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A web app for receiving local voting information via SMS
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Rebranding to VoteLocal #91

Closed sethetter closed 4 years ago

sethetter commented 4 years ago

With recent updates in #88, the system now has the ability to tag messages for specific locations, and subscribers can choose what locations to receive information for. This allows us to send hyper-local focused content while also expanding the potential geographic relevance of the content.

As part of this effort, we're also rebranding the project as VoteLocal. This will involve a few things, here's the rough high level plan.

  1. Turn off the auto deploys from this repo on Heroku.
  2. Rename the repo, update references in the codebase, etc.
  3. Launch a parallel site at the new domain (couple options available).
  4. Load data from old site to new.
  5. Point Twilio at the new site.
  6. Send out a message letting subscribers know of the changes.

Am I missing anything here?

imacrayon commented 4 years ago

Seems good to me. Were you going to put the new site on the Digital Ocean server?

Maybe we should make each of these items an issue and toss them up on a project board?

sethetter commented 4 years ago

Since VoteICT is becoming Vote Local, we need a new domain! I've snagged a few, and curious what people's thoughts are on..

  1. votelocalks.org
  2. ks.votinglocal.org
  3. ks.votelocal.in

Other variants on 2 and 3 are also on the table. I also own votelocal.dev, so that's neat. Seeing possible futures where there are instances of this system run by other people in other communities and votelocal.in or votinglocal.org can point to the multiple instances? Idk! I think #1 is the most straightforward, and avoid subdomains, but I think there's more interesting potentials with the other options.

@imacrayon @itsmebennyb thoughts on any of this?

renmichaela commented 4 years ago

I'm definitely a fan of the more generic domain, with a locale subdomain

sethetter commented 4 years ago

@jakesuellentrop awesome thanks for chiming in! Sorry I didn't tag you in the post >_<

I'm leaning that direction too. I think mostly leaning towards 2, but the name difference is throwing me off.

I just snagged votelocal.io, so ks.votelocal.io is an option! I think that's probably my strongest preference now.

imacrayon commented 4 years ago

I'm a fan of using the subdomains too. I'm not sure which domain I like best though. I know people generally struggle with the newer .io & in domains. I like the way the .org domain reads left-to-right but voting instead of vote in there could possibly trip people up.

renmichaela commented 4 years ago

@sethetter no worries!

I actually looked up votelocal.io, glad you snagged it. The .org is obviously more familiar to people than .io, but I really like how votelocal reads vs votinglocal.

sethetter commented 4 years ago

What if we go with the name Voting Local instead of Vote Local? Then use votinglocal.org?

sethetter commented 4 years ago

Bleh scratch that, I'm not a fan of Voting Local, Vote Local definitely does sound better.

I'm thinking votelocalks.org might be the best bet -- it's the easiest to vocalize, and KMUW will be advertising it on air.

If, in the future, there are other instances of this run in other areas, we could use the votelocal.in (or io) domain to host a page pointing to all the different instances. I have votelocal.dev too, lol.

Either way, I think this is the way I'm leaning. Any objections?

renmichaela commented 4 years ago

I'm on board