Collaborative Work Day, March 7th (this Saturday!)
Tim Bowen
Come help us improve the TDAC website this Saturday (March 7th, 10am to 5pm) at the downtown creative space at 115 E Broadway. (map it)
We’ll start with as much time as people want to spend working and exploring this Saturday, then see if we want to do another day on Saturday the 14th.
Come and participate for as much of the time as you wish: a few minutes, an hour, or all day.
Designers, copywriters, coders, thinkers, tinkerers—all are welcome to
join the collaboration. There should be something for everyone, but
we’ll probably focus on WordPress plugins and themes.
Bring your laptop.
Here are some of the things which we can work on:
Design / usability
- Clean up design and content. Add credits area for those working on site.
- Add more content boxes for profiles. Images too?
- Re-organize homepage to be more logical.
Enhancements and fixes
- Easier Event posting. Sign up for events?
- Avatar uploading troubleshooting
- Member directory troubleshooting (clean it up, make it big grid?)
New features (plugins or theme changes)
- Twitter feed to stream all the TDAC members’ Twitter updates
- Connect Forum to BuddyPress
- Jobs board (separate blog)
- Link to Facebook. use “facebook connect” ?
- Search site feature
- Podcasting / Videocasting
- Add survey and polls
- Featured work gallery that members can submit to?
The core of the TDAC site is built using WordPress MU: http://mu.wordpress.org/
Some good WP MU specific plugins: http://wpmudev.org/plugins/ and http://wpmu.org/
We are also using some of the modules/plugins from BuddyPress: http://buddypress.org/
Info about extending BuddyPress: http://bp-dev.org/
Most of the WordPress plugins will work with this installation: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Please leave a comment on this post if you're going to make it:
http://tucsondigitalarts.com/blog/2009/03/02/collaborative-work-day-march-7th/
Lance Willett
Come help us improve the TDAC website this Saturday (March 14th, 10am to 2pm) at the downtown creative space at 115 E Broadway. (map it)
Our first collaboration day was a success so we’re doing it again. A big thank you to Liz, Josh, Tim, Aaron, and Lance for their time last Saturday -- we accomplished quite a bit.
This Saturday we’ll continue to look at everything from adding new features to improving the existing site.
Bring your laptop.
A brief wrap-up from last Saturday:
- We spent much of the day breaking down big issues and prioritizing them into "fix now" and "future features". Here is a list of those issues. You are all invited to view the list and make comments.
- Work has started on getting all our custom themes and other code into Subversion for versioning and backup purposes. If you are interested in contributing your design or development time, come to the meeting to find out more details. For working with Subversion, we recommend Versions and svnX on the Mac, and TortoiseSVN on Windows.
- You can review all of our notes from the last meeting: http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/view/ANqaGhlaxN/k44gUrePdx.
http://tucsondigitalarts.com/blog/2009/03/07/collaborative-work-day-part-2/