[nodel-discuss] NODE.London web development sessions

[atty]

Hi all,

I am not really imagining taking much part in re-development of Node.l 
site but I did happen to have a conversation with Rachel Baker at a 
Furtherfield do where she asked me about the subject and whether I would 
be involved

I replied, hmmm, maybe, a bit, to which she responded she sincerely 
hoped so and it would be a bit crazy if I wasn't

so wondering why she thought this important, I asked her did she expect 
all present site data to appear in new site to which she replied most 
definitely. Apparently old/present site is used as a kind of reference 
resource by the British Council I assume as a sort of compendium of who 
is active in new media in London (and further a field) and I can see 
this would therefore be of particular concern to Rachel.

so as I got a report that migrating the data was a bit undecided from 
the first drafting meeting, I thought it worth mentioning it does seem 
Rachel is keen that it happens. (it is possible though that not all 
areas of data on the old site have equal value in her eyes?)

which would a mean a little bit of my time (a couple of hours only maybe 
- this the small involvement that I imagined happening) showing Lisa 
Haskel around the old data structure, quite a substantial bit of her 
time (but eminently doable she thinks) writing scripts etc to do the 
migration and so on.

if images attached to data objects were to be retained there might be 
some implications for design of new site as scaling down might be fine 
but scaling up not so fine

yours
atty