About Us

This site serves to coordinate the activities of groups dedicated to the advancement of the Fremont California subcommunity of Niles.

This site is not really intended to be the external promotion or advertisement place, it is more intended to be a place for the community to talk within itself, a place where the groups can coordinate themselves and coordinate across groups.

Toward this, the site is is a wiki edited directly by the participants. Site officers can edit the main news and external site structure and can grant edit rights to event/community owners such as the Niles Dog Show. The event or community owner then decides what is to be said in their section and who has edit privileges. Pages may be open to the public, open to any site member, or open only to event/community members. You can change this site. Try it!

Within a community the contents of the web pages and the navigation hierarchy is up to the community owner. Templates may be used to quick start the effort, but these are only starting points and those with edit rights to the community may delete or add features as many times and in any order they desire.

This site has no official endorsement or standing. The quality of information in it is solely dependent upon those who edit the information and on the section owners. Section owners will be named, and sections without a named owner should be considered to be merely examples of the content that such a section might contain.

Why are we offering this? This is a new technology we are offering and we want to get some initial groups using it. We expect that as this technology gets used we will collect feedback and use it to improve our offering. So why Niles? This technology is being offered by Metabyte -- a company based in Fremont and owned by Fremont residents. (You have probably seen our sign if you drive up Walnut.) The lead architect is a Niles resident whose wife's family has lived in Niles since 1910. Our technology is targeted toward real communities, and the one we live in is a natural first choice. What is this technology? This site uses an innovative web technology that allows web sites to be edited by its viewing community. It is similar to Wikis but has more widgets (such as calendars, image galleries, discussion boards, and structured navigation) and so it is more simple and powerful.

What do I have to do in order to use it?
Anybody may browse these pages just like other web pages. (Some parts of the sites are visible only to those who have logged in.) Those who register get the right to change the content on the site. Some parts are editable by anybody, some can be edited only by their groups. Each section will have a group leader from the community who decides who is a member of their group. We are offering invitations for group leadership to those we observe as being active in that community. If you would like to own a community or would like another community, please contact us: lslater@metabyte.com

To learn how to use this, visit http://userguide.hotdoodle.com

What can this site do?

• Text block -- Holds text including pictures. Equivalent to a Wiki
• Image Managers and Galleries -- allows images to be uploaded. Image managers mainly support images that will be used in text blocks, image galleries mainly support images that will be presented to the public.
• Article Managers -- holds a series of text blocks and links presenting just a summary and allowing full details to be browsed.
• Resource Managers -- allows files to be uploaded and downloaded
• Calendars -- presents events in a timeline
• Bulletin Boards -- allows discussions.
• Blogs -- allows a serial recording of thoughts or progress.
• Group Management -- members and team owners decide the groups to which they belong and this information is made available as decided by the group owner.