The "so what can we actually do" thread...

[ImSoNotTelling]

Hello

Following on from the thread about changing the law on rape to grant anonimity to the accused, a few people have started to think about what we can do to get involved, to actually try and change stuff.

So I guess this thread is for suggestions, ideas, and for people to link up to actually try to change things.

So far we have someone possibly standing for pariament!

So come on everyone.

What's the plan....

OK right

5quidhost

have a free hosting service which I used for teh website I made. It is a webiste with a lot of pictures but I managed 5 pages full of large picture files before I had to move onto a paid service. which is £2 a month

proles have a looka and see what you think? I don't really understand all the web hosting jargon, but I have found them v good. have responed to queries v quickly and not treated me like a thicky, and I was able to get a pretty good site up using a joomla template v quickly

proles i have a £10 john lewis voucher you can have if you like, for that payment?

I would happily bung a bit of money into the campaigning pot when someone sets up a way to do it

love the petition - have facebooked it (now we'll see how feminist my friends really are....) Did you notice Jess McCabe from The F Word has signed?

This site seems good for those of us not in the know about how to go about setting up a website.

5quidhost looks good but I can't tell if they impose a maximum size on each of the files you upload, also the bandwidth is quite small according to the guide I posted we want 1-3GB.

There is a max size on uploading files but I have uploaded large jpegs no prob.

hold on will have a look.

I think that using a free hosting service to get it up and running would be good - we can always upgrade to a paid service with more capacity either there or elsewhere if we need the space.

the site I did was 5 or 6 pages, with menus and everything, and about 4 large pictures on each page (scrolling down way past the bottom of the screen IYSWIM) + text

max file upload = 10M

Oooh wow this is fab. I'll help however you like! I LOVE "I believe you" - I was raped and so many people didn't believe, but when just one person said that to me, it helped so much. It's an amazing idea for a campaign. I want to see it on a bus!

My DP is a policeman for the Met so I'll speak to him tonight and see if he can do anything re busses? He might know somebody, or be able to get some contacts in the police to get them onside? Just a thought.

There's a support site called Pandora's Aquarium for rape survivors, they'd probably all be really interested in signing the petition etc. You have to join but I'm a member so I can pass the link on later tonight if you want?

I'll blog about the petition, too, and when the site is up and running I'll link to it as long as nobody would mind - it's a, um, "adult blog" with somewhat blatantly kinky overtones subject matter.

Ok, I'll do it tonight! I was meant to leave for holiday shopping ten minutes ago but this distracted me, so must do that first, but this evening it will be done!

Btw if you need help with techie blog stuff I can give it a go, have some experience with mine and some v. techie friends etc.

Also, I second the "Lenin is a genius" vibe!

wordpress looks good too!

i think it is important to do it as cheaply as possible to start with.

so wordpress or 5quidhost or anywhere else people know about?

Ooh, also (sorry, getting carried away...) I can't remember if I saw this somewhere or just thought of it after seeing something else, but because people have an idea of the "type" of woman who gets raped, and how one should react afterwards (ie if you don't react how they think you should, you aren't doing it 'right' and are probably lying, etc)... anyway, as well as having people with signs saying "I believe you" we could have some with people saying "I was". People of all races, classes, ages, etc. Obviously if I did see that as part of a campaign we couldn't just steal it, but we could do a similar sort of thing? Because a big part of people not believing is that they don't want to believe it could happen to them - and if it could happen to this person, just like them, then it could... so easier to believe they're making it up. What do you think?

I can't do anything like design, sorry!

We need a colour for our logo/slogans - something that is strong and will be recognisable.

Branding and all that sort of stuff. Something eye-catching.

Let's give it a little while and see if anyone on here comes up trumps,

Otherwise your designer mate might be worth a pop!

What we could do is look at the links on here to other sites (rape crisis etc) and any others we can think of, and see what we like/don't like.

I think we need to keep the website v simple - I don;t like ones that are cluttered - that could just be me though

But let's start with the logo/s.

just looked at fawcett society front page - don't like it at all. their logo is pretty dire too and difficult to take in at a glance IYSWIM.

there may well be graphic designers on MN who would be willing to help but don't hang out on the feminism threads - is it worth posting elsewhere on the site to ask?

just looking at the truth about rape website

don't like "intros" but it's better - more eye-catching and less cluttered

their site says

"We are a group of women who are committed to making a difference to how society understands rape. We come from many backgrounds and have a diversity of different skills and energies. Most of us are juggling some combination of domestic responsibilities, work, studies, activism - and often much more!! We meet in small groups and as well as working hard on the issues we also take time to be friends to each other. "

are we doing the same thing as them?