for whatever reason i cannot send email from here. therefor you get the easa-website-infos this way. as stories fastly disappear on this blog and we may need to discuss quit a lot of things, it would be nice if this text will be included in the finalreport of the INCM. however, thanks carla for english-improvement!

Easaonline.net

The Website should basically help to fulfil the „aims of easa“, on which were agreed at the INCM in Motovun. These aims are to increase the productivity and strengths of the network and improve the quality of easa in the longterm by finding suitable participants.

Structure

The websiteproject consists of an official and mainly static part; the website itself, and external links to dynamic platforms such as the blog, a calendar, the facebook-, flicker- and youtubegroup.

The official part of the website is meant for sponsors but should also provoke the interest of future participants.

frontpage: basic explanation of easa, links to the easaguide and upcoming events. It’s the first impression for many future sponsors and participants and should therefore contain a very well written introduction with a fantastic picture. (image1)

Archive: a well organised and carefully edited range of information about the past easas. You can browse historically, geographically (map), or by content/keywords (searchbuttons). The subpoint “facts” contains statistical data and things that are not related to a specific year (important discussions on the blog, …)

Each event consists (if available) of a short description of the theme and place, the best photos, a list of participants/organisers and specific downloads (such as final report, umbrella, logo-competition, workshop-posters…)

Contacts: description of what NCs are and do and a NC-list that doesn’t display the email-address (spam-prevention) and which can be updated by NCs on their own. If one clicks on a name in order to contact the NC, a textbox will appear.

Links: links to the different external platforms.

These links are external for several reasons: the offers exist, are free and are used by us anyway. Sponsors shouldn’t necessarily come across them, as they show the more vivid part of easa as well. For the same reason, future participants SHOULD come across them, also accidentally. This is possible due to their implemention in larger systems and networks. They provide a kind of huge, self-organised (or rather unorganized some case), flexible and fun-to-browse-through archive.

Flicker/youtube: the continuing growth of media production during the easas, incms and sesams requires a pre-selection-pool for the future archive. Everyone should be encouraged to publish his Photos and videos so that the archive-group can pick the very best. The collection of videos and fotos might show a “real” image of easa. People that are browsing youtube for architecture-related videos might come across our group, might get interested and if their arch-students, might want to join us.

Facebook: facebook could be used to increase the easa-network. It’s easy to find and contact people you met. Everyone is using it anyway and there is already a easa-group. But we could take a step further and encourage every future-participant to create an account, join the group and make it easy to stay in touch with easa-friends (there’s a threshold to use the blog for new participants). While the group is growing, arch-students that are browsing facebook for architecture related groups will find us, might check the official site, the external links and so forth and if they’re easians in their soul, they’ll try to attend the next easa and we have a larger pool to chose from. There should be around 5000 easians out there. Our ancients might help us further with the archive (there’s still shitloads missing!!!).

European-wide calendar: there’s obviously a lot going on concerning architecture and easa all over Europe. The “google-calendar” would allow us to share this information (even sync it with your personal calendar on the computer). While doing so, we automatically create a nice overview during the years… Access would only be provided for NCs. It’s a experiment, we’ll see if it works…go for it! www.google.com

Blog: the current blog is the most important communication-tool for easa and frequently used. There are problems such as too many topics, the fast disappearance of important issues that should be discussed for a long time.

There are far better solutions that would provide better organisation and therefore better discussion. We’re searching for them and will discuss them with NCs before we make the switch.

Anyway thanks a lot to marko and the others that kept the blog running for such a long time!

Logo:

After a successful competition in Greece, the archive-group chose a late attendant (Ronan_ire) that was rather an open platform than a fixed graphic design, and represents therefore represents easa the best.

The basic idea is a box that can be used or abused in any possible way, according to the event it stands for. The sides may contain the logo of the next easa, sesam and incm or display the main themes, something else or nothing at all. The box can be physically built or used symbolic in another Logo…

Although the common base should be kept, we’ll hopefully see dozens of different Logos during the next years.

Domain

As easa.net is taken already easaonline.net fits the content the best. Although it’s not bought yet and other proposals are still welcome!

Schedule/tasks

The graphic design and structure so far was finished during the INCM07 in Motovun. The programming and administrative work will be done during the next month. It might take quite a while to fill in the archive with the stuff we already have…

There won’t be anymore archive-workshop during the easas. Some tasks, like scanning, can be done as duties by volunteers. The update and revision will be undertaken during the INCM by the archivegroup.

Easa:

(participants) creating stuff, setting it on flicker, youtube NO workshop but duties (volunteer) for scanning

INCM:

(NC’s/Archivegroup) Update, revision, development Select content from flicker, youtube

Throughout the year:

	Googlecalendar (NC’s), blog
	Update NC-list (NCs)
	Keep website running (Archive-group)

A last word:

We chose to reduce the archive drastically as we see no point in putting thousands of photos online that no one will ever browse through. We also skipped a lot of ways to browse through the archive in order to keep a healthy simplicity a.k.a user-friendliness.

This proposal is the first one to be set online. We’d like to encourage everyone to join the discussion and help improve the website in structure, content and appearance. This won’t be a definitive version but rather transform throughout the years

We would thank the past archive-groups for the very helpful pre-work that has been done in Moscow and Greece!

