[Yourtopia] Current wireframe status, open questions

Thu Apr 5 10:42:07 BST 2012

Hey Marian,

Thanks a lot for this update.

I think it looks brilliant so far, we will have a Working Group monthly
meeting next Wednesday at 5pm, so I would suggest that we could do a
Yourtopia 2 catch up session right after that that outline what needs to be
done to complete the project. Would it be ok for you to join us at 5:45 pm?

> Under which URL will Yourtopia 2 run?
>Probably http://yourtopia.net/ - just as the current one.
>What are we doing with the current version? Move to subfolder or subdomain?

We should possibly retain the old version of Yourtopia and its URL. We
could do one URL for Italy - http://yourtopia-italy.net. If we later
implement this for more European countries with the data of Eurostat  we
could do http://yourtopia-europe.net. What do you think?

> Do we want to keep the logo as is? How about the rest of the look and
feel?

Possible we could do "Yourtopia Italy" logo - we could ask some of the
people with experience in design for some advice.
In the series sheet of the dataset, there are also icons that I suggested
to use for the indicators. Would it be possible to implement them? Maybe
with one icon per category.

> What content should be displayed underneath the "create index" app on the
start page?

On the startup page I would have a 2-3 sentence intro text with a single
heatmap of Italy (maybe visualising GDP per capita) and the icons of the
indicators (as currently) - maybe with the question - "Is another Italy
possible?"

> Probably we want to write a short about text with link to "Learn more"
page.

We have been already writing some texts here:
http://econ.okfnpad.org/yourtopia2 - we can decide next week what part of
that we should use and I prepare the final text if the others would be busy.

> When a few dozen Yourtopias have been created, we can also promote a link
to the "browse all" page and give the current number of created yourtopias.

Can we do automatically some stats? The regions which have come first, but
also which indicators have received the highest weights and which the
lowest?

>How to implement the email sharing mechanism?
>Making sure email reaches the recipient can be a pain in the ass.
>Sharethis.com and addthis.com have email sharing as part of their solutions

I am not familiar with the details, I trust you on that.

> How will the application look when data for all more countries is
available?

I would imagine that we could have an entry page with a map of Europe and a
drop down menu to select which country to calculate Yourtopia for.

Hope that helps, look forward to a team meeting!

Velichka

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Marian Steinbach <
marian.steinbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I'd like to share the current status of wireframes with you in order to
> get a next feed back round going and get ideas on some open questions. Here
> is the link:
>
> http://www.sendung.de/cust/okfn/yourtopia/wf-20120403-1200/
>
> Probably they aren't self-explanatory. I'd like to walk you through if we
> manage to set up a team session.
>
> Here are some open questions -- not necessarily all of them need answers
> right away:
>
>    - Under which URL will Yourtopia 2 run?
>       - Probably http://yourtopia.net/ - just as the current one.
>       - What are we doing with the current version? Move to subfolder or
>       subdomain?
>
>
>    - Do we want to keep the logo as is? How about the rest of the look
>    and feel?
>    - What content should be displayed underneath the "create index" app
>    on the start page?
>       - Probably we want to write a short about text with link to "Learn
>       more" page.
>       - When a few dozen Yourtopias have been created, we can also
>       promote a link to the "browse all" page and give the current number of
>       created yourtopias.
>       - Alternative: Show the last three (or three random) yourtopia
>       tiles, as visiable on the "browse all" page.
>    - How to implement the email sharing mechanism?
>       - Making sure email reaches the recipient can be a pain in the ass.
>       - Sharethis.com and addthis.com have email sharing as part of their
>       solutions
>    - How will the application look when data for all more countries is
>    available?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marian
>
>
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Velichka Dimitrova
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Economics and Energy Projects
Open Knowledge Foundation
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