[GREN-Exec] GREN website - from Scott Wicken

[Kevin Thomason]

Hi Susan,

This is excellent.  Scott seems to be very interested, eager and responsive.  The websites he has created are basic but seem to be well done and would be good enough for GREN and our needs.

The question that I would have for him is how much but in order to answer that he needs to know what it is that we want.  I have attached below an outline of what I believe that we need that could provide a bit of a basis for a quote and I would be willing to do a call with him and others from GREN to go over any questions.

Does this makes sense for next steps.  We can also see if there are other interested developers who can provide a competing quote.

Cheers,
Kevin.

GREN Basic Website Outline:

Home page
	- photos/logo
	- brief overview of organization

About GREN
	- couple of paragraphs about who we are and what we do

Goals
	- current activities, projects and issues

Partners
	- other organizations we work with, associations we belong to, etc.

Take Action
	- current issues requiring activities, assistance, letter writing, etc.

Membership
	- how to join us and membership fees

Archive
	- past accomplishments, presentations and activities
	
Contact Us
	- General contact information
	- Press/Media information

Other things that could be important - managing our e-mail listserv, setting up ways to easily contact elected officials?

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Kevin Thomason

1115 Cedar Grove Road
Waterloo, Ontario Canada  N2J 3Z4

Phone: (519) 888-0519
Mobile Phone/WhatsApp: (519) 240-1648
Twitter: @kthomason
E-mail: kevinthomason at mac.com

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> On Mar 11, 2021, at 11:40 AM, Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry - got Scott's voice message, but just found this in my spam folder. 
> 
> Susan K 
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> Subject:	[SpamGuard:####] GREN website
> Date: 	Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:24:30 -0500
> From: 	Scott Wicken <frankenpoet at gmail.com> <mailto:frankenpoet at gmail.com>
> To: 	susankoswan at execulink.com <mailto:susankoswan at execulink.com>
> 
> Hi Susan,
>  
> I got your message on Facebook. Sorry I didn’t respond quicker but I don’t go on FB very often. I do much better with email and text and phone, all numbers which are included here. I just left you a phone message but I’ll repeat what I said.
>  
> Yes, I do web development and making a website for an organization like GREN is right up my alley. I am affordable, fast, and well-trained. I tend to build fully responsive (scalable to all devices), user-customizable, functional sites.
>  
> As well as my constantly evolving personal music site (www.scottwicken.com <http://www.scottwicken.com/>), one of my early sites that arose out of a college project was Old Goat Books (www.oldgoatbooks.com <http://www.oldgoatbooks.com/>). I designed a browser based system to input all of the books into a database, a search engine, a system to put books on hold, a daily upload to ABEbooks.com <http://abebooks.com/>, a blogging section (which is unfortunately underused) and contact forms.
>  
> An early, and constantly evolving, site I still work on is Bhima’s Warung (www.bhimaswarung.com <http://www.bhimaswarung.com/>). Originally, the website featured a menu that was fully editable by a manager, an admin section, login/logout forms, and a photo gallery. Since COVID, I have been very active in setting up multiple takeout menus and shopping carts. Due to the changing landscape of restaurant and retail, their website can hide and show various menus based on what is ‘safe’ at the moment. So, the ability to make a reservation, display a dine-in menu, or a takeout menu, or special menus like Valentine’s Day, or the Superbowl, can all be shown or hidden. I have also set up a form for reservations. They can also change the notices that pop up when you arrive at the site so that they don’t have to hire me every time they want to make an announcement.
>  
> The last website that I built was for a recording studio in Nanton, Alberta (www.steveloree.com <http://www.steveloree.com/>). He wanted a very basic site that showcased his multiple talents/services, previous projects that he has worked on, contact page etc. I’m pretty happy with it. It is a very clean and straight-forward site.
>  
> Currently, I am working on a local songwriters page and I am also working on a webpage in Victoria BC for an organization the does theatre with people with disabilities. They are going to need to put lots of videos online, host live video etc… that’s going to be fun.
>  
> It sounds like I am doing a lot, but I actually do have lots of time available right now to take on your project if I am what you need. I’d love to talk about what that is.
>  
> Have a great day,
> Scott Wicken
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