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Join the Community: build your profile, add your favorite videos relevant to the œ community, friend the people you know and join groups. Each œtool has a group where we discuss and provide support for specific tools. | |||
Join a Project: Once registered, hover over the home tab and click Projects. This will take you to our project management system where you'll be able to join an existing project or create your own. | |||
Post an Article: Once registered, hover over the home tab and click Articles. This will take you to a 'submit' page where you can add articles, organized under sections and categories. Read about our sec/cat org system here. | |||
Tweet with #openecology to get on the openecology home page. | |||
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Revision as of 16:32, 20 October 2010
Welcome
OpenEcology.org Alpha: http://transformativecommunities.com/openecology/
Start
Join the Community: build your profile, add your favorite videos relevant to the œ community, friend the people you know and join groups. Each œtool has a group where we discuss and provide support for specific tools.
Join a Project: Once registered, hover over the home tab and click Projects. This will take you to our project management system where you'll be able to join an existing project or create your own.
Post an Article: Once registered, hover over the home tab and click Articles. This will take you to a 'submit' page where you can add articles, organized under sections and categories. Read about our sec/cat org system here.
Tweet with #openecology to get on the openecology home page.
Architecture
Wireframes
OpenEcology v.1.1: File:OpenEcologyv1.1.pdf
Home is a place for graphical explanations, news, social media, etc. Once you've signed in, you'll also find the Community Management tab come down, which is a light weight project management system (Project Fork) we're considering using to manage the team that maintains/develops the site and online community.
About is static content explaining the effort. I've iFrames (wrapper) relevant info from the wiki into this section. This is only temporary as we'll add this content as pages with graphics and designs over the next few days.
oe Tools (name changed from products/projects) is the main area for accessing information about the tools being created. This is going to be our biggest challenge as we'll need to produce a custom page template.
Community has the following features:
- A social network (jomsocial) that we should start using as our primary communication platform.
- A forum that integrated with the social network and the broader content management system
- The Wiki. Right now it's only a wrapper of the current one but we'll be integrating it into the broader system in the next few days.
- A directory to list the people, places and things in the open source universe.
- Bottom tool bar with chat so you can IM with anyone on the site.
We can use what we like, remove what we don't and change things around. These features are a starting point.
Blogs are narratives from people using oe tools. We recently found a way to place multiple wordpress blogs into the joomla site, which means people have independent wordpress blogs (no reason for everyone who wants to contribute to learn Joomla) within the site that are integrated to the site's other features as well as the other blogs. I think we should encourage key people/places developing and deploying oe tools with us to have their own blogs. We should import the current openfarmtech.org/weblog into the site, rename it factorefarm and have it be our first place/land blog. My friend with land in Pennsylanvia could be a second. As more and more people/places start participating, we can recruit them into our blog network, which will become an exceptional collection of narratives, an awesome media property and source material for people who want to take the insights from the blogs and add them to the wiki, products etc.
Resources is where we can place the most essential and useful pieces of media - videos (powered by jomsocial), books, documents and links. We might want to place the directory here...we'll see how it develops.
Join Us has articles labelled 'opportunities' on the left side. This is where we can post volunteer/job descriptions and the like. On the right side are our social media modules: Calendar, Twitter, Facebook, BEEx. We could also use Identi.ca, which is an open source twitter... what do you think?
Store is a pretty simple application with a shopping cart and many payment options. The product information section isn't very deep. When people want to buy tools section, we plan to link them to the store's page and vice versa.
In general, let's try and keep discussions away from email and on the forums and social network.
Excited to see you on the site!