Project Conversations

As facilitator i'm increasingly being faced with the importance of understanding the underlying architecture of drupal, as i keep finding that the ideas i want to implement don't fit the tools. I'm sure at the same time, that the tool offers features that could be used very creatively (eg game design capitalises on the use of the computer's clock) if i understood the nodal structure better. Its an interesting challenge for Alan and I to communicate without a visual map and a common language.

I'm working on a new project with a researcher from Social Sciences which is aimed at older people and web2.

I have in mind some social networking and a way to express identity using webtools and incorporating images, text, audio and video.

We're at the planning stage now and hope to begin in September. I mention it here as I know it will interest some folks and it builds on the prep I did for Manchester, the experiences there and Davids comments and suggestions afterwards.

Looking forward to the work in Manchester but these are decisions I have to make fairly regularly and sometimes I make them as much on expediency as anything else.

This week I met with a small group "FRIENDS OF REDCAR CEMETERY". Contrary to what you might expect we had a few laughs.

What they want to do is (a) create a virtual tour of the cemetery (b) be able to show this offline and (c) create a database of all the graves. (d) they also have a print newsletter produced in MS publisher which could go online but I think they could simply blog the stories.