Posted by
Gurstein, Michael on
Mar 26, 2006; 2:49pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/trying-to-finish-up-tp374p385.html
Just back and catching up with my mail and so I'm not sure if it has
been mentioned but it might be useful to have some links to some related
and friendly organizations where the use of Civicaccess info is of
significant and visible benefit but which because of its unavailability
in Canada, these activities are not feasible...
In that context I would pro-offer the work of my friend Neil Richman and
his colleagues at UCLA -- Neighborhood Knowledge LA
http://nkla.sppsr.ucla.edu/ and Alan Toy of LILA
http://lila.ucla.edu/ .
In both cases they have mentioned to me that their projects are more or
less impossible in Canada (they've checked) because of the cost of
purchasing the digitized base maps which would allow for their community
based GIS projects to be developed.
MG
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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=oThoughts?
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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