Re: CrisisCamp Toronto
Nate Aune
Thanks for your interest in helping out with the HaitianStories.org
website. I'm cc'ing Kyle and Deborah who are also working on
HaitianStories at CrisisCamp Chicago today, so you should coordinate
with them to make sure you aren't working on the same thing. Perhaps
we could meet in the #haitianstories IRC channel on irc.rhok.net. Or
if you aren't familiar with IRC, we could start a Skype conference
call instead with all the folks working on it today. My skype un is
"nateaune".
We can also coordinate via the HaitianStories google group mailing
list. You can subscribe here:
http://groups.google.com/group/haitian-stories/
So here are the tasks that we could use some help on:
0) We need a logo, perhaps something incorporating the Haitian flag,
but that's just a suggestion.
1) home page look and feel
2) add new story page (make this form easier and more intuitive to
fill out: http://haitianstories.org/add/text/)
3) contributor page (ex: http://haitianstories.org/story/2/) - make a
page that highlights the contributor with photo and biographical info)
4) search form (improve the usability of the search form)
5) translate the site into Creole French, if you have any Creole
speaking persons who can help out with this, or use the
auto-translator available from Microsoft.
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/
If you can just try posting to the site and report any bugs or
improvements that you think can be made, that would be helpful. If you
have design or usability experts on your team, they could create
mockups or better yet, HTML with CSS that we can plug into the
templates
thanks!
Nate
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jose Leal <jose...@wikidomo.com> wrote:
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> HaitianStories.org site. Can you give us a run down on how the project is
> structured. We need some direction as to the posting process.
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Nate Aune
I made a list of tasks (technical, non-technical and
promotional/marketing) under the implementation plan section on the
CrisisCommons wiki:
http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/HaitianStories#Task_Breakdown_.2F_Backlog.2C_and_Priorities
Please put your name next to the task that you would like to work on,
so we can keep track of who is working on what. Eventually, we'll get
the technical tasks into an issue tracking program like Github, but
for now, we'll use the wiki.
Also, I sent Kyle, Sarah and Jose an invitation to join the
HaitianStories google group at
http://groups.google.com/group/haitian-stories
Please join this list so that we can keep each other informed about the project.
Thanks to everyone for helping out with HaitianStories!
Nate
Kyle Baker
From: Kyle Baker <kyle....@crisiscampchicago.org>
Date: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: CrisisCamp Toronto
To: Nate Aune <na...@jazkarta.com>
Cc: Jose Leal <jose...@wikidomo.com>, dshaddon <dsha...@comcast.net>, haitian-stories <haitian...@googlegroups.com>
Nate et al,
Here's is a mockup for Haitian Stories. I the project finds something useful here. Layered Photoshop file is attached as well (layers are well labeled and compartmentalized into groups/folders).
As discussed I took a stab at the tagline -- "Haitian Stories exists to collect the stories of Haitian victims and survivors worldwide through text, voice, and video. Anyone, anywhere with a story to share is encouraged to do so. Read more about our mission here."
This should sum up the site and give some contextual access/call-to-action via linkage. I made sure to emphasize the worldwide aspect (which Nate identified as a key part of this project).
My thoughts on the map -- I understand the global focus here, but I'm not sure the map dominating the homepage is justified. If it is, I think it needs to be more explicit. In my mockup I omitted the big map and alluded to it in the tagline (and added a main menu item).
As far as color scheme and logotype -- Just keeping things very simple, used the main Haiti flag colors. I didn't have any particularly compelling ideas for a logo... and I'm not sure this site needs one anyway.
Re: typography, the mockup uses Georgia and Trebuchet exclusively which will render reliably on the vast majority of machines.
Sorry I couldn't get more done, took us a while to get on the same page today.
Kyle Baker
CrisisCamp Chicago
Nate Aune
There are a bunch of tasks outlined here:
http://bit.ly/bN8ZVK
Please let me know what you would like to help out on.
thanks,
Nate
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Jose Leal <jose...@wikidomo.com> wrote:
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> I’m not leading the team here in Toronto. Celina (cc’ed) is the team lead.
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> Celine, please let me know how I can help moving forward.
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Nate Aune
Thanks for the task list. I'll share this through my networks to see where we net out over the next few days.
Great, thanks!
Personally I'll be focusing on the non-tech and promotion tasks.
Let me know if any of the tasks need further clarification.
Nate could we get access to the Haitian Stories google analytics? Love to measure the impact of our efforts and report this back to the community -
Sure, I've added your gmail account to the Google Analytics for HaitianStories.org so you can see the stats.
Enjoyed checking out your site http://filmsthatmove.org !
Nate
Thanks!
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celina...@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/celinaagaton
647.299.5444