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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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Fwd: job at habitatmap.org for an open guides developer
by Earle Martin 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Should we now expect a third similar opportunity, since things happen in threes? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julian Priest <julian(a)informal.org.uk> Date: 03-Apr-2007 01:10 Subject: job at habitatmap.org for an open guides developer To: earle(a)downlode.org Hi Earle, Jo, Saul this job offer from Michael Heimbinder from www.habitatmap.org who I met at the Banff Center last November at the Almost Perfect residency. He's got a great project doing collaborative mapping of environmental hazards and info in Brooklyn and we had a look at using openguides, wikis and openstreetmap as a way of doing that without reinventing wheels which looks like it's borne fruit. I think he's planning smart phone UI too and has a phone dev on board already so could get some mass uptake there too - and it might be interesting to get a new public openguides input out of it too I guess. Do drop him a line if you are interested.. I think it'll go out on the perl lists soon too. cheers /julian Julian Priest email: julian(a)informal.org.uk mail: 108 Mount View Road, Wanganui, NZ home: +64 (0)6 343 1696 mobile: +64 (0)211 808 626 skype: julianpriest time: UTC/GMT +12 hours ----- Forwarded message from Michael Heimbinder <mheimbinder(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:22:55 -0400 From: "Michael Heimbinder" <mheimbinder(a)gmail.com> To: "julian(a)informal.org.uk" <julian(a)informal.org.uk> Open Source Perl Programmer / OpenGuides Developer Pay Rate: TBD Habitatmap.org, a community based non-profit organization, seeks a developer for a wiki- mapping and social networking website based on the OpenGuides platform,www.openguides.org. The qualified candidate must have significant experience with OO Perl, JavaScript, and SQL and feel comfortable with Template Toolkit, CSS, automated testing, and database administration. Interest in environmental and public health issues, city planning, or community organizing are a plus. Preference will be given to candidates in the New York City area, however, we will hire nationally and internationally. Preference will also be given to candidates who are capable of serving as part-time, pay by the hour system administrators once the site is up and running. The job is flexibly scheduled, part-time, contract work. Payments will be made based on deliverables. To apply, email your resume and cover letter to: mheimbinder(a)habitatmap.org. Please include "Programming Job" in the subject line. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Encouragement for OpenGuides RDF work: OG gets a mention in Structured Data blog entry
by Tom Heath 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Hi all, Mike Bergman has written a susbstantial blog entry about linked, structured data on the Web, titled "Did You Blink? The Structured Web Just Arrived" that may be of interest to people on this list, in the light of the recent RDF discussions. <http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=354> The article is mainly focused on dbpedia.org, the RDFized version of Wikipedia, but touches on GeoNames and other general issues we've recently talked about. About 2/3 of the way down the page, under "Extensibility and Relation to Open Data" Mike lists "Additional candidate datasets of interest have also been identified by the SWEO interest group", including a link OpenGuides. Nice exposure for the OG in general, and especially for the RDF/XML support :) Tom.

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categories, locales and tags
by Bob Walker 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

So I was playing with Operator the other day. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106 to see what out microformat support looks like and it occured to me we are missing out on one of them... Tags. We have discussed before that we prefer categories and locales over "tags" becasue they are less freeform. However they are our "tags" and as such we should probably mark them up like that for microformat goodness. It would seem the way to do this is to add rel="tag" in the <a>. Comments, suggetions, patches? -- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ Stress Kittens: Squeeze them till they cry! The latest tech in homicidal tendency relief.

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<base href=...">
by Kake L Pugh 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

I just rationalised up the links in the navbar a bit - previously we'd had a mix of full URLs (e.g. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=rc) and partial URLs (e.g. newpage.cgi). This worked OK, but made it difficult to INCLUDE navbar.tt in your own add-on scripts. What I did for now was make them all be full URLs. However, it might be better to do this by using <base href="[% script_url %]"> and then using partial URLs everywhere. Can anyone give me a quick rundown on the pros and cons of each approach, and which they think would be best for OpenGuides? It's the edge cases I'm worried about. Kake

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open guides development
by michael heimbinder 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

-Hello OpenGuides Developers- I learned of OpenGuides from Julian Priest while we were both participating in a locative media residency in Banff, Canada. Now, I am working to upgrade my current website, www.habitatmap.org, and would like to use OpenGuides as the platform. I hired a programmer to help me out, Rupinder Deol, whom I believe may have contacted you in the recent past. Recently Rupinder has had to step down from the project due to family obligations, and that leaves me looking for another OpenGuides developer for Habitatmap. Can you guys recommend someone for the job. I live in Brooklyn and would love to collaborate with someone local but I am willing to hire someone nationally or internationally. If you're interested, I can send you a detailed description of the project, just let me know. Thanks for the help. -Michael Heimbinder-

