[NCUC E-team] To Do -list

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:40:13PM -0500, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:

> > * Customizing Wordpress appearance

> I'm happy to help on this.  Sarah and I have had some off list
> conversations about how to implement the mockup she provided.

Great! I added you two as wp administrators, you should've received
confirmation messages with initial passwords - please let me know
if you didn't or if they don't seem to work.

Anybody else who wants WP login now, just let me know,
also whether you want to be admin or editor or author
(admin can do anything, editor can edit content including
other's posts, author can post and edit their own posts, cf.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities).

Brenden and Sarah can of course also add new users now.

> > * Selecting tool (wp plugin, maybe CiviCRM) for member pages
> >   and migrating them over from Ning
> >
> I can evaluate the basic membership plugins I mentioned previously.  It
> would be nice to have folks involved with Inreach/Outreach, Membership
> first evaluate CiviCRM to see if it meets their needs.

It would be nice, yes. For starters it might be worth trying
if wp standard roles would be enough - that is, if we simply make
all members "authors" in wp, wouldn't it already give almost same
capabilities they've got in Ning now?

All of the membership plugins I've looked at are seem to be
designed so they can be applied on top of existing standard roles,
so migrating users over with standard roles first should cause
no extra work, unless there's something users have in Ning that'd be
needed immediately and should be migrated over rather than being added
back later.

> > * Copying other relevant stuff from Ning

> Since I've archived much of this locally, I can help with this.

Even better! We just might get the new site up and be able to
kill off Ning before Beijing. :-)

> > * Setting up etherpad (I already installed it, but haven't yet decided
> >   on authentication scheme - might use some wordpress plugin)
> 
> This works for now. I'm still keen to explore using digress.it plugin for
> wordpress as a collaboration platform for developing comments.

It sounds good, will have to put near the top of the list of tools to
try as soon as we have such a list on the new site. :-)

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Tapani Tarvainen