[pf] teleworking from 20,000 kilometres away.

by David MacClement

21 December 2000 21:16 UTC

· Here's something about how at least some people in the Greens from New
Zealand work and play, this Christmas season.

· Alistair Connor has been teleworking to build The Greens NZ website, for
many weeks now. He and his French wife had been living in New Zealand for
quite a few years, then 6-10 months ago they and their children went to
live in France. 

· In addition to GreenViews and GreenNews, the Greens-NZ have many other
lists (I'd think the Greens are the most eMail-aware of all the political
groups), two of which are on Information-Technology and Web-Design. There
is a lot of discussion on the IT list (which I'm on, since for a while
between May and end-August I was converting the Greens e-mail press
releases into webpages), between Alistair and several others, at least one
of whom was almost as able as him in creating such a dynamic-webpage site.
>From what I've seen, it's worked out very well, so far at least.

· Most of you'll have no interest in what he's saying; if so, just skip to
Alistair's P.S., about their trip from Lyon to the antipodes of Auckland,
in Spain, no far from the original Sierra Nevada (at least, that's my guess
about where they might be going).

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Delivered-To: davd@d.pop.ihug.co.nz
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:44:29 +1300
From: Alistair Connor <.-.-.@wanadoo.fr>
To: David MacClement <davd@ihug.co.nz>
Reply-To: Lists <WDIT@greenLists.org.nz>
Subject: [WDIT]Organisation and naming

[From Christiaan's post...]
> *Member only areas
> Should we have a special members only 'area', or do we just attach
> password access to things like the GreenLink, discussion lists and
> certain content on local websites?

Here's how I see this : there would be a "Members logon" icon on the home
page somewhere; once logged on, any page with dynamic content could provide
additional, members-only information, which wouldn't be displayed for
non-logged-on people. - e.g. the home page might have a "Members" section
which would contain news headlines, links to resources etc for members.

Certain pages would be "members only" - links to these would not be
displayed for non members, also the page script itself would verify that
the user is logged on.

A cookie system would ensure that a member wouldn't have to log on again
every time they came back to the site.

That's just the technical considerations... it means we have these
possibilities to play with, when considering the design and layout.

> *Village Green
> How do we incorporate this? Does it need a separate section/icon of it's
> own? Is it simply listed in the 'Office' section? Will Village Green
> include members-only lists (like GV, etc) or will they be in a separate
> area?

As Stuey says, individual threads (or fora?!) would be linked from the
appropriate section. But I also see a link from the home page to the
Village Green itself, the section home page which provides links to all the
threads.

I see the Village Green home page listing all threads to which the user is
entitled : i.e.
    * the non-logged-on user sees only the public threads, in read-only
mode (plus any "moderated" threads, which don't require loggin on to post
to - e.g. the Green Day message page)
    * the logged-on Village Green user (non-member) sees these threads, and
can post to them;
    * the logged-on Green Party member sees these, plus any additional
members-only threads, plus any invitation-only threads (GX, IT, etc) that
they are subscribed to.


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P.S. I won't be doing any more green work until the next millenium - we're
off to Spain for Christmas with some friends from Grey Lynn [Auckland inner
suburb] - season's greetings, i.e. serene midsummer madness to you lucky
antipodeans. Deck the halls with boughs of pohutukawa?

Cheers
Alistair

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sent on to Pos Futures by David. (40,000 km is circumference of Earth.)