Help Redesign Democracy - Join E-Democracy.Org's Design Sprint
From:
Steven Clift
Date:
Jul 29 19:17 UTC
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Help Redesign Democracy - Join E-Democracy.Org's Design Sprint
July 29th, 2008
Over the coming months I hope to engage designers in an effort to vastly
improve the look and feel of E-Democracy.Org starting with our forums -
http://forums.e-democracy.org .
E-Democracy.Org has a small grant that we using to support new features on
GroupServer - http://groupserver.org , the awesome GPL open source platform we
use for our Issues Forums. Some of that budget will be used to implement a new
look and feel that will then spread across our site. However, the more we
engage our supporters and volunteers to articulate a design vision, create some
story boards and actual art/design templates the more we can do with our
limited resources (like make it easy to embed YouTube videos in GroupServer! -
Example - http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/post/eL1LKPDptZl2eIfHUJFzo ).
To this end, we propose a design sprint (in-person in Minneapolis and virtual)
sometime in the next few months to see what kind of talent we can bring to
bear. Indicate you interest, RSVP via our wiki and drop us an e-mail:
<email obscured>
http://pages.e-democracy.org/design_sprint
We won’t consider a meeting until at least five people agree to get involved.
To assist, or perhaps confuse :-) the process, I’ve created two video
screencasts that share some of my hopes and dreams for the new site. One of my
main goals is to ensure that our forums remain competitive in the “minds eye”
with citizen media and blog sites in terms of first impressions without losing
the barebone usability that people really need. The screencasts are available
from:
http://pages.e-democracy.org/design_sprint
As a “virtual” participant, you can feel free to see what you can whip up
anytime or ask us questions now to guide your contribution.
Feel free to leave comments on the blog about the site redesign.
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org
P.S. If you are a developer, check our GroupServer's Development online group
and chip in some code:
http://groupserver.org/groups/development