OpenGuides-Dev April 2007

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The Tourist Engineer is back
by Rev Simon Rumble 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Hi folks. Thanks to a little help from Kake, my Openguide is back up and running. Kake, I really appreciate it as you made me do the (surprisingly small) tasks required. It's pretty well despammed, I believe, but if you notice anything let me know. I'll have this run for a bit and might soon think about a Sydney Openguide. The sites for this town are really quite lousy. Nothing as good as Beer In The Evening. -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net "It's the good girls who keep the diaries, the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead

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Domain renewals
by Dominic Hargreaves 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hi all, For information: I've renewed the following domains for another year recently (well, December; this mail's been kicking around for a while): openguides.org openguides.net openguides.info openguides.eu wiki-toolkit.org To date I have spent GBP101.05 on domain fees for the project -- which is fine and completely my choice. But if you fancy contributing to the project (absolutely no obligation) then you can do so with credit/debit cards at http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/misc/openguides-donate.html or by bank transfer directly; email me for details. If the payments received exceed the amount I've spent... I'll just renew the domains some more :) Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Paid-for OpenGuides work
by Kake L Pugh 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Just a heads-up to let people know that the job spec for the work Michael Heimbinder recently asked about on this list has now been submitted to jobs.perl.org. He says it should show up on the site very soon! Once it's visible there, I'll post to london.pm to make sure people know about it - unless someone else spots it and gets there first :) London.pm has enough international members that it'll likely percolate quite quickly from there to somewhere more local to Michael. I'm quite excited about this, not only because it'll mean we get to be famous OMG famous, but because I hope it might bring some new blood into the project, which would be fantastic. Michael's asked if he and I could chat on the phone about OpenGuides. He's going to phone me at 4pm BST on Wednesday; I can pass on anything that any of you lot might like to tell or ask him. I'll have my laptop in front of me during the call, so may possibly be grabbable on IRC, but don't rely on it. Kake

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Wiki::Toolkit Unicode error?
by Earle Martin 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Has anyone else encountered this, and/or is able to suggest a fix? [After trying to save a node:] DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xa3 at ../lib/Wiki/Toolkit.pm line 895 -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Google developer day, 31 May 2007
by Kake L Pugh 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

http://www.google.com/events/developerday/index.html I've signed up for the London one. Kake

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Preview above edit box.
by Kake L Pugh 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Any objections to me making the user preference for "put preview above edit box" default to "on"? Kake

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Resources for OpenGuides development
by Kake L Pugh 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

An idea that popped into my head earlier today: 16:53 <Kake> OK. Shared del.icio.us account for links and things relevant to openguides development - good idea or bad idea? 16:54 <Kake> I'm thinking a separate account for the same reason I made del.icio.us/kake_food - domain-specific means we can tag with more granularity. 16:54 <Kake> Also because it lets us all add to it. 16:55 <Kake> It makes it easier to have consensus on tags, you don't have to look up the deliciouses of all other openguiders to figure out what tag to use, you just look at the list for the openguides delicious. 16:56 <Kake> This is about 5 minutes' thought, so feedback would be good. Thoughts? Kake

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openguides.org website
by Kake L Pugh 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hello! I just committed some changes (changeset [1018]) to svn for the openguides.org website, specifically updating the "latest news". What needs to be done to put these changes live? Also, I wanted to suggest a change to the stylesheet, but that's Earle's domain so I didn't want to just commit it without asking. Could we have the line-height increased a bit? Say to 1.3em? See here: http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/tmp/ogsite/page and compare: http://openguides.org/ I do think the former is more legible. Kake

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WikiIndex.org
by Kake L Pugh 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Found via AboutUs, a directory of wikis and wiki engines: http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php There's already a page for OpenGuides; I fleshed it out a bit: http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Category:OpenGuides So far the only OpenGuides installs that have pages of their own are Oxford, Milton Keynes, and the two London ones. Oxford's is a bit bare-bones and could do with some attention. I'll add Vegan Oxford shortly. Kake

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AboutUs.org
by Kake L Pugh 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

This was pointed out on #london.pm IRC earlier: http://www.aboutus.org/ It's basically a website about websites, running on MediaWiki. It has a bot that crawls the web finding out about various websites and making them skeleton pages which people can then add more details to. It really looks quite nice. It already has a page for openguides.org: http://www.aboutus.org/OpenGuides.org but it doesn't understand subdomains so you have to add e.g. london.openguides.org boston.openguides.org manually. I added RGL: http://www.aboutus.org/London.randomness.org.uk It might be worth all guide admins taking the time to make sure their guide's on there, and adding a couple of nice screenshots. And of course we'll all want to add each other to our "related domains". (Alternatively, if you decide you hate the whole idea of AboutUs, please ignore the suggestions in this mail and instead treat it as a warning that your domain information may already be on there. Note however that if you use their search box to search for your domain, if it hasn't already got it then it will add it.) Kake

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OpenGuides-Dev April 2007