[HacktionLab] Exciting news from HacktionLab

adelayde at riseup.net adelayde at riseup.net
Tue Jan 24 16:51:26 UTC 2012


> I didn't think this site was going to be in geek and non-geek: I
> understood it as basically a non-geek front-end to everything else.

To illustrate what I'm on about and not just be confusing on email, I've
taken the liberty of (re-)writing text for the Email and Blogging tabs.

http://pxr5.hacktivista.net/email-accounts-and-mailing-lists

and

http://pxr5.hacktivista.net/blogging-and-websites

I still think there's probably too much text there, but what I'm trying to
illustrate is that the text be end-user-accessible with obvious links for
them to do what they want.  Therefore a non-tech gets a bit of background
as to why they're there, and a more savvy person can go straight to the
links.

Note: I've written some content for those pages as a suggestion of what it
could look like and what level it should be pitched at: it's no way what I
think Aktivix should write about themselves.

>> I kind of like the idea that a new visitor to the front page is
>> presented
>> with a welcome box which says something like "what level of computer
>> skills do you think you have- beginner, not bad, uber-geek" which would
>> set the language used in the site and tabs accordingly.

I do like the concept JD, but my question is "is it really necessary?" 
surely if we pitch it right, we won't need uber-geek.  I mean basically,
if you know you want an email box, then it should be pretty obvious, if
you don't know what a VPN or a Vserver is, then you probably don't need
one, at least not right now.


>>
>> JD
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Charlie Harvey" <charlie at newint.org>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 10:37
>> Subject: [HacktionLab] Exciting news from HacktionLab
>> To: <hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org>
>>
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>> On 24/01/12 00:31, Alan Dawson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:35:08PM +0000, Adelayde Skidmore wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I believe the intention is that the new site proposal at
>>>> http://pxr5.hacktivista.net under the new guise of
>>>> www.techtoolsforactivism.org should link together all of the
>>>> facilities
>>>> provided by those projects that have been directly involved in
>>>> hacktionlab, as well as detail alternatives of those that have not
>>>> (Riseup, Sin Dominio and Floss Manuals for example).
>>>
>>> I was looking over the site, and wondered if the categories should be
>>> organised differently.
>>>
>>> Rather than
>>>
>>>     #1 Email
>>>     #2 Blogging
>>>     #3 Hosting
>>>     #4 Microblogging
>>>     #5 Education
>>>     #6 Outreach
>>>
>>>
>>> # Organising
>>>     - this would contain email, lists, crabgrass, unspeak, mumble
>>> # Publishing
>>>     - network23,indy.im, btm, catalyst
>>> # Learning
>>>     - ttfa book, flossmanuals, hacklabs
>>>
>>> too abstract ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Alan Dawson
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Well as I see it the main advantages are:
>>
>> * Cuts down the number of tabs
>> * Helps non-techs identify the tool they need by what they are trying to
>> achieve rather than having already to know the tool.
>>
>> It will most likely be a bit annoying for techs, and people who already
>> know that they want an email account or a blog. They will think "but I
>> want an email account, not organizing, learning or publishing".
>>
>> If we changed them, I'd use the imperative mood (the bare infinitive
>> form of the verbs). By which I mean organize, publish, learn. Apparently
>> that works better for task-orientated navigation.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - --
>> Charlie Harvey
>> IT Manager
>> New Internationalist
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