[IMC-Tech] Re: [Seattle-editorial] current feature and categorizing stories

[Micah Anderson]

Have a look at the wiki page:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/WebHome

There are some things there, some of them are probably out of date
also. In particular, there is something that you request, a section on
experiences and opinions:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/OpinonsExperiences

It would be good if people who have moved to new code-bases or new
users of code-bases could put their experiences and opinions up there
to have some fresh content (the code changes over time!)

micah

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, Jason Reep wrote:

> 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 (note: it contains one bit of out of date info.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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