Requesting ALL PHOTOS!
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Elliot
Hey chaps and chicketts, I really wanna start getting to work on nailing together a really good site for CAWA, complete with image galleries and sections for videos etc etc, but it’ll take a long time without the proper material.
If anyone has any photos (trust me, they don’t have to be masterpieces) of climbing going on around WA, heck, even just social photos of climbers meeting up or bloody anything, PLEASE send them to me with a brief description. IE: climb, grade, climber, location etc.
It would be VERY much appreciated and it’ll help me get a few drafts together quicker for the new CAWA website idea that has been chucked around lately.
You can send them to [email protected]
AND THIS MEANS YOU!
Mark Weatherill
Is photo and video galleries really what the CAWA website needs? Sure, they look nice, but I would think that is something well covered by flickr and youtube. i.e., tag your photos/videos properly and they can be aggregated on this site.
My impression is that the site provides its most value in how it presents climbs, locations and the relevant discussion. If I’m planning a trip to the Porongorup’s then I want to find out about recent fires. If I’m going to climb Agent de France then I want to know that the crux hold broke off. Linking discussion to content is key.
There are a heap of web development nerds that want to contribute to the new site and many more are interested in the shape it will take. How about managing it transparently online? Something like BaseCamp or a wiki could be used so that anyone can see what is going on. Let everyone see what is planned and who is doing what. It seems a lot of complaints targeted at the committee are because no one sees any action.
Elliot
Why do things need to be made more complicated?
All I’m doing is wacking some drafts together for what I think the site should look like, content etc. Nothing is being changed. I’m just going on my own steam and wanting to put something together. I’ll then post my drafts in the forums in people like what they see then we can roll with it…otherwise, no worries.
I think this website needs a good photo gallery and I do think that posting videos is a good idea…and there’s no reason why it has to be at the expense of the up to date content we have here.
Let’s say some climbers come to WA and stumble across the CAWA homepage (not hard, and it happens all the time) I would rather them be greated with a nice looking website that offers photographs of the climbs, the climbing locations and even some photos of the efforts that the CAWA volunteers have made (ie: building pathways and steps etc).
In my humble opinion the CAWA site layout and appearence is far from appealing. Once again, a site revamp does not need to be at the expense of what it currently offers.
As for image hosting and video hosting at youtube and over sites, that’s a sidepoint. I’m not exactly suggesting that the server that the CAWA site is hosted on is also used to host bandwidth hogging video clips. Not suggesting that at all.
Anyhoo…I’m really keen to have a nice looking site for the Western Australian climbing community that offers a library of route infomation, images of said routes, even videos as well as having a simple calander for events, a spam free forum etc.
It’s really not a hard task…but it is without material.
Toc
Thanks Elliot.
One of the things the committee has been discussing is an online climbing guide for the state. We already have the beginnings of this but it could be extended greatly.
What I envisage, and it needs web savvy people to make it work is an area in the CAWA website where all of the climbs in the state are written up. A lot of it is already in digital form but it would take some work (probably heaps) to make the whole thing coherent. New climbs could be written up by the first ascensionist in their proper place and comments, suggestions photos could be then added below. I would think that specific moderators would monitor the area. The actual guide, not the threads, would edited by the moderators, including photos. Comments could be used to improve route descriptions and also updates, ie if a hold falls off or a tree mentioned in the desctription disappears, etc. CAWA would be in the position of sending sections to the printers if hard copy guides were warranted, but I’d envisage that a lot of people would just print out what they need.
We would eventually then have a whole state guide and it would be owned, I guess by CAWA, which is just climbers and it would be continuously updated and continuously available.
Over to you lot. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Toc.
Mark Weatherill
Hi Toc, that’s something I’d like to contribute towards. Is there anyone else working on this at the moment?
Hynek
YES to photos and videos – I think it will add greatly to how enjoyable and informative the CAWA site is.
Toc
Hi Mark,
At the moment, it’s just a wish. If it’s possible, and I’m not ever planning to be able to build this myself, as I don’t know how to do it, (I’m just assuming there are people who can), it would automatically solve our WA climbers guide book issues pretty much for ever. The last CAWA guide is in digital form and and we have a bunch of mini-guides and first ascents as well already on the website, it’s just the next step, which I’m not assuming will be straight forward. I hope a bunch of interested and capable people could get together, and if it all goes well, the WA climbing community will be able to make the thing work.
I would expect climbers to be able to download and print sections as they wished, and every now and then if the demand exists, for CAWA to have chunks bound and printed and sold through the normal outlets. At that point CAWA would make money out of it. That would be nice, but my hope is that it just works for climbers.
Cheers,
Toc.
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