[Tech] 06/23/2007 GRP Tech Meeting notes

[Melissa Harrell]

I'm more than happy to set up and maintain the myspace.  I'm doing Grace's
and my own and it'll only be a five minute investment to keep up with yours
as well.  I'm assuming communications will be writing the introduction since
this is an official party thing.

Melissa

On 6/23/07, Jamie O'Keefe <jokeefe at jamesokeefe.org> wrote:
>
> Including the communications director since some of the issues effect
> communications.
>
> 06/23/2007 GRP Tech Meeting notes
>
> Attending: Dan Melnechuk, John Saylor, Jamie O'Keefe
>
> Status of the server update
>         dan will do reinstall this weekend so the system boots and people
> can
> start setting stuff up
>         dan will also install a ticket system - rt / track / bugzilla.  it
> will require a login
>         stuff to move over:
>                 websites / email / emaillists
>         decided we will go with apache 2.0
>                 each site has its own include file which should improve
> maintenance
>                 each site will have its own log file with simple naming
> convention,
> domain name maybe
>
> Status of the database cleanup
>         jamie is cleaning up addresses
>         dan will send voter (haven't received yet) and contributor lists
> and
> jamie will append them
>         jamie will then send the final list to get cleaned and identify
> dups
>         jamie will remove dups by hand
>         jamie will then send the list to a service to get phone numbers
>         jamie will setup civicrm
>         jamie will merge the final list into civicrm
>
>         jamie will look at using the google maps api to geo code the
> supporter records
>
> Status of instructions on upgrading zope to plone
>         jamie will talk with eli
>
> blog
>         john sent the info he gathered on blogs in plone
>         open question, does plone 2.0 have a blog?
>         it would be good to have support for
> digg/del.icio.us/technorati/etc,
> but we might need to update the plone code ourselves to add these
> features
>
> What should we replace webalizer with?
>         we decided we do not want to share any data with a third party
> site
> like google analytics
>         we will try ed's analyzer suggestion and analyze our old logs as
> well
> to get a better history
>
> Setting up spaces on various social network/media sites
>         social networks would be useful for connecting with our supporters
> and identifying new ones
>         most have some way of marking a user as a friend of another user
>
>         here are a few we can use:
>
>                 myspace:
>                         probably the most popular, but pages look awful
>                         it is unclear how easy it is to maintain them
>                         presonal pages are public
>                 facebook:
>                         up and coming site that is probably next most
> popular after myspace
>                         college orientation, but with more people joining
>                         ui is nice and clean with everything in its place
>                         has groups feature, and users can enter notes,
> pictures, etc
>                         at least on a user level, easy to ask to link with
> other users
> rather than inviting people to join facebook
>                         personal pages are private
>                 orkut:
>                         much more popular outside of us
>                         has groups feature
>                         ui is barebones
>                         limited ability to link with friends w/o inviting
> them
>                         personal pages are private
>                 flickr:
>                         very popular good photo sharing service
>                         has groups feature so users in group can post
> pictures to the group
>                         used by the irish green party among others
>                 youtube:
>                         very popular video sharing site
>                         used by many candidates/green parties as a means
> of distributing videos
>                         more exploration is necessary
>                 jaiku:
>                         new site for aggregating blogs, flickr/youtube
> posts, RSS feeds and other
>                         posts are designed to be short, 150 characters
>                         entries can be sent to mobile phones
>                         has groups feature, but is still in beta
>                         probably the best site seen for distributing quick
> alerts
>                 twitter:
>                         new site for distributing quick alerts
>                         posts are designed to be short, 150 characters
>                         entries can be sent to mobile phones
>                         no groups feature
>
>         action items:
>                 myspace - ask if someone wants to setup
>                 facebook - jamie created group
>                 orkut - jamie asked rich z to be admin of the grp group he
> created
>                 flickr - jamie will setup and put up grp pictures he has
>                 youtube - ask if someone wants to setup
>                 jaiku - jamie created group, still exploring
>                 twitter - probably should setup, but jaiku seems better
>
>         once get approval from communications director, will put links on
> site
>
>         dan suggested that we make use of call desk software that makes
> calls
> local between two phones a local call via voip
>
> Next meeting:
>         July 28th, 2pm, 25 Moore St., Somerville
>         will be on skype, contact id is jpokeefe
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