01-30-2008, 02:01 PM
What do you think a site for an online autistic community should have?
Have personally been thinking of starting up a norwegian site, but not sure how to begin as I've no experience with making sites. Still, I have ideas. Which are maybe abit too creative (/not tried and difficult to put into practice) but anyway.
Here are some of my ideals for the site:
- Should make as much of the autistic spectrum as possible feel welcome
- Learn people who have difficulty accepting their "disability" accept their "autism" instead
- Provide detailed information, not just about autism as a condition but also practical related information, my ideal of this is actually http://autism.about.com
- Make the site a place to be heard if you want to make a stand on the politics of autism
My site should have a forum and a chatroom ofcourse, why not?
"Letter" petitions: People can start a petition of what autistic people think the top things parents, teachers etc. should understand.
When you make a petition you select or write what group this letter is supposed to target (ex. teachers) so when you browse letters you pick e.g. "Letters too teachers", "Letters to parents of people diagnosed with HFA or AS", "Letters to staff" etc. Groups that appear identical ("Aspies" and "aspies.") are merged by moderators, and a letter should be able to target multiple groups at once. I thought about letting the letters be "from" specified groups aswell, but I guess that would be difficult as the undersigned might not be part of those groups.
I want it to be possible to comment the letters without signing it too.
Some kind of library of statments of opinion, debate, personal stories and informative texts related to autism. That might attract people to the site.
I thought about mass-translating English texts into norwegian, maybe by encouraging visitors of the site to translate, but I fear that might cause copyright issues if we don't get permissions from the authors. So it might be that there would just be links to the original texts and a note encouraging people to translate if permission from the author have been directly sent to the owner of the site (me?). I'm not sure how texts in the library should be sorted but maybe by "statments of opinion, debate, personal stories and informative texts" and by what topics it covers, maybe also abit blog-like with keywords.
I also want it to be possible to comment texts.
I guess if I wanted to make a site, I would have to have modest ideas at first and then maybe expand later, as I bet I wouldn't have the patience for it all at once. Hope making a site might become a special interest of mine.
Have personally been thinking of starting up a norwegian site, but not sure how to begin as I've no experience with making sites. Still, I have ideas. Which are maybe abit too creative (/not tried and difficult to put into practice) but anyway.
Here are some of my ideals for the site:
- Should make as much of the autistic spectrum as possible feel welcome
- Learn people who have difficulty accepting their "disability" accept their "autism" instead
- Provide detailed information, not just about autism as a condition but also practical related information, my ideal of this is actually http://autism.about.com
- Make the site a place to be heard if you want to make a stand on the politics of autism
My site should have a forum and a chatroom ofcourse, why not?
"Letter" petitions: People can start a petition of what autistic people think the top things parents, teachers etc. should understand.
When you make a petition you select or write what group this letter is supposed to target (ex. teachers) so when you browse letters you pick e.g. "Letters too teachers", "Letters to parents of people diagnosed with HFA or AS", "Letters to staff" etc. Groups that appear identical ("Aspies" and "aspies.") are merged by moderators, and a letter should be able to target multiple groups at once. I thought about letting the letters be "from" specified groups aswell, but I guess that would be difficult as the undersigned might not be part of those groups.
I want it to be possible to comment the letters without signing it too.
Some kind of library of statments of opinion, debate, personal stories and informative texts related to autism. That might attract people to the site.
I thought about mass-translating English texts into norwegian, maybe by encouraging visitors of the site to translate, but I fear that might cause copyright issues if we don't get permissions from the authors. So it might be that there would just be links to the original texts and a note encouraging people to translate if permission from the author have been directly sent to the owner of the site (me?). I'm not sure how texts in the library should be sorted but maybe by "statments of opinion, debate, personal stories and informative texts" and by what topics it covers, maybe also abit blog-like with keywords.
I also want it to be possible to comment texts.
I guess if I wanted to make a site, I would have to have modest ideas at first and then maybe expand later, as I bet I wouldn't have the patience for it all at once. Hope making a site might become a special interest of mine.