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Common categories/locales
by Kake L Pugh 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello! Here's an update on what I'm doing, and a request for input. At the moment, I'm concentrating on making it easier for people to customise their Guides without having to fork. I've added a config option to let you suppress the recent changes on the home page, and I've split out the "guts" of the navbar into smaller sub-templates, so navbar.tt is now incredibly simple: <div id="navbar"> [% INCLUDE navbar_home_link.tt %] [% INCLUDE navbar_tools.tt %] [% INCLUDE navbar_help.tt %] [% INCLUDE navbar_options.tt %] [% INCLUDE navbar_search.tt %] [% INCLUDE navbar_this_page.tt %] [% INCLUDE navbar_revision_info.tt %] </div> (I noticed some people had rearranged the order of things in their navbar; this allows you to do that without potentially locking yourself out of upgrades if we have to make code changes in the navbar templatey bits. And it makes it a lot clearer what's going on, which is good.) Anyway, while I was doing this I came across the question of these common categories/locales. When Nick put them in, Clair asked if they could be moved into the navbar, and Nick said he didn't want to do this, but didn't really explain why. I think they should be in the navbar. Semantically, they belong there; they're means of navigation, entry points into the Guide. Also, I see only three guides that actually have them turned on; RGL has a hacked template that puts them in the navbar anyway, and the other two (can't remember which, sorry) seem not to have noticed them, since they're just stuck awkwardly at the bottom of the page. Nick, can you explain why you think they don't belong in the navbar? The other thing is that they should really be specified in wiki.conf, since (a) they should be configurable, and (b) they need to be run through the node_name_to_node_param method of the formatter before being plonked on the page. I'm not sure of the best way of doing this, since Config::Tiny doesn't let you specify more than one value for a key. Can we assume that nobody will ever want to use a category/locale with a comma in for this purpose, and just use a comma-separated list? Or can someone come up with a better idea? I don't want to rush in with a half-baked solution that will need to be done over again in a few months. Kake

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OpenGuides 0.59 released
by Dominic Hargreaves 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Thanks, largely, to Kake who has returned to the project recently, we have a feature-packaged new release. This'll be the last one, unless there are any major bugs, before I disappear on a journey of marriage and honeymooning next week. As ever, you can fetch the distribution from CPAN (shortly), or directly from http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/OpenGuides-0.59.tar… md5sum is 854d655acdab9f7271d29c3864fbac17 (and it's signed with cpansign, as usual). Debian packages will be making their way into the archive in due course. Below is the extract from UPGRADING: 0.59 Some CSS was altered; you should check and update your stylesheets. See README.CSS for details. Common categories and locales were moved within the navbar Below is the extract from Changes: 0.59 25 March 2007 Move preview_node() and edit_node() from wiki.cgi into OpenGuides.pm Remove edit_conflict.tt - use edit_form.tt instead to reduce duplication. Make sure to always pass the config object into the templates. Add some extra test utilities to OpenGuides::Test Allow Guide admins to control the content of autocreated nodes (#47). Let people add name of copyright holder, licence URL, and info page URL for node images (#179). Add config option to omit recent changes from home page. Split out "modules" from navbar.tt into separate templates navbar_*.tt to make it easier for people to change the order in a custom template Add a new div to wrap the entire body; also, use header.tt in home_node.tt instead of copy/paste. Add a new div for the atom/RSS feed links on the recent changes page. Add config option to place content above navbar in HTML. Add config option to suppress inline maps on geotagged nodes. Add support for custom template to add to page <head> (#191). Fix preferences to take notice of users turning off inline Google maps. Add option to include Google Analytics. Fix "Link to this page" on index maps to remember the map type and the thing it's indexing (#190). Write tests for and fix: #48 (Edit conflict page erroneously converts lat/lon to os_x, os_y). #173 (edit conflict form doesn't let you edit everything). Fix: #184 (Build.PL doesn't treat the absence of Config::Tiny gracefully.) Add admin function for reverting changes by a specified user or host. Cheers, Dominic.

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Release imminent
by Dominic Hargreaves 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Please liase with me if you want to commit anything to SVN from now on - as I am preparing a release. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Open source web design
by Kake L Pugh 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Hello. Those of you who've been on #openguides over the past few days will know that I've been playing with stuff from http://www.oswd.org/ (Open Source Web Design). I found a nice design, and adapted it for OpenGuides. You can see it in action at http://london.randomness.org.uk/ Anyone else who wants their guide to look a little more fashionable may be interested in having a poke around there as well. You may need to do a bit of digging to find something you like, but there's some very nice stuff there, and (I think) it's all licensed under Creative Commons. Kake

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