Roll Call for July

Roll Call for July

Add comment July 12th, 2006

All members and guests should report in to our Roll Call for this month. Please post by July 20 to let us know you will be available for consultation on party activities for the current quarter (through September).

Content Needs Volunteers

Add comment July 12th, 2006

The technical upgrade may be wrapping up this migration phase, but our content needs are ongoing. In some ways, this move complicates things since we now need to make sense of of our new communication channels.

One of the first orders of business is to set up an online meeting time for organization members interested in helping shape 3rd Party in the near future. In the meantime, here is a top-o’-my-head list of needs for content on our new site:

• Bloggers — following and commenting on news of interest, and also on the platform development process
• Researchers — pose and help answer key political questions through primary and secondary research, posting results on PoliticWiki
• Position Statements — building on our growing political research, author position statements grounded in real-world need and experiences
• Link Managers — check our old list of political organizations and resources and help convert them into their new home (in this blog, as a page in the site)
• Essayists — our existing essays need to be migrated from our wiki spaces to the more permanent and protected blog pages, but we also are looking for writers to create 800-1000 word essays to stimulate conversation
• Template Designers — although we feel this current design is a major step up over the old circa-1998 web template we have been using, we are hoping to form a committee to help design another upgrade for this fall (major or minor)
• Topic Leaders — our forum, wiki, chat and blog needs some short-term focus to help stimulate the community into action. We are looking for some volunteers to suggest and spearhead discussions for a week at a time.

If interested, please contact Jeff or myself, or make use of the forums available here to make your presences known. Thanks.

Some bugginess

15 comments July 12th, 2006

As we wait for the 3rdparty.org domain to fully arrive at our new location, some bugs have already been discovered and are being addressed.

• The forums were misordered from the import of UBB data on July 3. (corrected)
• There is an issue with the Quorum login with some usernames, so the chat area may produce some non-functionality or even PHP errors. (in the process of being corrected)
• The wiki pages are not showing up when clicking on links (corrected, once 3rdparty.org resolves correctly)

Please try to post comments here that identify new problems. We’ll try to address them as quickly as we can.