Publicphotography.org - A celebration focusing on photographers' rights

[JAS_Photo]

So is the flickr for anyone to to post public photos to? Can we promote it? There are a lot of photographers in Calgary that do a lot of public photography that we could invite. I am sure that goes for your area or anyone's as well. It would be a rather dull group if there was only the photos for that one occasion in there.

[Iguanasan]

The Facebook group seems to be getting photos from everyone already so, sure, why not? I'm easy. We will try to curate the group though and keep it to public photos to fit the theme.

I'll have to look at the settings to see about making sure these other options are open. I assume I can share management of the Flickr/Facebook groups. Any takers to help with that?

[Marko]

Ok Publicphotography.org is live but it's only a placeholder for the moment.

What we could also use help with is a blog setup... does anyone have experience with that? setting up and customizing blogs is not my forte at all.
I can definitely maintain it once it's up though.

I suggest running this through a blog because it makes it so much more interactive - but I'm open to all ideas on this one.

[Iguanasan]

Blog is an excellent idea, however, I've only ever used Blogger. I'm sure I could figure it out given a bit of time unless someone else already knows. Does your hosting company have an admin page where you select a blog engine or some such or do we need to find a blogging tool to install?

[Marko]

No any blog install would need to be done manually - it's really not that hard...it's been at least 3 years since I've done it though and I've only done it once...and i'm crap at the customization...that I've never really done.

for anyone that's done this before, the install should take about 15min. For those that need to learn as they go (like me...probably 60-90 min)

customization - probably 1-2 hours.

does anyone know anyone with basic wordpress skills that might want to help out just on the setup/customization?

Thx!

Marko

[Marko]

If nobody can offer help on the above task, I'll try to install it (wordpress 3.0) myself on Monday.

If anybody knows people that could help on the technical side of blog customization that would be great.

I assume I can share management of the Flickr/Facebook groups. Any takers to help with that?

I'll help if i can...

again i suggest a meeting online for those willing to help....please state your availability.

At this point I'm just trying to get the thing live, but if nobody else steps up with concrete plans to make this happen...or offer a time when we can all meet to focus the project...then this puppy will fail.

I'd say we need 4 or 5 of us online at the same time next week........or i too am simply out.
I'll make myself available at anytime we agree on...but i want people posting when they can meet online. Name a date and time please.

thx!
Marko

[Iguanasan]

Tuesday or Wednesday evening:

7:00pm Atlantic through to 11:00pm Atlantic. Just let me know in advance.

[JAS_Photo]

I only know enough code basically, to make a hyperlink, so would not be any use on the website. I work splits every day so am not around when most people are as a general rule but I can promote the sites, add links etc. If everyone invited their friends to the facebook photography.org the site would grow in membership. Every time someone posts to it it shows up on the news feed of the members which puts it front and center in people's minds. So if you invite 10 friends and they invite 10 friends and so on and so on.....

[Marko]

I can meet at 7pm Atlantic time tuesday. If it's only a few of us I can do a conference call at my expense.

Publicphotography.org is now a live blog running on wordpress 3.0

Still looking for any helpers on customization...

many thx

Marko

[JAS_Photo]

Looks good so far, Marko.