Here's
> the one I created for the EU Open Data Working Group, for example:
> http://okfn.org/groups/working-group-on-eu-open-data/
>
> It seems that the WYSIWYG editor form won't let me add any basic HTML other
> than <em> and <strong> tags, which is quite limiting. even <li> elements
> seem to be depreciated.
>
> What do you guys think? Do we need pages that are more open as far as design
> possibilities, or are these better as alternatives to the existing Wikis
> because they'll allow members themselves to easily edit them?
>
> - Kat
>
>
> | Kat Braybrooke
> | Community Coordinator
> | Open Knowledge Foundation, London UK
> | Web: http://okfn.org, Tweet: http://twitter.com/@kat_braybrooke
>

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Lucy Chambers
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Open Knowledge Foundation
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