What am I Kneeling In?

What am I Kneeling In?

We're done with the calls and more or less confirmed which companies do provide security for events. But as always, something stops it from being easy. In this case its the formating or medium on which we will present our catalog.

As mentioned earlier on, Excel is FAIL. It fails at many things, the most vital being user-friendliness and "presentability". Its not neat its not easy to search. It only really works well as database for our reference. Chances are if you gave anyone this, they'd much rather pick another method, be it GeBIZ or looking through the yellow pages. We need something that potential users would find easy and quick to use yet be comprehensive enough that they can actually get useful information out of it.

We basically have a few other viable options,

A Physical catalog

A Website

A Blog

A Wiki

The following Graphic(s) should adequately explain it. Enjoy!

I hate describing my art. I find it so much more interesting when a picture means a different thing for each person. It makes my art that much more meaningful and valuable. But for the lazy ones here goes.

Essentially, The rest just don't quite cut it*. For one reason or another they've failed to meet the criteria we've set. So it seems we're only left with one contender. A Wiki. That's right, a Wiki.

Its the most capable of the options that we have. I honestly think this will work quite well.

IMPORTANT

I probably haven't mention this before but our project is a work in progress. Right now we're building the scaffolding. It tends to be the ugliest part of any construction work but without it the construction cannot begin. At this point you see little to nothing of the final product, the work is hard yet the results are barely visible but what happens here will affect the final product for better or worse. It is our vision that this catalog be continued by other teams and that they build on what we already have to make it into a comprehensive and reliable resource. The number one reason why we've chosen a wiki is because the work can easily be continued on it. The extent to which it can be modified and expanded is only limited by future teams abilities and resources. It is simple to use so anyone with a moderate level of "know-how" can easily work on it and continue to improve it. It is nothing like a website where once the structure is laid out, it becomes difficult and tedious to change or modify.

The incompleteness is not a flaw, it is the foundation on which the rest of the catalog will be built. It is a foundation that can change and evolve along with what is required of it, yet it will remain solidy in place so that great things may be built on it.

Don't judge a building by the scaffolding on which it was built.