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Server Changes and Text Messaging
Since it's becoming apparent that putting this particular site behind both...
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Upcoming Stuff
A number of things going on, both technical and community-based. This morning I moved the search...
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Chat - update -- disabled for the moment
There is now a discreet little chat widget that appears only on the home page (look down at the...
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Upcoming Improvements
Some new things that are in development at the moment:
1. Chat rooms
2. Imports...
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Moving Right Along
Things are now starting to shape up. I've fixed a number off odd little development issues I had caused on the site and I think things are acting more as expected - in particular I reset the broken text formats that were causing some issues with links, etc. being presented improperly. We're now just about ready to start taking on some actual users, and will be starting to do so in some of the test spaces. I'll be able to talk a little more about that in a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, take a look around and see what you think.
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Lots going on
I'm currently in the process of lining up a few provisional users for the site, and working on...
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Performance -- a struggle
The Open Atrium application on which Wiscommunity is based is a big complex distribution of...
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Latest Wiscommunity Plan
I've made some revisions to the latest Wiscommunity plan. I'm looking for feedback on this, which could include suggestions, ideas for functionality, ideas for use cases, etc. Comment Away!
Wiscommunity
Phase 2 – a rethinking
Draft 3 – 7/4/2016
Wiscommunity has been a work in progress for the past two years. It has undergone several different stages of thinking, but has finally settled on an initial plan and mission.
I have been struck for the last several years by how much information in communities around the state is distributed by mailing lists – these are either ad-hoc lists of people that someone maintains on their desktop computer, or a slightly more technologically advanced version in a mailing list server like Mailman. I have also occasionally seen groups attempting to leverage project management systems as a means of organizing communication, with limited success. All of these have one thing in common – they depend on email as the main means of communication. Email is still more or less the least common denominator of communication on the internet, and is well-understood by people who use the internet at all. It also has the great advantage of being a push medium – it comes to you, you don't have to seek it out.
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Today's Improvements - Printer-friendly pages and tags
Content pages on the site now have printer-friendly versions -- you can either build a printer-...