About this site

https://www.neme.org/about/about-this-site

This site is NeMe’s first major ongoing project and has been on line since 27 February 2005. The code of the site’s design is licensed under a GNU General Public Licence and it is distributed on github. The site provides valid RSS, & ATOM feeds out of the box, but it is also designed with valid HTML5, CSS3 and Lighthouse’s page speed optimisation standards for the best client experience.

Current editors of this website are Yiannis Colakides and Helene Black.

Texts copyright

All 115 texts in this site are published with the permission of the authors and copyright to those, belongs to them. As such no text published in this site may be translated, reproduced, republished, photographed or stored on microfilm, in electronic databases, video disks, etc., without first obtaining written permission from the authors. The views expressed in these texts do not necessarily reflect those of NeMe as an organisation or its members.

Environmental impact of this website

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The NeMe sites are not currently hosted in a green server but we nevertheless make efforts to make its environmental impact for the end user as small as possible. This has been a challenge, as the introduction and proliferation of mobile devices demand extra styling which means larger downloads.

Relating this with the average internet connection speeds, a shocking connectivity disparity amongst nations is revealed. For many internet users, not only are their speeds low but also, the software they are running might be old – especially as the new trend demands from computer owners to update from the net. In addition, there is the growing-problem of the disappearance of the middle-class and the widening gap between those with money and those without, those who can afford to update their hardware and those who can not. As such, for us, accessibility takes into consideration not only those who face physical challenges but also those who face infrastructural and/or financial ones.

Optimising the server requests

Optimising the server requests saves energy and this is easy as our CMS of choice occupies a very small digital footprint and its flexibility allows for maximum control with fewer server requests.

Optimising the images

As images take up most of the bandwidth and consume more energy when transferred, we opted to reduce their size and number appearing in each page, although we understand that this can be seen as problematic for a cultural organisation which by definition, is dedicated to the production and/or presentation of quality audio-visual content. Taking into consideration, both the connectivity disparity and the carbon footprint, we were faced with the challenge to reduce page size without making the website purely textual. Although we are fully aware that this method is negatively affecting the so called visual graphic impact of our pages, we nevertheless believe that sacrifices should be made in order to reduce carbon emissions and still hope that you will enjoy your visit here.

Delivery speed

Although the speeds of the delivery of our pages are dependent to your internet connection and the load on our server, we have implemented three methodologies in order to reduce the energy consumed via web-transfers.

  1. Our sites are served using the HTTP/2 protocol.
  2. Our pages code is minimised.
  3. Our pages are gziped before transfer.
  4. Our pages and media are cached which reduces server requests.

Content Disclaimer

Despite careful scrutiny, NeMe and the editors do not guarantee the correctness, relevance or completeness of the information published on this website. In the case of material or non-material damages resulting from the use of the offered information, absolutely no liability claims directed at NeMe and/or the editors are to be asserted. NeMe and the editors reserve the right to change the website in its entirety or in part without notice, or to stop publishing entirely. (Read our complete policy).

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NeMe sites which include www.neme.org, and a-sea-change.net, are authored using customised open source software. For both domains, we use the wonderfully versatile Textpattern CMS.

This website coheres to GDPR and the WAI of the W3C. Whenever possible it tries to meet the highest standards set by the W3C.

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