Web Image Development

Goal:

Primary: Develop A robust information source for all parties interested in OSE and specifically Factor E Farm, containing information for donors and volunteers, including on and off-site collaborators

Secondary: To further develop the web image of OSE, utilizing opensourceecology.org and reorganizing the wealth of information on Open Farm Tech.

Vision:

Primary:

- A simple mechanism for keeping interested parties informed about all past, current and future projects, including progress and impact of donations (i.e. showing dollar amounts connected to in progress and completed projects)

- A well developed set of publicity resources, such as PDF brochures and such, containing information for potential donors and volunteers, as well as a press kit.

- A listserv to let folks know whats goin on, that can even be updated off-site with enough information (i.e. if they are really busy, a quick skype interview), and another where collaboration and discussion can happen

Secondary:

- Development of opensourceecology.org as a main page for OSE, kind of like a portal, then further links from sidebar take you to well developed openfarmtech.org pages with embedded navigation, similar to what appropedia did with opensustainabilitynetwork.org.

- Portal would include latest Factor E Live, Weblog feed, Latest OpenFarmTech updates, and listserv feed possibly?

unfinished email: Web Development Stuff:

this stuff is awesome, i linked to it on the http://www.openfarmtech.org/index.php?Web_Image_Development page (i have been watching the 'recent changes' page on openfarmtech, this would probably be a good one to turn into a feed for the portal.)

found this app that will turn articles into feeds, and then this for posting feeds (for the portal).

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XFeed_-_RSS_Feed_Aggregator http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiArticleFeeds

If you turn Factor E Live into a channel or series, possibly through another site than youtube, then there can probably be a constantly updating embed. Also, we can feed latest pictures from flickr somehow i am sure.

All of this requires installing relatively simple extensions in mediawiki, or even having the surface webpage for opensourceecology.org be html with all kinds of embedded stuff, linking to the blog and openfarmtech.org, kind of like appropedias opensustainabilitynetwork.org. Then subnavigation as they do as well, etc.

If you could give us broad categories for openfarmtech, we can go through and apply those, and then do further subcategories