community portal

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:00:36 -0400
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Hi everyone,

I'd like to direct you to a community portal site (see:
http://win.uwaterloo.ca/scripts/lpsiis.dll/win/) for the City of Waterloo
which looks interesting and uncluttered. My understanding is that this was
developed in collaboration with Waterloo University's Computer Science
School (with community net researcher, Paulo Alencar).

It has no traffic indicator, but nevertheless it is worthy of some
attention in terms of its simplicity. A number of community portals I've
looked at are incredibly cluttered. I don't know how they've designed their
search engine process either. This is something that I think Chebucto needs
to begin thinking about, especially in light of the SmartCommunities 2nd
stage proposal.

We hope to have a community-based meeting soon to look at what would be
entailed to design or reconfigure a search engine to suit our community
information needs in the HRM.

Cheers,
Leo

_________________________________
Leo J. Deveau,
Executive Director,
Chebucto Community Net
c/o Room 125, Chase Building,
Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Canada

ljdeveau@chebucto.ns.ca
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People who say it cannot be done
should not interrupt those who
are doing it.  -Unknown
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A community will evolve only when the people
control their means of communication.
-- Frantz Fanon



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