Project Muncie Scene is looking for eager volunteers to assist in the planning, development, promotion, and maintenance of TheMuncieScene.com. If you'd like to help this scene information directory, communications hub, promotions tool, and local media repository get off of the ground, post in the message board [1] or send me a message via the site contact form [2].
What can I do?
Planning: The vision of what a Muncie art/music community website should be needs to be developed with as many voices as possible. We need to all get together and discuss what the community needs, and what online tools can be developed to help meet those needs. Project Muncie Scene got started with a big community meeting at the MT Cup back in 2003, so let's plan out some more roundtable discussions and chat on the message board [3] in the mean time.
Development: I'm volunteering to take the lead in developing the software behind whatever awesome web applications we dream up, but the project will still benefit from the involvement of more web developers! Furthermore, designers are desperately needed to help develop the project's image.
Promotion: The website will be most useful as a networking and promotional tool if more people are visiting it! Flyers, stickers, link exchanges, and word-of-mouth will get us far.
Maintenance: We need volunteers to help hunt down events to place on the community calendar (in development), post event flyers that they find scattered about the internet, and submit stories about our community to be published to the front page.
What's on its way for this "Muncie Scene" website thinger?
Revisions of old features: The old 'Scenester Database', along with the listings of local bands, artists, and venues are all coming back to help people find their way around our tangled scene and network with likeminded Munsonians.
Community calendar: A new calendar, maintained by the public and integrated into the band/venue database, is on its way. The goal here is to provide the city with a centralized resource for event information. Concerts, community meetings, art exhibitions, and anything else will be fair game.
Media repository: I want all of the downloadable/streamable music and videos relevant to Muncie to be accessible in one place.
Links:
[1] http://forum.themunciescene.com/
[2] http://themunciescene.com/contact
[3] http://forum.themunciescene.com/