Category: Occupy.net

Occupy.net provides free/libre/opensource tools to the occupy movement.

Map.occupy.net Face Lift

Browser shot of map.occupy.net design refresh

One of our powerful – yet under utilized – tools is #OccupyMap (http://wiki NULL.occupy NULL.net/wiki/Occupy NULL.net_Maps). This Ushahidi (http://www NULL.ushahidi NULL.com/) based platform allows anyone in the world to submit time and space based events on a crowd sourced map in a variety of ways, including via Twitter using the #occupymap hash tag. I’ve taken on the task (http://collaborate NULL.occupy NULL.net/issues/172) of giving our product a little face lift.

Starting with the theme “Unicorn (http://community NULL.ushahidi NULL.com/index NULL.php/themes/theme/unicorn)” by Caleb Bell (http://community NULL.ushahidi NULL.com/index NULL.php/user/profile/3) I hacked out the main page to be full screen and set the navigation menus to flow across the top. I also added the occupy.net global nav.

Occupy.net Landing Page

Hi everyone, when I was doing the wiki design I thought of a slight revision to the occupy.net (http://occupy NULL.net) home page. The horizontal list of projects currently just mirrors the top nav, if we turn it into a grid of expanding blocks they’re more concrete, skimmable, and hold the descriptive text nicely. Mockup below. It’s just a small iteration on the existing layout, but if anyone has any comments please fire away.