SSDP Web Team

From SSDPedia

Formed March 20, 2010. Contact morgan@ssdp.org if you are interested in joining this team of volunteers.

Planning/Organizing Documents

SSDP Web Team, please feel free to start new planning documents for things you are interested in, if one has not already been started. Also please add your name to Member Lists of the Working Groups you want to participate in. All pages are a work in progress, please feel free to contribute your thoughts, Team.

SSDP Online Overview - The big picture of everything SSDP has going on online, present and future.

Short-Term Detailed Working Groups

• Planning More Effective Online Intercommunication - As per request of Congress, defining what this mean and finding the most appropriate solutions.
  • This also includes the 2010 New SSDP.org Layout & Design - Determine the layout and organization of the web site, while testing design ideas with layouts, etc.
• SSDP Social Networkin' It - This group will keep an eye on our presence on various social networks. Share tools to maximize efficiency in spreading information to multiple networks simultaneously. Upkeep online materials on tips for SSDP online marketing to share with chapters.
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Long-Term Detailed Working Groups

• SSDPedia Moderators - Determine and enforce Wiki rules and guidelines, or regularly add content.
• New Chapter Website Start-Up Kit - Help create and implement a standard SSDP Chapter website template using the CMS choosen by the CMS Planning group.
• SSDP International All-Terrain-Design Team - SSDP designer collective who volunteer time to design materials for chapters and national orgs.
• SSDP Online Maps Planning - Planning for major advances in our sites' maps spanning chapters, alumni, events, campus policies and beyond?
• SSDP Facebook App Planning - Laying out details for the future of SSDP on Facebook with an App!
• SSDP iPhone/Droid App - Anybody into this?
• SSDP Server Squad - Volunteers who help improve our dedicated server, or can occasionally be scheduled for a couple weeks or less to try to be on call in case SSDP.org goes down (it hasn't crashed since we moved mail to Gmail).
• SSDP Store - Links to chapter stores
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Team Roster

• Adam Moniz, SSDP UK, UK Board
• Andi Sidwell, SSDP UK
• Andrew Antar, Brown
• Andy Groff, UCSD
• Brian Flowers, PSU
• Caleb Chepesiuk, CSSDP
• Chris Chiles, UM, Board
• Damien Nichols, UMD, MDSA
• Drew Stromberg, SSDP, WVU
• Eric Sterling, SSDP, Board
• Garret Overstreet, Tulsa NORML
• Irina Alexander, UMD, Board
• James Meickle, UConn
• Jeremy Hartmann Orbach, Northern Illinois U
• Julia Peterson, AU
• Justin Holmes, SUNY New Paltz
• Levent Akbulut, SSDP UK
• Matt Palevsky, SSDP, Brown
• Micah Daigle, SSDP, URI
• Mohammed Ahmed-Shaibu, Nigeria SSDP
• Morgan Lesko, SSDP, UMD
• Ryan Cassidy, Northeastern
• Ryan Provencher, Brown
• Sam Rosenfeld, Brown
• Shane Trejo, MSU
• Stephen Oguntoyinbo, Nigeria SSDP
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What is the SSDP Web Team?

Initial Mass Invitation on SSDPTalk, Mar 22, 2010

Hello SSDP Rockstars,

It was wonderful seeing you all at the conference, keep up all the great work you're doing! Please feel free to pass this on to your chapter lists ;)

Given the surge of interest in bringing SSDP's web presence to the next level, we are starting a volunteer International SSDP Web Team including national and local SSDP web-savvy leaders. We will be starting with just a listserve and some public notes on SSDPedia, but generally this will help share and organize the work-load of attaining our online goals and bringing us further into the new world.

I have already been planning to make some core changes to the back-end of the [US?] SSDP web site in the next couple months, and i believe we are open to (and due for) a full re-design. So we are inviting SSDP programmers, designers, and web power users who are willing to volunteer a bit of their minds and time towards moving our big picture forward online.

This group can grow many ways, including into a more formal body, so if you're interested please share your thoughts with us. But this is generally all we expect to ask members of this group:

Required - Participate in group discussions to the best of your ability, whenever you feel compelled to

Optional ways to help International SSDP...

• Volunteer to build/upgrade a web component
• Volunteer to run our presence on a new social network, or run a new niche on networks we already rock hard (eg FB, Twit)
• Volunteer to help determine a new site layout and organizing the masses of content
• Volunteer by submitting layout designs for the new site
• Volunteer to start a SSDP Graphic Design Sub-Team, which could process custom design requests for chapters in need, while continuing to evolve SSDP's brand
• Volunteer to help improve server configurations (we use WHM/cPanel, but email through Gmail)
• Volunteer to build an official SSDP Facebook Application!

If you MIGHT be interested in helping with or chiming in on any on of these steps, and definitely if you have contacted me before, please email me, morgan@ssdp.org, with your name, email, chapter/affiliation, and any web sites you're working on (just out of curiousity), and i will add you to our list before we start less administrative discussions.

I look forward to making this a more collaborative effort. Thanks so much! morgan

Morgan Lesko Volunteer Webmaster Students for Sensible Drug Policy morgan@ssdp.org 301-646-5894