Nectar Project

Membership

1. Anyone can register – a registered person is a member.
2. Anyone working in the creative industries can fill in additional information so that matches can be performed.
3. This additional information includes:
1. skill sets (allow for ‘present’ and ‘future’ skill sets)
2. geographical regions
3. work environments (e.g., gallery, theatre, etc.)
4. access to technology (darkroom, graphics h/w & s/w, etc.)
4. In addition, members can add text in two categories: experience and goals.
5. Members can upload work sample files – JPEGs, and some AV files (size restrictions)
6. Members must supply an email address, but may specify that the address is “hidden”
7. Additional contact information – www address, phone, street address – can be “unlocked” when a member is invited into another member’s project.
8. Members can maintain a contacts listing (their personalized subset of the nectar membership)
9. Members can opt to accept project invitations only from members on their contact lists.

Projects

1. Projects should have a name and a description
2. Projects also need to belong to a single member
3. Projects have requirements which match the member additional information –
   1. skill sets
   2. geographical regions
   3. work environments
   4. access to technology
4. After a project is created the project leader can search for member matches, select particular members and send them an invite to join the project

Log in page

Members who have logged in see the following on the home page:

1. Nectar news
2. Best and most recent matches to projects
3. My projects” listing
4. Link to change member details
5. Search interface

Additional features

1. A searchable listing of creative industry service providers – stage equipment hire, art supplies, etc.

Front Page

1. Name: Nectar- A hive of creativity
2. Brief description and aim of site
3. Images:
   The second major area on the front page where artists’ works are displayed for around 30 seconds. (I’d like all contributions to be accessible in this way, whether they be video, stills or music files. Id like it so if you click on an image it directs you to the artist/s who did that work. And I’d like that only images that can been seen clearly and “proffectionally” can be put on…. does that make sense? Actually I’d like this format on every page? But, that might be to much time loading?)

Q- do the images need to be a particular format/size/programme?

Other Pages

1. Titles/Areas: disciplines, image/contribution database, projects, search, calendar
   All this category related data could be put into each artist’s database entry, so if s/he had something to put in the calendar then it would go onto the main calendar.
2. Background/Layout: I’d like a buzzie bee mouse arrow! Is that possible? I just don’t know! Colours: red, black, white and a watermark background, maybe designed like the flyer.

Q- where can I put up a pic. of the flyer so you know what im talking about?

I hope this all is making sense. More to come, thanks.

Nectar is a collaboration platform for artists and their projects.