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

[matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

Hello INW crew --

Uzoma and I have discussed getting the InterNetWorkers Dev Group up  
and running again to perform a redesign for the website.  Granted, we  
have not made much progress, but the idea came up several times and we  
agreed that we need new volunteers in the inet-dev group.

While shopping for new OS X software tonight, I came across a really  
neat looking site that I thought could be used as a fun example of how  
the INW site could be redesigned.

http://www.givegoodfood2yourmac.com/

That site is fun and appealing to me, but I doubt the INW site would  
want/need an exclusively food-oriented theme.  Still I like how you  
can click on stuff and it does stuff.  Yeah, that's cool.  Heh.

It would be great to get suggestions from other members about how the  
site should be done and what features we would want to include.  Our  
options run the gamut from off-the-shelf CMS to custom built site.   
What do you think would be cool?  :)

I think the following would be great features to have:

 - prominent, easy to use gathering announcements (both past and  
future)
 - multi-user content posting/editing (so new folks can post  
gatherings/photos)
 - updated Job Board page (oops, looks like old one has been taken  
offline)
 - pull in archival photos & meetings pages (so they are actually  
accessible)
 - general content revamp
 - perhaps IRC-web client so anyone can chat in #inw via website

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Happy holidays to all!
David M.