This is great Laura! Don Watkins DGW Enterprises LLC - Business for the Common Good Community Moderator - https://opensource.com/users/don-watkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/donwatkins
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Laura Hilliger <la...@zythepsary.com> wrote: > 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 > co-founder of weareopen.coop > @epilepticrabbit <http://twitter.com/epilepticrabbit> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openorg-list mailing list > Openorg-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list > >
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