Heather, This is fantastic!
I'm happy to help with the newsletter and email signup task, although I'd need someone to help integrate it into the site. I'm pretty familiar/comfortable w/ online newsletters and best practices. I'm going to add these items to the Birthday Sprint site :) Cheers, Kathleen On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Heather Leson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, I added some additional website items. > > I can be online from 9am PT to 11am PT on Saturday, August 10th to help on > the Sprint day. And, of course, via email until then to prepare. > > 1. Content Sprint: > The website content is somewhat dated. We are a global and multilingual > community. By editing the site for digital skimming, we can also be better > positioned for fundraising and future plans. > > Some editing and content items to github. > https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm/issues/17 > > (Suggestions. Happy to have discussions) > > Coordinate with Heather (need another volunteer lead on this please) > Skills: writing, graphic design > > 2. Newsletter and Email sign up > https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm/issues/10 > > We have talked about having a monthly or quarterly newsletter. This is not > firm yet, but a signup process (architected) will help us with the > communications strategy to get more people learning about HOT (especially > those who are not on the mailing list and just want the headline news) > > Coordinator - ? > Skills - writing, wordpress plugins, email marketing knowledge > > questions: > a. where should the newsletter sign up be on the site? > b. which email tool should we use? > > > 3. Add a donate button the website. At our last Board meeting, we got > final confirmation that we can finally legally do this. (All campaigns will > be later this year. We just want to have the button). > https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm/issues/15 > > Coordinate with Kate and Mikel on this one. > skills: technical > > Heather > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]>wrote: > >> HOTties >> >> To celebrate OSM's 9th birthday, we've been organizing a Code Sprint ... >> the Birthday Sprint! >> http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/ >> >> So far there are three HOT related tasks. If you are excited to >> contribute, choose to join one of the projects. >> http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/about/ >> >> Or start a new one. You can notify me to list it with the details, or >> fork and pull request on the gitpages repo. >> >> We're getting together in a few locations so far: DC, SF, SLC. Join us, >> or just link up remote. Will be hanging in #hot on the day. >> >> -Mikel >> >> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > > -- > Heather Leson > Director of Community Engagement > *Ushahidi* > [email protected] > www.ushahidi.com and https://wiki.ushahidi.com > @heatherleson / skype: heatherleson > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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