Thanks a million, dear Croatian organisers! We wouldn’t have been able to do this without the wonderful easa-atmosphere that you created in Motovun!

The INCM07-archive-group

Dijana (Macedonia) Christian (Denmark) Tine (Denmark) Luis (Switzerland) hana (Serbia) Iwan (Bulgaria) Ronan (Ireland) Patrick (Austria)

Did I forget anyone? o yes and here is the design-proposal: www.arch.ethz.ch

hi folks i am visiting paris atm with a friend of mine - but some accomodation plan just didnt work out. I know it's short - but anyone in the area to host us for the night? cheers aLx_be

Here we are! Back from Zagreb! now that I had a dinner with pasta and a proper sleep I'm ready to join the rest of us that are already working :)

The location of EASA 2009 will be Val Camonica, a valley in the lower Alpine regions of Lombardy, famous for petroglyphs drawn by members of the Camunni tribe on hundreds of exposed rocks dating from 10.000 BC.

The theme is about Connection and is what we are focusing on in this moment to explain it in a simple and complete way.

A big thank you from the organizers team: me, Eros, Elisa, Vince, Leo, Paolo and Beppe. Many others are involved and will join us.

contact: easaitalia at gmail dot com more info soon! "it's all about Love"

www.easa008.ie has launched

there is still much work to do on the website but there is some useful information available and you can download the presentation we gave in motovun and some other 'packs'

I've also set up a 'forum' which is different to a blog in that you can follow a discussion more easily. also you don't need to register to use it.

www.easa008.ie

if you have any suggestions you can email me personally ronan.kenny[a]easa008.ie or team[a]easa008.ie

Here's the invitation for the sesam in aarhus 23-25 november 2007. [click on the link]

www.flickr.com

I will send out a sesam pack with application and the presentation at INCM to all easa NC's. if you can't get in contact with your NC, please let me know [runebadone-at-gmail-dot-com]. then I'll send you the package.

please note that the application deadline is 7th of november [in 1 week]. we will announce the participation list the following day.

instructions to get to denmark will follow...

hm... where to start from? while ana is back to her diploma+re-typeing last minutes, and iva fighting with bank birocracy, i just weaved to last visitor of post_incm_zagreb excursion: dade & tine tnx for palačinke yesterday :)

until the last person left zagreb, we didn't want to officially announce that incm007 was over and give the closing word, so here it goes now!

we're gonna need few days more, to get back to reality and catch some sleep...

but we must say we are very proud and satisfied with work done and event in general! we wanna thank each one of u present in Motovun, for all the work produced and amazing amount of easa spirit!

participants guide, nc's guide, EASA promo poster, EASA promo presentation, sponsoring advices, are just some of the things newly made on this INCM and in our opinion were, and are, very good, useful and necessary!

archive and the website team also did an amazing job, so keep our fingers crossed that in one month period we're gonna have new easa website. one of the most important things for the network.

one day workshop was quite a success, once again proving that the potential of 80 talented young architects is energy and creativity that can produce interesting ideas in less than a day!

exhibition of 36 european schools on theme adaptation gave valuable section of differences and ideas from all over europe, and after being hosted in zagreb will start it's round through europe (all of u who want is feel free to ask).

quota turned out to be the hardest and probably most important part of discussions, but consensus was reached and we have new excel file for quota. some changes were made, on which we all agreed were fare and important. bulgarian NC's are working on the finalization and description of it.

easa guide was a bit changed, some points consensused to be moved out of it, some small changes also made, and we promise to have it uploaded by begining of next week.

and as some of nc's present in Motovun already said on the blog, upcoming events are: EASA 009, Montecamonica, Italy INCM 008, Nicosia, Cyprus SESAM 007, Aarhus, Denmark 2 SESAM's 008 in Belarus

we're specially happy that, although having lot of new nc's, so many important things have been done, talked about, cnanged or added, that got our easa network to a new level (or brought it back were it belongs).

so, a year after INCM Moscow, where one nights crazy/drunk/easa_spirited/sudden decision, to host INCM007 was made: we can say it's over and it was another excited, amazing and productive experience.

we love you all!

ANA / IVA / IVAN

• our org team & help ISKRA/IVANA/DIVA/GORAN/DAMIR/ MARKO/IZVOR/FRENKI/NIKSA/ MIRO/MARIJA/LUKA/NEVENA/GIOVE

We've just arrived at home. Thanks to the croatian organizers, especially Damir and Josip for their hospitality and kindness! My first INCM was an unforgettable experience! My room is full of chlothes and laundry, but I've found one more suspect sleeping mattress...a stolen one, I'm afraid. (It looks just like mine, but a bit less dirty)

Miro, Yoyo, Matthew or Erhan ??? (DOM mansard, the room with a red door frame) Don't you miss your strait grey mattress?

Kisses from Budapest Kata

sorry for the strange error-messages, the problem is at the back-end and is about to be solved.

btw: dear organizers 007 / incm-hosts 007,

after the discussion at easa 007 in greece it was decided to donate some money from easa007 to the host of our blog. please see this story. what was the outcome after incm, how do we proceed?

all the best, mark0 (at)