Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Michael Thomas <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>]

Hey all,

Our Internetworkers web site is moving forward!

We met the other night and Joe Komenda, our comp. hero, produced the
following notes.

I'll add my two cents to Joe's summary: 

* We're trying to move towards an open source model we're present and
future Internetworkers can easily add content
* part of our model is expecting and facilitating site redesigns
whenever somebody wants to do it
* We're going to have a rocking db on the back end (thanks Dennis!)
* We're going to have "fun room" and will soon be browbeating fellow
Internetworkers to provide content
* I have a super-secret project for the fun room. The heads of a lot of
Internetworkers that were at the last meeting will be featured.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [inet-dev] Web Meeting
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:54:01 -0500
From: "Joe Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>
Reply-To: "InterNetWorkers Developers" <inet-dev AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
To: "InterNetWorkers Developers" <inet-dev AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>

Fun, fun, fun!

Good Meeting last night - hope you all made it home OK. Many thanks for
the
Beer, pizza and carrot cake. Esp. the beer, as we (the wif and I) are
now
snowbound, and do not expect to be out of the house for a few days.
Thank
you, thank you, thank you!

My notes on the meeting are that the following folks attended:

    Todd Neal (Our host)
    Thomas Beckett
    Michael Thomas
    Dave Matusiak
    Dennis Tengu
    Steve Steele
    and myself, of course - Joe Komenda

    We discussed many aspects of the site, including Objectives, db
setup,
Content and Goals. Decisions were generally limited to areas where
things
could be added or modified at a later date.

    The main design idea right now seems to be (and feel free to correct
me)
that we'll have a welcome page that is essentailly static HTML, based on
comp2:
    http://www.komejo.com/iNetWorkers/comp2.html
and use some kind of flexible template on the interior pages, using
ssi's,
php (http://www.php.net/), cold fusion, or summat like that.

    To get things rolling, we picked some content areas and I'll be
putting
a comp together. Other labors we divided up as well. The main areas on
the
welcome page will be:

    -Meeting Information (next meeting, last meeting)
    -Sign Up
    -About InterNetWorkers
    -Fun Room
    -Forum (just blocking off space for this)
    -Search (member info, skills, scripts, keyword)
    - What's New/What's Hot
    -the Anti-Mission Statement (envisioned as a random
mission-statement
generator)

    There were also some other very interesting side discussions
regarding
regular site redesign (we'll encourage it, and try to build the site to
facilitate),  user updates (also encouraged, though perhaps needing some
kind of publishing approval - mebbie a development site?), and a member
database, containing extended public and private info (all optional, of
course).

    It was also mentioned that site content might be driven by member
votes,
popularity, or some other kind of ranking system. Similarly, new site
design
could be subjected to member review/critique before being fully
developed.

    Again, excellent meeting overall. We agreed to handle further
development on [inet-dev] mail until it seems another meeting is
warrented.

Joe K


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