LoCo tools, development

[Martin Owens]

Thanks for your quick response, you've put my mind at ease for a few things.

> I think that's a shame. If your idea is about a tool for sharing
> resources between teams, it's important that such tools get thought
> through by the community first, so that when we move, we do so as a
> community and not just as individual units. That's why I suggested
> that you explain further what sort of things you had in mind building,
> and what sort of collaboration they would encourage which can't
> currently be done with our existing infrastructure.

OK we're not just talking about sharing resources such as media or
print images. I'm not thinking just in terms of collaboration, we have
that much in our existing tools if not ideally. For instance one tool
I want is an event manager, a website which members can propose events
inside a team, people in the team will at their discretion join up to
fill the roles required and organise the resources required to hold
the event. I'm thinking of everything from meetings to installfests,
postering to school visits. Each one is modelled differently and
requires different resources to manage. I see each event being
fundamentally run by a single motivated person with the aid and
support of the loco team, obviously events which are discussed and
agreed upon are more likely to get all the resources they need but I
see no reason to hold our organisation to a centralised model. Not
only that but I'd like people to be rewarded for taking part in
events, I'd like to see notifications being sent out to make sure
different parts get done and I'd like to see the events automatically
added to calendars and available on the front page for visitors to see
what is going on.

Best Regards, Martin Owens