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[bernstein@eastgate.com: About WikiSym '08]
by Dominic Hargreaves 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

I'm not able to attend, but if anyone else is interested in doing so, please do! Dominic. ----- Forwarded message from Mark Bernstein <bernstein(a)eastgate.com> ----- X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.3 From: Mark Bernstein <bernstein(a)eastgate.com> To: dom(a)earth.li Subject: About WikiSym '08 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:06:25 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Urchin-Spam-Score-Int: -16 I'm the Program Chair for WikiSym '08, the Fourth International ACM Symposium on Wikis. WikiSym '08 September 8-10 Porto, Portugal http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/ I'd very much like you to consider writing a paper, a short paper, or proposing a panel discussion for this year's WikiSym. There's still plenty of time before the May 3 deadline! And don't overlook the opportunity for demos — a superb way to introduce new ideas and new techniques to the best wiki minds and the most active wiki developers. Posters and demos can be submitted as late as June 11th. Submissions will be carefully reviewed — I'm very proud of this year's distinguished program committee -- and I'm looking forward to an exceptionally strong and exciting program. http://www.wikisym.org/index.php?p=19 call for papers Porto is a delightful place, ideal for a working conference like WikiSym: modern, comfortable, interesting, and refreshing. It has excellent connections with a range of discount air carriers, and it's a short and easy flight from the East coast of the US and Canada. We're even planning to take this year's OpenSpace program out into the city as a WikiWalk, in addition to the exciting new WikiFest event for starting and cultivating new wikis. I am especially interested in strengthening ties between wiki scholarship and practice, and between theoretical work in WIki culture and business Wiki work. I do hope you and your colleagues will consider submitting to the program, and I'd be happy to answer any questions that might arise, or to lend and advice I can. Finally, if your organization would benefit from building a stronger and more active wiki community, helping to sponsor scholarly conferences like ACM WikiSym can give you exceptional leverage. Even prestigious and selective conferences like WikiSym — sponsored by ACM, in cooperation with SIGWeb — are run on a shoestring, and sponsorships of only a few hundred dollars or euros can make a very real difference, and evoke very real gratitude from the community. Again, feel free to let me know if you'd like to explore this. Thanks again! Mark Bernstein program chair, WikiSym '08 Mark Bernstein bernstein@eastgate,com (617) 924-9044 Eastgate Systems, Inc. http://www.eastgate.com (800) 562-1638 134 Main St. http://tekka.net/ Watertown MA 02472 USA http://markBernstein.org ----- 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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Anniversary meet!
by Kake L Pugh 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hello. Apparently the OpenGuides project is five years old this month. We should have a meetup! Is anyone willing to cat-herd for this? If not, then I will do it, but I'm really quite busy at the moment so it would be lovely if someone else could. All you need to do is find a date some time in the next few months that as many people as possible can make (and it would be best if it's one that me, Dom, Ivor, and Earle can all manage), choose between Oxford and London, and then ask Dom (Oxford) or me (London) to pick the venue. If you've been wondering what you can do for the project, this is something! Kake

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Pictures on Flickr that have been copied
by Andrew Black - lists 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Not specifically an OG issue but I am a little annoyed by the following Are the following pictures by any chance related : http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewblack/2321888002/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_fawbert/2322946520/ A bit of background. I took some pictures of some local places, partly for the following page http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&lr=lang_en&hl=en&msa=0&msid=11593292… and partly for RGL. The guy who has "stolen" my picture is the maintained of the google map. I hardly know they guy (met him a couple of times) but I do know a mutual friend reasonably well. Think I will go via this friend. Legally I think he has infringed my copyright. Even if I had licenced my picture as CC he should attribute me. I (implicitly) gave him permission to use the pics on the google map. Should have asked for attribution.

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Question
by David Andel 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi all I have just discovered openguides.org and I like the Idea and also the software. I certainly want to set up pages for a few cities I am personally interested in. Maybe I will even offer hosting for other admins. But one thing I would like to know: what is the position of you guys concerning Google ads on openguides.org pages? Thanks in advance, David

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Lancaster? Glasgow?
by Kake L Pugh 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Are the Lancaster and Glasgow guide admins still on this list? If not, is anyone in touch with them? Their guides have been down for a while now - if they're not coming back, we should take them off the front page of openguides.org - and if they would like to come back, we should try to help! Kake

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What's your guide for?
by Kake L Pugh 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

While we were chatting on #openguides IRC, perigrin asked me and Bob why we find RGL useful. We came up with a lot of stuff, which I have summarised below. I thought this might be a good question for other guide admins/users to ask themselves. What do you like about your guide(s)? Why do you use them? I would be interested to hear your answers. Bob uses RGL to keep track of known decent pubs. He also likes writing reviews as a means of procrastination :) I use it: - to keep track of known decent pubs and restaurants - to help me find pubs near specific restaurants (for meeting in before dinner) - to note down the quirks of various Tube/rail stations; see e.g. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Wimbledon_Station http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Green_Park_Station - as a quick reference for which central stations are served by specific outlying stations, to help me plan my journey when I'm visiting an unfamiliar area - to note down which dishes are the best ones in local takeaways - to find cafes and pubs that I can stop off at when I'm on a long walk - as somewhere central to keep links to reviews, forum posts, etc about a given place, so if I'm meeting someone somewhere I can just give them a single RGL link instead of three map links, two pub review site links, etc In the past, I've used it to keep a list of restaurants I'd not visited but wanted to - but the list got too big so I stopped doing that because I didn't want RGL to have too many stub pages with no original content. This is basically because London's so big - I have no such qualms about the Cambridge guide, which I also have a hand in running. I also just had an email this morning from a friend who says she's using RGL to help her explore her neighbourhood. She plans to visit a new place every week and write it up for RGL. Kake

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North Devon Open Guide
by Dominic Hargreaves 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hi all, Just a note to say that I've added North Devon to the http://openguides.org/ home page, at Paul's request. His guide as at http://north-devon.openguides.org/ Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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UK guide admins: GroupsNearYou
by Dominic Hargreaves 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

I've added the Oxford Guide to this new mySociety site: http://www.groupsnearyou.com/ might be a useful way of drumming up interest (though it might depend on the size of your catchment - the bounding box it allows you isn't quite big enough for the area I wanted for the Oxford Guide. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Cover me, I'm going in
by Earle Martin 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Check out our hot test statistics: http://openguides.downlode.org/cover_db/coverage.html Pretty swish. Mad props all round. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Re: [OGDev] [OSM-offlist-talk] Storing extensive notes on points of interest in OSM?
by Adam Boardman via Dominic Hargreaves 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

[repost of private mail to list] > We're having a hackfest some time in the new year, though, and I will > try and make this a priority, as a single point of entry/search for > OpenGuides is indeed quite important. Excellent :) It is quite a change from the distributed approach you've taken so far. > We tend to export mostly in RDF format with geo namespaces; is this > likely to be useful? (see the RDF format search on one of the existing > guides for an example). RDF sounds fine (XML format), what about the return path, say you've got WhereAmI (my app) on your phone, you've identified your location with GPS or GSM CellID, downloaded the map around you, listed the openguides locations, picked your pub for lunch, routed to it, had a meal, but found an error in the guide, what is the desired return path? Would it make sense to have a 'comment' option where you just describe the change to the entry, then next time someone on the web views that article they see the suggestion, and can edit the article according to the suggestion, this would then archive the comment. Or we could go for allowing editing of the entire article on the phone and then upload the new version. I presume that with your distributed architecture you have independant user accounts on each site, what about supporting openid? or something else? to let remote users authenticate their changes. Cheers, Adam.

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