[Cc-webedit] [mediateam] CC Photo Feedback

[Jon Leighton]

Hiya,

I'll feedback my opinion on the web side of things below - also CC'ing
the web list so others can chip in if they like.

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 00:08 +0100, Lynn wrote:
> Evening All,
> 
> Part of the photography team met up 
> tonight to discuss how things were working. 
> (Amy, Rob, Mike, Amelia & Lynn)
> 
> Apologies to those who couldn't make it at 
> short notice.  I've detailed our discussion 
> below so anyone absent can feed in with 
> suggestions and responses.
> 
> Is there a date for next Media meeting?  
> Be cool if any photographers who are 
> planning on being at the swoop could 
> come to next one.
> 
> Night,
> Lynn
> 
> 
> Photography on the Climate Camp Website
> 
>       * Proposal for a Photos tab at the top of the website (right of)
>         Press tab (web team is this poss?). Important for photos to
>         have a fixed tab which is easy for other media to find when
>         searching for images as well as members of the public.

With respect, I'm very strongly against this. For usability's sake we
cannot really allow the top level navigation to expand - this was a big
problem with the old website and before you know it there are 16 menu
items and nobody can find anything.

I think it has been working well to have photography promoted in the
highlights on the front page. I'd also be quite happy for there to be a
photography page under the press section (which we could rename to
"Media" if people thought that a good idea).

>       * Create a thumbnail image to represent each gallery (Mike happy
>         to do)
>       * Photos that are named with Climate Camp related text are more
>         easily searched on web search engines. If possible pictures to
>         be named in this way (as opposed to numbers) but yet still
>         keep the photography quote ref: in the metadata. (Lynn to
>         research if latter possible)
>       * Can we have a page on the website detailing how individuals
>         can tag their photography and link it to the CC website?
>         (Lynn happy to write something - web team is this possible?).

That could go on this suggested new page under the press section if that
sounds okay?

When I discussed photography with mini mouse before the summer camp, we
thought it would be really good to set up a proper database which people
can upload photos to - which would ideally manage captioning, tagging
etc. This would then give us a much more flexible base from which would
could create nice looking galleries which integrate into the site
design, plus it would allow features such as search etc.

I admit I haven't had any time to look into this further. There's quite
a lot of software out there, though most of it is crap. It would take
more time to get set up properly but I think it would ultimately be
vastly preferable to using flickr or whatever as it keeps people on our
website and we wouldn't be relying on an external service.

If anyone has any thoughts on this specifically it would be great to
hear them! :)

Jon

> 
> 
> Aggravating Photos (tag words)
> 
>       * Create a tag word/phrase specific to an action.  This allows a
>         streamline of online photography which will all pool in to the
>         same area.  Great Climate Swoop suggestions so far GCS, Swoop.
>         (Could this be taken to Leeds Gathering?) Ideas for
>         Copenhagen?
> 
> 
> Great Climate Swoop
>       * Amy, Mike, Rob & Amelia are all going to be taking photos and
>         keen to buddy up with Climate Camp TV on GCS.
>       * In the event of no Web/Phone access at the site >> We need to
>         organise a team of bike couriers  to ferry memory cards to
>         remote media station. We need couriers to be ultra discreet
>         with any parcels in case intercepted. Can couriers carry a
>         press card? And hopefully minimise the chances of any media
>         being confiscated? (What are ClimateCamp TV Doing? And
>         Indymedia & Plane Stupid?)
>       * Can we use some media budget to purchase more memory cards for
>         photographers? Photographers what size/cost would this be? Is
>         this a Leeds Gathering Q?)
>       * All agreed for photographers to continue to act responsibly
>         when taking photos of individuals at actions.  
>       * Hotel location (Emily to confirm)
>       * Lynn to work from remote place and process/upload/email out
>         images.  All photographers planning on being at the swoop need
>         to email Lynn their metadata profiles beforehand so captioning
>         is accurate. (ellemseee at googlemail.com).
> Remote picture desk will be;
>       * 1st edit/sending photos to mainstream media
>       * 2nd edit/uploading images for galleries on the CC website
>       * 3rd putting the same galleries on flickr (only if individual
>         photographers are happy for this - let Lynn know if you are
>         not!)
>       * Constantly - using Twitter to upload images (can we also link
>         this to the CC Facebook account?)
> (BUDDY REQUEST Is there anyone from outreach, media or web team who
> wants to be responsible for Twittering photos and help Lynn process
> images?)
> 
> 
> Flickr Photo Website
>       * We are now signed up as member name (Camp For Climate Action
>         UK)
>       * And we have a web address
>         http://www.flickr.com/photos/campforclimateaction
>       * There is an email address which you can send images to and
>         they immediately upload to the flickr account. Great for
>         people who can take photos on their phones.  (email address
>         available on request from Lynn).
>       * We can direct people to the Climate Camp website photo
>         galleries from our flickr profile (and vice versa).
>       * Flickr is useful as the image tags make it easily search-able
>         when using google (or similar search engines).  Climate Camp
>         would have more web presence if we could encourage any
>         individuals taking photos to join our flickr group.  
>       * It's $25 for a pro account which gives us unlimited storage.
>         (Can we have budget for this?)
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