Attended the CIN meeting yesterday at Abbeyfield Park House. As I’ve already commented on aland’s blog, I found it very useful (and gave me a lot to think about). So some random thoughts.
We talked quite a bit about ‘critical mass’ issues. As I write the contributions to burngreave.net are from a very limited number of contributors (this site is after all new). So that we can give the drupal framework a real run for its money (and so stretch our knowledge and expertise) we really need to broaden things out. We need more contributors, more topics (on a wider range of topics) and a willingness to experiment. I feel we need to be encouraging more people to take up burngreave.net email addresses and for increased participation in burngreave.net generally.
I am very excited by the fact that there are rumblings about setting up a Sheffield node of the IndyMedia project (see Sheffield IndyMedia Training). I think there are could be a great deal of crossover between the two projects. Though IndyMedia doesn’t use (as far as I’m aware) the Drupal framework, I’m sure that there are going to be great amounts of transferable skills, concepts etc.
We also talked about looking at developing different interfaces for burngreave.net. I hope to do some work on this over the next couple of weeks.
Originally posted on burngreave.net.
posted by pault at 13:28, 12 March 2003 | burngreave , community