News From "The Party"

Last Updated (Thursday, 03 July 2008 13:35)Written by AdministratorWednesday, 14 May 2008 22:39

By Mark Buchman
Chair of the San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party Central Committee

Wow!

There is so much going on.  First of all, I believe I heard that there is grant money we can apply for to offset the cost of the Fair booth.

Then, there is the Neighborhood Leader program that allows you to learn of Dems on just one street or many streets.   Then we can contact them and keep them in touch.

I attended the Rural Caucus, the Platform Caucus and the Federation of County Central Committees and Chairs.  I offered to and will be writing a "how to manual" for committee chairs and committees, so that important dates are not missed and to define committee responsiblities.

The Neighborhood Leadership workshop showed some real promise as a source for great walk lists and voter data. We will look into that
more.

Good to be back in SLO though!

Mark

Welcome to the New San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party Official Website!

Written by JB

We are the San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party You can contact us anytime at our San Luis Obispo telephone: (805) 546-8499 or visit us at our downtown San Luis Obispo office which is located at 1110 Morro Street (between Higuera and Marsh). Most weekdays the office is open from 10AM to 2PM. We also have a booth at Farmer's Market Thursday nights in San Luis Obispo.

Welcome to the brand new website of the San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party! The new website is powered by some pretty cool technology. Each page is actually created as it is being requested by the visitor. At this point most of the technology is working pretty well. (But not all of it. Please be patient until we can work the kinks out.) We've got a functional calendar, a blog, forums, and other features. We've also hooked in a newsfeed which will keep updating articles on politics (see it to the right). The feed doesn't have much bite, so if you know of a better RSS news feed source, let us know and we'll upgrade to it.

There are additional levels to the website. The website has the capability of creating special functionality for folks who become Editors. When Editors log in they have additional links which become visible enabling them to edit articles and make decisions about which articles get published and so forth. There are additional levels for Administrators who can deal with what menu buttons appear where, etc. In addition to what is happening in the main website we also have a web log (Blog) and a very powerful forums system. These features also have different functionality depending on your registration status. For example, when various forums are created, some of them may be private and others public depending on membership to the forum.

The main graphic is just a placeholder for the time being. Once we've settled on a new graphic we'll replace the one at the top of all of the pages. The website technology allows us to do this easily.

Please don't get your shorts in a knot about the content of the site being lacking right now. Content can only be added once the underlying engines are working reasonably well. So, the content will be coming... just as soon as we catch up on some of the sleep we have lost in the past weeks while getting this puppy up and walking....zzzzz...z