Way to go Campbell. I know we've discussed the satsentinel before or
rather you told me about it and I clapped my hands like a 2 year old
but it's projects like that which make me fall in love with the
internet all over again. I'm so happy to be involved with you guys.
Seriously, this whole endeavor totally fucking rocks. I'm making out
with every single one of you and you can all feel my boobs. Love Emma
x ps totally joking about the making out. Sorta.


On 1/14/11, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

While I'm spamming the list, I thought I'd push my latest effort with
trellon, the Satellite Sentinel project.  http://satsentinel.org .  It's a
site we built over Christmas, in collaboration with George Clooney, Not On
Our Watch, the Harvard Carr Center, UNOSAT, Ushahidi, and Google...
basically, UNOSat offers near real time satellite imagery of the Sudan, and
the Carr Center and Ushahidi analyze the data and add reports on probable
violence, troop movements, etc.  All of this is browsable on the website
through a map-based interface.  The idea is to make it very hard for war to
break out there again, especially right now as the South votes on
independence.  "The World is Watching Because You Are Watching".

To be frank, Google has disappointed me on the mapping.  We're rebuilding
that functionality now.  But in the meantime, we've had lots of great press
coverage over it.  So next time you see a news story about Sudan Sentinel,
you can say to yourself, "that's our guy!"  :)

C


----
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 8:52 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.

C
----
Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com


Many thanks,

C
---

*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

C
----
Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com


Many thanks,

C
---

*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.

--
Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302

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Tim Ellis
Director - Promotions and Marketing
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Emma xx