news (+RSS feed) and *ways for people to get involved*. That last
point is probably the most important thing from my perspective. What
Oh, and I made up a campaign. It's a devious ploy to get people
thinking about a census data campaign. (I think it's a great idea).
1- It's ugly. I never pretended to be a designer :)
important parts (e.g. removing the non-commercial objective. I think
English/French pages as mentioned earlier. I can translate if/once it
> I'm worried that it's going to alienate lots of potential quebec
> participants. Dèja le plupart de la site est en Anglais ansi que les
> titres des pages. Aussi, le mailing list ca se passe presque seulment
> en Anglais. Je ne pense pas que on a besoin de leur donner un autre
> raison à croire que le site n'est pas crèer pour eux.
>
> also - instead of COACID can we use Civic Access / Accès Civique?
> Both for the title and in the text? I changed the corresponding text
> in the wiki (on the front page).
>
> In general, we probably should never use COACID or the french version,
> CALIDC. Just CivicAccess.ca or AccesCivique.ca
>
>
> On 3/26/06, Patrick Dinnen <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On the maple leaf, I'm not a flag waving sort myself either. But the
> > thinking here was that without some indicator it's not at all apparent
> > that the group/site relates to Canadian data specifically. The leaf
> > seemed like a super quick and clear way of communicating that visually.
> >
> > Personally I'm much more bothered by the use of the term 'Splash page'
> > than I am about using the flag ;-) But whatever people think.
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > Michael Lenczner wrote:
> > > looks good.
> > >
> > > I would skip the maple leave, though. seems . . . gratuitous, to a
> > > quebecer at least. and it kinda looks like we might be "official",
> > > gov't funded or something.
> > >
> > > On 3/26/06, Tracey P. Lauriault <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> > >> :-)
> > >>
> > >> someday someone will have to explain to be the politics of the s word!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Patrick Dinnen wrote:
> > >> I agree that an initial page to explain a little about what the site/a
> > >> wiki is would be helpful (lets say landing page, rather than using the S
> > >> word with it's information-free connotations). Here's a 10 minute design
> > >> on how that might look:
> > >>
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=118104671&size=o> > >>
> > >> Thoughts?
> > >>
> > >> Patrick
> > >>
> > >> Michael Lenczner wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I know tracey just added some more sections to the site.
> > >>
> > >> on my side:
> > >>
> > >> 1) i think we should keep a splash page before the wiki. that way we
> > >> can at some point set up another cms if we want to.
> > >>
> > >> if we don't keep a splash page then people will link to
> > >>
http://www.civicaccess.ca to go to the wiki. To put a blog in before
> > >> that a year later would mean breaking everyone's links to the wiki.
> > >>
> > >> so we should prevent
http://www.civicaccess.ca from forwarding
> > >> automatically to the wiki.
> > >>
> > >> and 2) we should keep a splash page because many of the people who we
> > >> want to become participants of civicaccess have never seen a wiki
> > >> before and will be kinda shocked with how unprofessional it seems.
> > >> especially because it seems that we're going to have to "go live"
> > >> before we get a nicely organized wiki with lots of content.
> > >>
> > >> Steph - can you put a back a temporary splash page? and maybe you or
> > >> patrick or someone else can do a lightly designed splash page explain
> > >> civicaccess in french + english (link to suggested text below) with a
> > >> link to the wiki?
> > >>
> > >>
http://www.civicaccess.ca/wiki/Launch/SplashPage (suggested
> > >> text)
> > >>
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