[Digital-Mentor] ITT and other bits

[Michael Grimes]

Slef, I wasn't actually aiming my comment at you at all, but generally
expressing a sadness that that is what invariably happens. Be reasonable ;-)
To be fair on CLG I suspect that if they were asked for expenses by a parish
council they would consider it, but I do agree: if they want involvement
then everyone interested should be able to attend without expense. I also
wish the workshop had been scheduled much earlier, and that a 'new post'
button had been available on their forum right from the start, as none of
this has helped convey an appearance of openness. I agree entirely about the
problems with CLG's forum, and I too have expressed concern. I flagged it up
really just to remind this list that discussion is also happening there.

I don't run the digital mentor blog but I'm sure that Dave Briggs will look
at your suggestions. I suspect it's an out-of-the-box Wordpress theme, in
which case fixing the CSS may be as simple changing the theme. I agree about
the phone issue: I think there's a mobile plugin for WordPress that might
help here (Dave?).

I'm also keen that we follow Clare's suggestion of re-wording the intro to
make it more descriptive and welcoming.

As for hashtags, I'm aware that both #digitalmentor and #digitalmentors are
currently being used for this discussion.

Best wishes,

Michael

2008/11/17 MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop>

> "Michael Grimes" <michaeljgrimes at gmail.com> wrote: [...]
> > It does frustrate me that government departments still don't think of
> > holding meetings outside London (though for the meeting on Wednesday CLG
> are
> > paying expenses for voluntary and community sector organisations (
> > http://tinyurl.com/58xbmv, bottom of page)).
>
> Well done CLG.  Sadly, it still leaves the rest of the third sector
> and the lower levels of the public sector out in the cold.  (Anyone
> got a convincing argument to persuade a parish council why they should
> pay London expenses for that?  I haven't.)
>
> > [...] I am somewhat disappointed and baffled that by taking someone
> else's
> > initiative, opening it up and encouraging other voices, we open ourselves
> to
> > the charge of being exclusive; but that's life I guess.
>
> By expressing a concern, I am not making a charge.  Be reasonable.
>
> > The meeting in Birmingham last week was unofficial, thrown together by a
> few
> > people who wanted to discuss it. That can be done anywhere, by anyone,
> and I
> > for one would encourage it to happen. digitalmentor.org is one place
> where
> > those discussions can be aired, but don't forget there's also CLG's own
> > online discussion
> > forum<http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/77/ShowForum.aspx>
>
> CLG's own online discussion doesn't meet CLG's own accessibility
> policy.  CLG people are aware of the problem and I've had a very nice
> positive response, but no fix date is known.
>
> I've tried to get involved on digitalmentor.org but it's a bit awkward
> to follow with a lack of "push" methods, mobile-phone-unfriendly
> display and CSS errors (or is it valid but confuses phones?). My first
> part of fixing that would be to install subscribe-to-comments but
> davebriggs doesn't seem to be hearing me on identi.ca, twitter or xmpp
> lately - anyone else have plugin-installing access?
>
> Second would probably be some sort of "Get Involved" or "Join" link
> and third fixing the CSS.
>
> Is there a common hashtag for this yet?  #digitalmentor seems in use.
>
> Regards,
> --
> MJ Ray (slef)
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