The CCC website contains a lot of really good information about previous actions in London and those done by other groups, as well as the two posters and trade union motion. Those resources are very useful for groups thinking about what they might want to do. However, those resources are currently spread amongst the forum, the resources page, and the picture gallery. On the forum, there is, for example, great information about the Critical Mass in London. One needs to scroll down to find the no longer active topics to find this. Will new members find it if they don't know it is there? The groups information and ideas on the forum is mixed in with discussion, so it takes quite some time to find it all. I wonder about taking all the 'action ideas' and 'resources' contained on different parts of the website and putting them under a new heading (with a separate link from the home page) called, for example 'groups resources'. This would be an easy-access source of lots of ideas that others have tried out. There might be some duplication with the forum, but I don't think that matters. For example, outlines for a carbon rationing scheme would be a groups resource, but the discussion about pros and cons of having such a scheme would not. The stunts, demos and vigils in London are part of the photo gallery, which is great, but a short written summary of what was done might also go into the groups page - others might want to do something similar in their own cities (well, not the big demo, of course). Also, there might be a heading 'leaflets' where all of us could post links to leaflets we have written locally, which others could download, adapt and print/copy themselves. If groups have used other materials, eg from COIN, they might want to put in those links, too. It took us quite a while at first to write our own climate change leaflet, and new groups might not need to put in all that effort by starting from scratch. Then, there might be a heading called 'videos', with details where you can hire, buy, loan or download useful videos (whereas a discussion as to which films are good would be part of the forum). On the whole, though, the resources on the website are excellent, it's just a matter of pulling everything together into an easy to read format. But, as I said, I have no clue whatsoever about how to do it or how to design a website. |
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categorisation
Almuth
I reorganised the menu structure over the weekend and move more closely to a topic driven menu which uses Drupal's taxonomy (categorisation) feature to find all submissions on a particular topic. This is pretty close to other Drupal site like http://www.climateimc.org.
I have added 'activist resources' and 'group resources' but David B is not sure whether two categories are necessary and we might merge them.
So if you click on group resources, you now get a local group banner and nothing much else (yet).
David and I have discussed how we distinguish between tried and tested campaign material and recently submitted material that hasn't been 'peer reviewed'. And not come up with any conclusion.
new design
This new menu is much easier to use!
I agree with you about putting activists and group resources together - once the local groups and email details have been updated (it's CCC-Scotland, not CCC-Edinburgh, for example).
What about allowing any materials/information in that section, as long as they refer to things that have already been used or done somewhere, rather than just ideas not tried out yet? Including links to any leaflets which a group may have used and is happy for others to edit and print out?
Almuth
categories ...
I agree that its a great step forward, John.
On "peer-reviewing" of material I think we concluded it might be difficult for one person to decide what was finished or not, since it involved judging someone else's work. Although we could have a tag for "used" material, as you suggest Almuth. This could be a submenu of "resources", with the rest as "other" or some such. Alternatively we could have a voting system, and have the most popular items come to the top - but there's no voting module (could use comments?)
I also suggested we merge activist and group resources, since its quite a subtle distinction. Instead we could tag things with what they are (i.e. poster, flyer, MP letter etc.) and let users decide how they want to use them.
One other thing: can we use as many tags as we like, or should there be some limit? Do they all have to show up in the menus, or can we select/group which ones do (i.e. by type, subject etc.) ?
David.
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I've added some categories and tagged the stuff previously in resources. We just need to find all the good old stuff and tag it, now.
please just update
Almuth, I believe that there is an error with the yahoo list but I don't what it is. Please do update! Also sam goes for York aviation meeting.
David, there is a voting module but it is not enabled at the moment.