[ubuntu-us] New Website for the US LoCo Teams

[John Crawford]

Joe,

As pleia stated below, we haven't scraped the map, but are looking for a 
different way to display it. We're hoping with ajaxy we can come up with 
an alternative solution. Of course the idea of the new site was to 
consolidate all our resources to a place where everyone could find them 
easily, and not have to have so many bookmarks to shift through. With 
the old site you had the map and an rss feed only, so we feel that this 
new site is a big improvement in that regard. Nothing is written in 
stone, and with drupal it's very easy to make changes.

I'm not very familiar with the analytics code that was on the old site, 
but with drupal we do have some reporting of site usage incorporated 
into the drupal install. If what you are referring to is a better way, I 
think I can safely say that we would look into it.

John

PS: I encourage everyone to attend the next meeting on May the 5th. Our 
last meeting could have used more loco people for input.  Thanks

Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
> Thanks for your input, Joe!
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Joe Terranova <joeterranova at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> You took away my map :( the purpose of the map was so that it took one
>> click to get to your state loco. Now you have to find the link to the
>> state map, then hunt for your state. I set it up that way because the
>> point was for people to link to the site when talking about US LoCo
>> Teams; then whoever the visitor was, they'd find their LoCo team
>> immediately and be one their way to their local site.
>>     
>
> We still have the code for the map around :) We decided to take it off
> the front page in favor of more "About the project" front page. From
> there we decided to link to the wiki for now, so we wouldn't have to
> update multiple places and it's easier for people to update the wiki
> than by contacting us to get their place on the map updated.
>
> That said, it's all up for discussion! And Craig Huffstetler is
> working on a more ajaxy take on Joe's original idea.
>
> Our next meeting is on May 5th at 8PM eastern if we want to talk in
> real time (discussion here is fine too, of course!)
>
>   
>> I like the new site, but what's the plan for promoting it?
>>     
>
> As I see it, primarily just by keeping the project as a whole alive,
> aside from a couple of us kept up with mentoring it kinda died last
> year.
>
> At our last meeting we discussed a bunch of ideas for News on the site
> (I'll publish meeting notes soon, I've been swamped at work this
> week).
>
>   
>> I see you also took my analytics code off. That's fine, but someone's
>> should be on there; you should have some idea who comes to the site,
>> and where they end up.
>>     
>
> Not a bad idea. I run webalizer for other sites on the box so we could
> use that, or go with analytics again.
>
> Cheers.
>
>