Re: meeting

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Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com

Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

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tel 347.329.4511

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

it would be really great to have more evergreen content on the site. to that end, here are some suggestions for functional additions that I can do with minimal effort.

* an easy way to do that is with a blog. Barrett, would you mind taking care of a ProjectPM related blog? We can import from RSS feeds in an automated way to make that easy...

* What about image galleries? Tim, you mentioned that you have some promotional photos, and/or are looking for some... that would be great to put on the site.

* Video galleries. Barret, you've got some great youtubery on projectpm, and we should link that from this site.

Any/all of these would give me/nicole a lot more flexibility in making the site look badass, particularly on the front page. For example, everyone has a frontpage sideshow right now, or at least very prominent frontpage imagery, as a way to visually emphasize their work. I can't make a slideshow based on no content, but if we had some blog posts, videos, or images, it would be a lot easier. Obviously the slideshow would be easy to enter content and manage, but you have to have something to highlight first!

Are these features that people would be interested in? Are there others? I know I have to get back on the actual web application, but if we're pushing the site it would be nice for it to look more professional. I'd love to implement something like http://demo.drupalizing.com/bluemasters/ or http://demo.drupalizing.com/journalcrunch/ , but without content it's all pretty drab.

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Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com

Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

web www.trellon.com | email cvertesi@trellon.com
tel 347.329.4511
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

Also noteworthy, though not at the meeting: I finally set up DNS for projectpm.org . In about an hour you should be able to visit our website at projectpm.org . It's the same site (and still accessible) at projectpm.singingsites.com .

I'm following along the design conversation, and I'm concerned about the call for separate visual elements for each project. Do you want each project to have it's own web portal with an individual look and feel? On a technical level that's no problem, but with each site comes a commitment to a certain amount of content... and building a unique design for a site is not a small task. We would be committing ourselves to a lot of effort on our web presence going forward. It's OK if that's the case - I will have a few questions to help me set up those individual portals - but we should go into it with eyes open.

Personally, I had envisioned that each project would have a landing page with general information about that project, and sub-pages as necessary to describe it in more depth. All projects would have the same look and feel.

Speaking of which, I don't think I ever mentioned that it's easy to change out the look and feel for the site, we may not need anything custom at all. There are lots of great community-built Drupal themes. A good starting place to look for them is at http://drupal.org/project/themes (make sure to filter for compatibility with Drupal 6!), or you can see a bunch of them in action at http://themegarden.org/drupal6 . I'd be happy to install/setup any themes you guys are interested in.

Thanks

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Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com

Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

web www.trellon.com | email cvertesi@trellon.com
tel 347.329.4511
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Tim Ellis <dynamic@nocturnalcommissions.com> wrote:

Scott and Emma and I met briefly to discuss things; additionally, Scott and I talked on Monday for a bit with Sundeep. Scott has created a document which we should peruse - it can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rj3uNqiLUaWVSW8wMZIBwGEbCLAT7hC_DcLd3-B7VeI/edit?hl=en&pli=1#

I am going to go through my promotional photos for things we can use for the site. My promotional photos are, however, almost exclusively lasers and drunk people (it's very effective marketing when your target demographic is people who drink and like glowing things), so if anyone else has some good photos or images to contribute that would be great.

We have a mission statement in the document for Project PM as a whole - what might be nice is individual mission statements for each sub-project, and a clearly stated objective for the website. Basically, fill in those target topics at the top of Scott's document.

I'll potentially be somewhat available this weekend, and I have Monday off thanks to the good Doctor's birthday, so I'll drop in to the IRC room from time to time to see who is around and we can work to build off of what Scott has already put together.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry I wasn't able to make it last night. Did you guys meet? Perhaps we can get together and talk tonight or this weekend.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
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Tim Ellis
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