Occupy Toronto
29 December 2011
by Michael Holloway

As the Web Development Committee continues to rebuild our ‘hacked-to-death’ website, we’re trying to better understand what Occupy Toronto looks like – so we can build a web site that reflects it well.

One of the ways we’re doing this is to create a ‘schematic’ of OccupyToronto:

An Image of “Building a Schematic of Occupy Toronto”

See it Live: http://bit.ly/SchematicOccupyTO

The Doc was made with Google’s  new, ‘Presentation’ application – it’s a live schematic of Occupy Toronto that’s updating daily as we get new info. All links are in blue and underlined – have a look.

If you have any new info to contribute, please comment in this Google Groups thread: “Building a Schematic of Occupy Toronto” – http://groups.google.com/group/occupy-toronto-web-development/browse_frm/thread/600b0ae71c2f6092?hl=en

A brief synopsis of 5 WebDEV meetings

The Committee met face to face on December 13, 2011 at The Imperial Pub (minutes) – and then online on December 15th (minutes), and December 19 (minutes).  We tried to meet on December 27 online (notes), but we didn’t have a quorum. Tonight – December 29,2011 – we held another meeting in Google Hangout (minutes).

The next meeting is on January 3, 2012 – 9pm in Google+ “Hangout” (see below to register and attend).

What’s Coming Up?

The new site will have pages for all the Committees and sub-committees – with links to them through ‘Tabs’ just under the site’s Header.

Forums, like Facebook, will be up for General Conversation – and also perhaps on individual Committee Pages – where anyone can comment just by signing up with an email.

To make the forums as democratic as possible, a ‘Rotten Tomatoes’, ‘Digg’ or ‘Reddit’ style ‘Vote up’ / ‘Vote down’ system is being investigated.

To make the communication portals useful as well as interesting, you’ll be able to switch your ‘View’ in any of the forums: see ‘Everything‘, or only ‘Official‘ Occupy Toronto posts (Blogs and Event postings from Committees, Sub-committees, and Action Groups).

The holidays have interrupted our progress a little bit – but I think Committee Pages will be up soon – including one for the General Assembly. At tonight’s meeting we decided, as a stop-gap, to add an RSS feed option to the front page that will link to the General Assembly Minutes. Currently they are being posted at a Google Group – this is the feed address the new RSS Button will link to – https://groups.google.com/group/occupytorontogaminutes/feeds ).

Soon we will have the  software installed to create all the Committee Pages. Inside those pages will be spaces for Meeting Minutes – and much more.

Also, you may have noticed that the “Living Schedule” (a live spreadsheet) is now a Live Google Calendar that updates daily. All Occupy Toronto Meetings, Announcements and Events can be found there – many with links to outside web pages. Access it through the “Calendar” link, just under the Header on the front page.

Happy New Year!

Michael Holloway
WebDEV Committee
OccupyToronto Author

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Want to attend the next WebDEV meeting? (10/01/12 Google+ Hangout – 9pm)

Leave a comment at this link: https://groups.google.com/group/occupy-toronto-web-development/browse_frm/thread/bb0a4451178f73ae?hl=en
I will build a email list and when the Google+ “Hangout” is created, I’ll send out a call. (People who wish to attend should set up a Google+ account prior to the meeting – if you have a gmail account, you’re already on Google+ …  while in gmail, just click on the furthest left tab labeled, “Google+“.)