[Seattle-editorial] current feature and categorizing stories

[Jason Reep]

The list of who's using what that's hosted by the bandwidth coop is not 
at all up to date.  I don't know if these lists are completely current 
either but there are quite a few examples for both DADA 
(http://www.dadaimc.org/) 20 examples, and mir 
(http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/MiR) 7 examples.  The MIR sites 
tend to be more visually appealing to me.

here's an intersting write up called "Software (,) Politics and 
Indymedia" http://mako.yukidoke.org/writing/mute-indymedia_software.html 
(note: it contains one bit of out of date info.  It states that DADA is 
not free software.  It is now GPL'd, open source software)

IMC-techies, can anyone weigh in here with codebase experiences and 
opinions?  The WIKI section for ops/exps is pretty thin.  We got a few 
responses several weeks ago when after I sent an email to spur some 
debate on a new codebase but I'm still curious about more peoples' 
opinions.  we are exploring and looking for locals techies to be local 
techies but until these people bubble to the surface, we're at least 
trying to narrow down the pro's and cons of the offerings.  Thanks.

-Jason

Gentry Lange wrote:

> Well my second choice then is SFACTIVE, Dada and MIR don't seem to have many
> listed IMCs as examples.
> 
> Gentry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
> [mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of Jason
> Reep
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:20 AM
> To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] current feature and categorizing
> stories
> 
> 
> Philly uses an entirely different codebase than, I think, any other IMC.
>   It's home grown and based on the Slash code (Slashdot.org).  It's not
> something that has/is been/being widely distributed and I've not heard
> anyone even hinting at offereing support for the install, migration,
> cusomization, maintainence, etc...  I would place this code at the
> bottom of our list of options.  The other code bases offer plenty of
> newswire improvements that will make us happy.  It still seems like a
> tossup to me between MIR, Dada, or SFActive.  There's at least some
> support available for all of them.  The first priority to me is finding
> some local techies with enough skillz to maintain one of these new
> codebases.
> 
> -jason
> 
> Gentry Lange wrote:
> 
>>Ok. I have looked at the Philly site a lot, other than the color scheme I
>>like it the best for newswire control. Especially the ability to actively
>>rate stories, and then have a "top rated stories" newswire.
>>
>>Gentry
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sheri Herndon [mailto:sheri at speakeasy.org]
>>Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 1:34 PM
>>To: g at art13.com
>>Cc: sheri at speakeasy.org; seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
>>Subject: RE: [Seattle-editorial] current feature and categorizing
>>stories
>>
>>
>>i never suggested a rule.
>>and i'm certainly not against commentary....?
>>i was suggesting that we make a distinction for our readers.
>>i just think it's good to delineate when we've got commentary or news.
> 
> it's
> 
>>something that we've talked about in the imc since the beginning.  having
>>categories.  with the slashdot model that philly uses, you could do that
> 
> and
> 
>>i think that sf-active has that ability as well.  that's for the newswire.
>>i think for the features center column, having a way of identifying
>>different types of stories might be helpful to our readers.
>>xo
>>
>>
>>>Which feature? And I never thought that there was a rule against
>>>commentary?
>>>
>>>Gentry
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
>>>[mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of
>>>sheri at speakeasy.org
>>>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:19 AM
>>>To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
>>>Subject: [Seattle-editorial] current feature and categorizing stories
>>>
>>>
>>>hi,
>>>
>>>the current feature looks more like commentary than a story.
>>>
>>>maybe we could make some distinctions in our title bar about (1) news
>>>and analysis (2) commentary (3) opinion (4) local (5) global?  for a few
>>>examples.
>>>
>>>thanks.
>>>sheri
>>>
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