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  • From: "Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Content
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:15:18 -0500


I think B's got the spirit here. Perhaps this outline could be the
jumping-off point for discussion when this
brainstorming/business-planning meeting takes place.

Now: when would be a good evening in the next 2 weeks for all or most
of the volunteers to get together?

My $0.02 -- our sex-symbol needs to be in the members-only section.
Just something special that we all share. :->

Tom

B Holroyd wrote:
>
> Down to brass tacks, are we? Ok... here's something for y'all to tear apart
> and rebuild. A beginning.
>
> .........................................................
> Site Owners:
>
> InterNetWorkers: A geographically defined, loosely knit group of
> technology workers who like to get together once a month and socialize.
>
> Site Audience:
>
> People like ourselves, savvy folks with an overriding interest in
> technology, particularly as it exists in the networked world, but people
> who also are aware of the intersection of technology and politics, and
> culture, and business, and art. People who like to discuss all of it among
> themselves!
> <or>
> For Site Owners only.
>
> Site Purpose:
>
> (gleaned from http://metalab.unc.edu/internetworkers/ -- let us all
> resolve to use _a name_ tags on heads henceforth, even if we don't
> anticipate any use for them)
>
> -- Announce meeting times, places, and locations.
> -- Provide access to resources available to members (internetworkers
> email list, opt-in member list, possible BBS/ listserv).
>
> Site Flavor:
>
> -- Off-beat, high-tech, and mutable
>
> Must Include:
>
> -- main page
> -- privacy statement
> -- help page (web site resource list and suggested use)
> -- member-only page
> -- coherent navigation; site map <or> table of contents <or> index
>
> Site Complexity:
>
> -- Shall we Keep It Simple or shall we throw gee-gaws in
> helter-skelter???? (I always vote for simple elegance, it loads faster.)
> -- The front door could feature a Flash or other such, created by a
> member and changed randomly....
> -- The main page would set navigation expectations and provide links
> to:
> * list sign-up page
> * membership page
> * pictures
> * spirits guide
> * sex symbol
> * current other content (whatever that may be; perhaps membership
> rants or cool art or hot Java...)
> * privacy statement
> * help page, index.
>
> .........................................................
>
> So.
>
> Reply. Add, subtract, multiply, or divide. Send.
>
> --
> "B"
> .........................................
> Think for yourselves and let others
> enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
> --- Voltaire
> .........................................
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>
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  • Content, B Holroyd, 01/04/2000
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