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On Tue 24 Jan 2012 06:34:49 GMT, adelayde [adelayde at riseup.net] emailed
subject: "Re: [HacktionLab] Exciting news from HacktionLab" saying ...

> 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 think there are two options, and we didn't really explore them in detail.

Option A - one site
This is described above "link together all of the facilities provided by
those projects that have been directly involved in hacktionlab."

Option B - two sites
This split makes sense in my mind, but I find it hard to explain. Here
goes ...
Site 1: Utilities - things like email, hosting (basically stuff on the
latest version of the site
Site 2: Products - things like Indymedia, Mute

Perhaps the fact I find it hard to explain is an argument against B.

I'm not bothered either way, but a decision should be made so we can get
on with the site.

>>>>
>>>> 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

Not keen on the current main menu - I don't think there's enough room
for expansion of services.

As an aside, I wonder if blogging & hosting should be combined into
'blogs & websites' - some might be thinking of using wordpress for a
site, so might not think to click blogs.

>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # 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".
> 
>> I personally -1 on those generalised abstract terms (organising, learning,
>> etc) and +1 on naming the tool by what it does (so you want an Email
>> address?  Well let's call it Email.)  I thought we were planning to focus
>> on the tools rather than the abstract application of them?

I agree. It wouldn't occur to me to look for an email account under
organise.

My suggestion would be to have a more traditional main menu ...

Home | About | Donate | Contact | Blah

And use a secondary menu (as a block on each page)

# Email & lists
# Blogs & hosting
# Etc.

> 
> 
> 
> 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,
> 
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