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FGA Project Site

initiated January 8 at an FGA General Meeting. [record]

Purpose

The FGA Project Site is the initial point of contact for the public looking to learn more about the Federated General Assembly. It will provide a cursory introduction, inspire, and serve as a gateway to further involvement.

As our official web presence, it will serve as a blogging platform that stimulates the (informed) public's thinking on FGA core values and concerns.

It will link to our channels of communication, project management, and meeting records.

Audience

Initially, the primary audience for the site is:
  1. potential collaborators
  2. the general public
Future iterations will see added functionality make this a valuable tool for internal collaboration. Momentum behind the project will have gatherer to a point where the site's audience will have shifted:
  1. the general public
  2. potential collaborators
  3. FGA team members

Release plan

FGA Project Site 0.5

Wireframes in issue #155 | Design Comps in issue #191

homepage
Initial go-live will see implemented a landing page inspired by http://hypothes.is divided into sections. Prominently featured: an interview-style video that highlights moments of conversational clarity and brilliance explaining FGA

The footer will have a prominent call to action: "participate" that expands to describe all our points of engagement.

contact form
will appear in a modal frame

blog
a multi-user blog, with paging, tagging, and search functionality.

FGA Project Site 1.0

new features TBD

FGA Project Site 1.1

A more well-produced video that incorporates animation to describe the broadcasting models, potentially some wizard-of-oz'ing of interface elements.

new features TBD

Resources

Example Sites

some sites that embody what we're going for

Environemtns

dev instance
staging instance
production instance: TBD