Web Hive

Purpose of online presence

• What is MakeICT?
• Do I want to join? How?
• What are some upcoming events?
  • I'd like to register for event X
• What are members working on?
• I'd like to join/participate in special interest group X
• Where could I learn more?
• How do we take people from interest to member?
  • Add email and questions to Meetup

Current State

Tools

• WP
• on ITS server. Only Dom and John have accounts. Only John has sudo access.
  • ITS is cooperative. The general outline is that they deal with low level (mysql, etc.) and we deal with high level (WP, etc.)
  • There's some overlap. For example, we've played with Apache configs etc.
• Custom code by Obiedom (Makerspace gears, WA API, what do you want to learn/teach)
• Wild Apricot
• FB, Twitter, G+, Meetup, Google Calendar, Google Groups

Usage

Events

• create FB page
  • RSVP and tix are separated on FB.
  • Figuring out how many people are coming and getting them to buy tix is tricky
• put on Google calendar
• put in WA

Special Interest Groups

• Some are maintaining their own google group lists

Web Page

• front page needs work. See Dallas Makerspace website for comparison
• perhaps a list of events coming up as a widget in WP?

Possibilities

• integrate FB, WA, etc.
• tickle reminders about events
• WA should be transparent to the user, ideally
• members host about themselves, their projects

Organization

• Slack channel?
• Trello?
• Bitbucket or other issue tracker?
• Who posts on our various social media? (not stepping on each other's toes while at the same time not being bureaucratic)

Short Term

• Easier fixes, as suggested by Gina

Random

stuff we don't need to talk about in the Live Hive Jive

WA

integration of WA such that WA is transparent

• already working: proxy makes WA appear as part of the makeict.org domain
• issues:
  • https (an issue for payment)
  • email reminders from WA all point to WA domain
    • We can add a domain to WA and request ITS sets that up for us?
  • File:IframeHackEventsWildApricot.zip