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Hackhackhack
by Dominic Hargreaves 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

[copying to Oxford list as the likely venue] Hello, I would like to arrange another hackfest. Probably in Oxford, probably in September or (if necessary) October. All day Saturday and/or Sunday. I am trying to sort out some hosting at my workplace (well equipped with conference room space and wireless, and central Oxford location) but that's not confirmed yet. So, who would like to come and: - make a CSS design suitable for shipping with the default OpenGuides distribution - implement a global OpenGuides portal - improve the mobile device support of OpenGuides - improve the user interface of OpenGuides - fix/triage a hundred and one little bugs[1] - meet like-minded people, hack, socialise, maybe even do some Oxford data collection if you want to get out in the open and above *make OpenGuides even better*? If so, either reply to me letting me know which weekends in September or October you could make, or if you're a fan of these newfangled web things, visit http://www.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=I3MEHE Let me know if you would bring a laptop with wireless, or would like a computer to be provided. Cheers, Dominic. [1] http://dev.openguides.org/report/1 -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) _______________________________________________ openguides-oxford mailing list openguides-oxford(a)lists.urchin.earth.li http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/openguides-oxford

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OpenGuides anniversary pubmeet in Oxford today!
by Dominic Hargreaves 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Hello, Apologies to anyone who's only just heard about this - I'd completely forgotten about this list. Today users and developers of OpenGuides are invited to come and meet at the Turf Tavern, Oxford, from noon onwards, to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the project. http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/Anniversary Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) _______________________________________________ openguides-oxford mailing list openguides-oxford(a)lists.urchin.earth.li http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/openguides-oxford

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New maps, and general hellos
by Dominic Hargreaves 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hello all, To anyone who joined since there was last any traffic on this list (!) and anyone else, just thought I'd drop a note to let you know about a new addition to the Oxford Guide (although it has been there in a similar form for a while). Most of you will hopefully be aware that OpenGuides will automatically produce a Google Maps map of the node, on node pages, if there is geographical information available, and additionally that you can plot all the (geo-enabled) nodes on a map at http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?action=index;format=map This used to just be Google maps, but now the default view is from http://www.openstreetmap.org/ which has fairly good coverage of Oxford (thanks to a handful of us who have been surveying over the past two years). I'm pleased to be able to offer this as a demonstration of the mapping data that it's possible to generate with a bit of community effort. Anyone who's lurking on here, do say hello - it's good to hear from our contributors! Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) _______________________________________________ openguides-oxford mailing list openguides-oxford(a)lists.urchin.earth.li http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/openguides-oxford

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edamame restaurant review oxford
by walshworks＠aol.com 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

I love edamame. An oriental restaurant without the grease and a change from the ubiquitous 'noodle-bar' interpretation of japanese cuisine. There's an illustrated review on www.badaude.typepad.com which really captures the atmosphere of the place and shows you all you need to know, including pics of the dishes!

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Oxford meetup
by Dominic Hargreaves 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

In case there is anyone lurking here who isn't on the dev list and would be interested: This weekend we will be having a development/social meetup: http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordMeetup2006 everyone is very welcome to come along to whichever bits interest them. Also, can anyone think of good venues for the Friday and Sunday?: Friday: - the impossible: quiet pub, has some food, good beer, centralish/South Oxford. Or at least some of the above. Sunday - Coffee shop with free wireless, wouldn't mind us settling in for the day as a base for mapping/geeking. Central or somewhere near the unmapped bits of Oxford. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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SPARQL interface to Oxford Openguide RDF
by Inigo Surguy 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

I've used Joseki to put up a SPARQL interface to querying the Oxford OpenGuides RDF at http://surguy.net/joseki/query.html e.g. PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> SELECT ?title ?lat ?long WHERE { ?place dc:subject 'Pubs' . ?place dc:title ?title . ?place geo:lat ?lat . ?place geo:long ?long } to find the latitude and longitude of all the pubs. It will return XML, formatted text, or JSON. The data is from a spider of the site that I did today - I've got the code to keep it up-to-date from Recent Changes, but I haven't hooked it in yet. I probably will in the next few days. Cheers Inigo

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Moderation
by Dominic Hargreaves 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Due to the huge amount of spam we've been getting lately as http://syndicated.livejournal.com/oxguide_edits/ will attest, I've hacked up a moderation system. All new comments will, until further notice, not be displayed until approved by me. This is hopefully a short-term solution - don't worry, this isn't something I intend to be used long-term and it's something I wish I didn't need to do at all. The edit page now says: "Currently all submissions are being moderated so won't appear on the wiki immediately. Don't panic! However, you may wish to make more careful use of the preview function." Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Opening hours audit
by Dominic Hargreaves 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

----- Forwarded message from IvorW <ivorw-openguides(a)xemaps.com> ----- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:45:36 -0500 From: IvorW <ivorw-openguides(a)xemaps.com> To: openguides-dev(a)openguides.org Subject: [OGDev] Opening hours audit Reply-To: OpenGuides software developers' list <openguides-dev(a)openguides.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Please distribute to any UK guide specific mailing lists: With the recent change to UK pub licensing, our "Opening Hours" data could be very important, especially if we are keeping it up to date, and seen to be keeping it up to date. I suggest that anyone doing new write ups, or visiting pubs already in the guides, checks what the hours are/will be. I also suggest adding a small entry to the body content, stating that the hours were checked, with a date. Could also be potential for a few crawls :). Ivor. -- OpenGuides-Dev mailing list - OpenGuides-Dev(a)openguides.org http://openguides.org/mm/listinfo/openguides-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Host move
by Dominic Hargreaves 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

I've moved the Oxford Guide off Compsoc, as the Compsoc machine is being retired next week. Handily, the new host, urchin.earth.li, has been upgraded to a dual 3GHz Xeon recently, so OpenGuides, despite its best efforts, shoudn't be *too* slow :) The canonical URL for the Oxford Guide is http://oxford.openguides.org/ The static content is still being served by Compsoc but I expect to move that soon without trouble. This list will probably move soon too. Let me know of any problems. Cheers, -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Minor licence update
by Dominic Hargreaves 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I've switched the Oxford Guide licence to Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/>, <http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2005-May/002313.html> from 2.0. This essentially only formalizes the ability to attribute to a collective work (ie the wiki) as was already detailed in the licence policy, so this shouldn't affect anyone's rights in any way. Cheers, -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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