Tees Valley Communities Online

various

Teeside, United Kingdom

Steve Thompson
s.d.thompson@tees.ac.uk
Brian Loader
b.d.loader@tees.ac.uk

 

Description

Tees Valley Communities Online consists of several communities. At this stage I am not sure if I would propsose one of these www.skinningrove.tv or people across several www.tvco.org.uk - to answer your question I am interested in providing a range of content management tools for these communities so that many different people with different skill levels may publish content pertinent to their lives/interests/communities

Expectations

I hope to create a community media empire owned by the citizens to create and use it. to emebed the use of ICT in communities who are severely disadvataged by industrial decline

What proposer can provide for Evergreen

Enthusiasm, an experimentation ground

Reasons to collaborate

To encourage further outward collaboration for our communities that go beyond Geographical boundaries

Addendum

>>The students will be using: (1) Linux operating system; (2) Apache web server; (3) PHP; (4) and MySQL for our development environment. Your software environment should be nearly identical except that it should be possible for students to port to a Windows 2000 environment that is running Apache, PHP, and MySQL. You will also need directory space on a web server for HTML and PHP files.


YES to all the above. The work could sit at www.tvco.org.uk or www.community-apps.org either permanently or just for development and then ported over to TVCO

>>Your plan to look into content management seems very appropriate. I do hope that you are not expecting a complete content management system with all the bells and whistles.

We have moved on a little since I put in the proposal and we have a couple of solutions to content management. I went down the road of weblogs (blogger) for a while but found it usnstable and a little complex for new users.

If you go to www.tvco.org.uk and click on news you will see some examples of online journals with text and pictures using DISCUSS. The reports go up in reverse chronological. This is quite effective and very easy to use. The presentation of text and images is very basic and you are unable to wrap text around images. Also - click on and you will see the same software being used to upload images. The site I use for training people in the use of this is here www.tvco.org.uk/training - anyone wanting to try this out may use this USERNAME "ecreate1" PASSWORD "ecreate1" both without the "inverted comas"

Another system we are using is some CGI software we bought called webumake. You can check it out at www.tvco.org.uk/webmasters UESERNAME guest PASSWORD guest

With the above we have an easy to use but quite simplistic system (Discuss) and in the second instance something with which a person could build a whole site.


>>My sense is that a rudimentary system would be possible. I'm also hoping that you'll be able to work with them to help develop a plan for a system that is not overly or not ambitious enough.

Something with functionality falling between the above two systems would be interesting. We are also hooking into to a very bells and whistles content management system regionally. However I think there is scope for a variety of tools because we are dealing with users with different needs and abilities


>>We also are wondering if the platform requirements that we mention above meet are acceptable.

answered above


>>>Finally we're assuming that you'd be ready to work with the students in the fall and that the two of you are both willing to spend time with the students to help make
this all happen.

I will be happy to put in the time required to make this work and will associate the students with a community groups so that a decent outcome is assured. I can not speak for Brians time but I know he is very interested in this as will other of my colleagues be.

>>Thank you again for your interest! We're looking forward to a fruitful collaboration!

DITTO

Steve Thompson
Project Manager
Tees Valley Communities Online
e-create the future
www.tvco.org.uk
www.e-create.tv
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