Drumbeat/website/events/specifications

0.8 Developer Site

Requirements:

• Simple proposition for Drumbeat events
• Link to longer page articulating event planning status, current and upcoming resources for two early audiences: potential organizers and potential participants. Link to wiki when appropriate.
• Regularly updated blog posts for event planning status
• Curated photos
  • Carlo is working on flickr / event photo stream as per social media plan

Work plan:

• NJ and AG reorganize current site and new proposition page by April 3=0

1.0 Beta site

Requirements:

Top of Page

• Structured to drive activity for 5 audiences

1st Priority

• Come to an event!
• Potential and current event organizers: “Host an event!”
• Project initiators: “How do local Drumbeat events support Drumbeat projects”

2nd priority(consider sidebars and/or FAQs)

• Colleagues hosting/attending non-Drumbeat events that want to host or give a Drumbeat presence/presentation: “Bring Drumbeat to Your Upcoming Event!”
• Others: journalists, bloggers, potential funders: “Why are local Drumbeat events important?”

Lower page

Categories of content

Upcoming events: Potential event participants: “Find an event near you!” (each city has its own landing page?)

Past events

Content types:

• Calendar
• Regularly updated blog
• Curated photos

Work plan:

• MT, NJ, and AG generate wireframes
• NJ produces copy
• Development team implements wireframe

2.0 Beta Site Beta and beyond

After Beta 1.0 and Drumbeat events have been running:

• Evaluate for effectiveness, ease of use for drumbeat.org/events
• Develop plan for better incorporation of /events with /projects and /people
• maps of events, future & present

Comments & Questions

Matt: Looks great! :) A few other requirements to consider adding to the mix?

• Project-level events
  • How do we more closely integrate projects and events?
  • e.g., The Privacy Icons project wants to host an event later this Spring. How do we help with that? Can project leads create an "event" content type and have it appear on the "events" page? Or maybe that's over-engineered, and a more manual process is ok...

• Affiliate events
  • How do we work with / support / publicize other affiliate groups events?
    • e.g., "Privacy Camp Toronto"
    • When self-organized events on issues we care about happen, would be good to help draw attention to them.