[Tech] Interesting site redesign idea

[Eli Beckerman]

Interestingly, this site uses a new idea called FairSource code
(basically outsourcing
with the fair trade model in mind). Their site was implemented by
ifPeople(www.ifpeople.net).

I think a blog makes sense in addition to a new website. There are
lots of green blogs
out there (http://www.greencommons.org/greenbloggers/). And we would
be well-served by putting out an alternative to bluemassgroup.com with
a Green-Rainbow editorial perspective. We could consider a feature
that would let users rate postings and so important posts could
trickle up to a more prominent position, as well as editors having
that power.

I agree it makes sense to consider first what we want the website to
do. And I hope
that ComCom can help in that regard.

On 11/28/06, Jamie O'Keefe <jokeefe at jamesokeefe.org> wrote:
> I was looking at sites that use plone, but don't look like they are
> using plone out of the box and I happened upon the Business Alliance
> for Local Living Economies (http://livingeconomies.org/).
>
> One thing I really liked about it was that two of the top of the three
> columns had a Featured ... section.  In this case they were Featured
> Network and Featured Entrepreneur.  The third column started with a
> two paragraph summary of what the organization is, how many people are
> associated with it and where they want to go.
>
> We might consider a similar layout with:
>
> o  left column having the summary followed by other stuff
> o  middle column having a featured local chapter or activist
> o  right column having our latest news/notice items
>
> just a thought.
>
> Jamie
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