Hello OpenOrg friends, Yesterday after months and months of pre-launch stress, multiple launch dates passed and rewriting the front-end three times, we launched the MVP of the software platform I’ve been working on for Greenpeace International. This is the first 100% open project Greenpeace has done <http://medium.com/planet4>, and I’ve been working on it (as the only person with a background in FOSS) for over a year.
You can see our MVP at https://www.greenpeace.org/international/ (careful, greenpeace.org for US users redirects to the US site). Below the comms the senior MGMT “wrote” (we wrote them) to all 4000 GP staff. This is beta, built buy a scrappy team of 9 people. Every thing is customizable for Greenpeace web editors, who, unlike us, are not very techie at all. Please use the feedback button on the site, if you want to provide feedback. I’m super elated, and will now have more time to spend thinking about and reflecting on how open org principles make stuff happen ;) —laura We said when we commenced <https://medium.com/planet4/greenpeaces-engagement-content-vision-fbd6bb66018a> the project that the goal of Planet 4 is not to be only a vehicle for putting content on the internet, but for engaging people by offering them ways to take action, to win campaigns with us. Throughout the development of the site the P4 project team has held on to this objective. It is a truly people powered platform! The site itself reflects a generational leap forward in design and technology. It is ‘responsive,’ so adapts to look and function equally well on a mobile phone, tablet, laptop and desktop (does anyone still have one of those?). The flow of the content on the site is brief and tight. We’re providing people with actionable information about our live priority campaigns. The emphasis is on ways to get involved today. Gone are the thousands upon thousands of pages of ‘content’ Greenpeace.org <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/> had accumulated over the last twenty years. (Well, it's not gone, it's archived.) The Planet 4 site concept and design were heavily driven by data about how people use our websites. It's based upon listening to our supporters and how they access the site, what they are looking for and what they do. We’ll continue to adapt and evolve the site based on web analytics now that we’re live. As you can see it’s a beta site, there will be bugs and we are involving our supporters in the process of debugging it. Not just in terms of code, but we are actively seeking design and language feedback. We will constantly evolve the site on the basis of that feedback. Please add your voices and provide feedback via the feedback button <https://medium.com/planet4/iterating-the-p4-prototype-with-on-site-feedback-caae0cf22a23> that’s embedded on the right-hand side of the site. Planet 4 is built on Wordpress, an open source technology. The Planet 4 project has also worked through an open design process - with public Skype channels, project files, meetings, and a standing invitation for the public to join in our work. The project has involved over 100 supporters and volunteers to get to this point in the process and have publicly documented the project on Medium <https://medium.com/planet4>. The Planet 4 team has worked hard to get us to today. We’d like to especially recognize their hard work and commitment to transparency, openness and innovation throughout this process, as it is a model for how we’re trying to live the Seven Shifts in our work to change the world. Again, please be sure to provide feedback, flag bugs, and let us know what you think via the feedback button on the site <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/>, as this is how the team will receive and incorporate all feedback from Greenpeace and the public. Laura Hilliger laurahilliger.com <http://laurahilliger.com/> co-founder of weareopen.coop <http://weareopen.coop/> @epilepticrabbit <http://twitter.com/epilepticrabbit>
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