Stefan Milenkovic:

WebMunki!

Stef is working on the site in his spare time - he is also a volunteer at The Citizens Advice bureau. If you have any issues with the site then send some mail. Webmunki@survivorsmanchester.org.uk

He has had two careers which have run largely concurrently: After moving to San Francisco as a 19 year old and living as a homeless munki he became an adviser-advocate-trainer-shoulder-to-cry-on for street youth, people with HIV or other blood born pathogens and young people in recovery or coping with problematic drug use and or mental health difficulties.

In this role he worked with Health Initiatives for Youth, BAY Young Positives and the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health AIDS Office through a street outreach initiative but eventually became more politically active and lobbied the US government as a board member for the National Association of People with AIDS: NAPWA.

The Munki loves doing the behind the scenes stuff! He is very much a believer in the Open Source principles. He has used Macintosh computers since the Quadra 605, and Linux since Slackware version something or other. This site was built on his lovely new iMac. He prefers XHTML, PHP/MySQL, Ajax, JavaScript which he writes by hand in his HTML editor of choice: BBEdit.

What would you like to see Survivors Manchester do in Manchester?

I would like to see Survivors Manchester enable its clients to take on a political role to advocate for change and openness for themselves and other survivors.

Do you have a message for Greater Manchester residents?

Please stop digging up the streets over and over, if the gas company and the water company want to work on Piccadilly (for example) could somebody, anybody, please ask them to talk to one another and do it at the same time: Also - would someone open a nice coffeeshop! I would like comfy couches, an enclosed smoking area, off a main road but in the city centre, maybe near a banana tree? too much to ask? perhaps!

About the site:

The site is currently very 'drafty' and static - but it should validate as 'XHMTL 1.0 Strict' and CSS2.1 but you will probably find insignificant errors. I will be improving the site significantly over the next months as and when time allows: I intend to move the site to HTML5 and CSS3 as they are The Future!!!! and will add more interactivity, tidy the code as I replace it and generally gussy things up some. If you have suggestions - as mentioned above - mail me.

I have sought to ensure that the site is accessible to people using screen reading programs and that the text can be manipulated without the site falling apart. For this reason, I have decided that the aesthetic appeal of the site to users of MSIE is less important than is the necessity for me to remain complaint with accessibility standards.

Where a conflict has arisen accessibility has won.