Testing Makerfox for first time to ask for help with a LOTE4 related task

Ok got it.

Yes the semantics are a bit confusing.

  1. I come to makerfox because either I have something I can offer or am looking for something I need/want, or browsing to see is currently in the system (Im curious and not really looking for anything in particular, like windowshopping) . So on arrival, the available options to do one of the above needs to be clearly presented in those terms for me to understand what to do next. If I have to learn what is meant by different terms it is confusing. (We have the same problem on the Edgeryders site, and its one of the things I was trying to address with the content I put in the home page).

  2. In the case where I am visiting because with an aim, I either try to find out how I can make my offer visible to others, or how to check whether what I am looking for is available. If what I am looking for is not available, I want to know is there someway I can tell the world/other users that I am looking for it?

So moving on to the next steps as related to LOTE4, this is what I am doing today:

I am setting up all the crucial tasks in the LOTE4-The Stewardship group. And then I will ask you to put them into Makerfox manually. If there is a unique Makerfox offer URL for each task/request for help can link each task on Edgeryders.eu to the right page on Makerfox.com.

To make it easier for us to work as a distributed team (so people can start taking on different tasks in parallel) and for you to have a visual overview of what goes into Makerfox, I want to as for your help in setting up a minisite page that serves as a tasks dashboard. I already tried but couldn’t make it work for some reason. It looks like Matthias started working on it here but it’s not finished.

If you can help with this I wanted to ask to use the same CSS as Ben used for the other LOTE4 minisite page. Works?

cc @Ben Vickers