14 May
2007
14 May
'07
5:18 p.m.
I hereby declare this week, from now until the end of Sunday, as open
season on other people's Open Guides. This means that we want to
encourage members of the OpenGuides community to visit other guides in
the network, and add content, perform housekeeping tasks, and generally
Make Things Better.
The following guides have explicity agreed to participate:
The Oxford Guide <http://oxford.openguides.org>
The Randomness Guide to London <http://london.randomness.org.uk/>
The Vegan Guide to Oxford
<http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/openguides/vegan-oxford.cgi>
Tourist Engineer <http://engineer.openguides.org/>
Open Guide to Milton Keynes <http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/>
but as long as you follow the house rules of the guides in question,
there is no reason why you shouldn't help improve other guides listed
on http://openguides.org/ as well.
Cheers,
Dominic.
--
Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/
PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)
14 May
14 May
5:46 p.m.
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:18:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
I hereby declare this week, from now until the end of
Sunday, as open
season on other people's Open Guides. This means that we want to
encourage members of the OpenGuides community to visit other guides in
the network, and add content, perform housekeeping tasks, and generally
Make Things Better.
The following guides have explicity agreed to participate:
The Oxford Guide <http://oxford.openguides.org>
The Randomness Guide to London <http://london.randomness.org.uk/>
The Vegan Guide to Oxford
<http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/openguides/vegan-oxford.cgi>
Tourist Engineer <http://engineer.openguides.org/>
Open Guide to Milton Keynes <http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/>
Feel free to add Boston to this list. (I'm just lazy and didn't
respond.) :)
http://boston.openguides.org/
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
15 May
15 May
3:11 a.m.
On Mon 14 May 2007, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt(a)crschmidt.net> wrote:
Feel free to add Boston to this list. (I'm just
lazy and didn't
respond.) :)
http://boston.openguides.org/
And Saint Paul! I've been playing around with it today.
http://saintpaul.openguides.org/
Kake
14 May
14 May
7:35 p.m.
Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
I hereby declare this week, from now until the end of
Sunday, as open
season on other people's Open Guides. This means that we want to
encourage members of the OpenGuides community to visit other guides in
the network, and add content, perform housekeeping tasks, and generally
Make Things Better.
Once upon a time I had good intentions:
http://north-devon.openguides.org/
would be very pleased to meet you.
paul
7:46 p.m.
On Mon 14 May 2007, Paul Sharpe <paul(a)coreware.co.uk> wrote:
Once upon a time I had good intentions:
http://north-devon.openguides.org/
would be very pleased to meet you.
Ooh, brilliant! I can add the Good Beer Guide pubs in the area, if you
like? I have a copy of the 2007 GBG, and a scripty thing to make uploading
them easier.
Feel free to jump on IRC (#openguides on irc.perl.org) and chat; there's a
couple of us around at the moment (well, there's me, and I think crschmidt
is still lurking).
Kake
15 May
15 May
3:14 a.m.
On Mon 14 May 2007, Kake L Pugh <kake(a)earth.li> wrote:
Ooh, brilliant! I can add the Good Beer Guide pubs in
the area, if you
like? I have a copy of the 2007 GBG, and a scripty thing to make uploading
them easier.
OK, done :) Might do the Wetherspoons pubs at some point too.
Could you get a Google Maps API key for the guide, so we can look at
things on maps? More details in README.GMAPS; the relevant bit is below:
To use Google Maps, you need to get an API key from
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html. When you've put this value into
the config file as gmaps_api_key, the maps become available to you in two
places. Firstly, if you've set "show_gmap_in_node_display", and if the
user
has set their preferences to display Google Maps, any node which has
location information will get an inset map pinpointing the location.
Secondly, the URL
http://.../wiki.cgi?action=index;format=map becomes a large map with a list
of all nodes (regardless of the user settings).
Kake
9:31 a.m.
Kake L Pugh wrote:
Could you get a Google Maps API key for the guide, so
we can look at
things on maps? More details in README.GMAPS; the relevant bit is below:
I have a key,
To use Google Maps, you need to get an API key from
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html. When you've put this value into
the config file as gmaps_api_key, the maps become available to you in two
places.
but I'm not sure I have access to the config file. Dominic?
paul
9:34 a.m.
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:31:47AM +0100, Paul Sharpe wrote:
Kake L Pugh wrote:
No, but I can slot this in for you - just email me the key.
Dominic.
--
Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/
PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)
Could you get a Google Maps API key for the
guide, so we can look at
things on maps? More details in README.GMAPS; the relevant bit is below:
I have a key,
To use Google Maps, you need to get an API key
from
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html. When you've put this value into
the config file as gmaps_api_key, the maps become available to you in two
places.
but I'm not sure I have access to the config file. Dominic? 
17 May
17 May
11:39 p.m.
Hey Kake et al,
Great that the Visit another OG week is on :) Your contributions to
the OGMK didn't go unnoticed - sadly we have almost zero GBG pubs in
the entire "city" <sigh/>
Ooh, brilliant! I can add the Good Beer Guide pubs in
the area, if you
like? I have a copy of the 2007 GBG, and a scripty thing to make uploading
them easier.
On that subject, what's the licensing status for this data? I'd love
to add it into Revyu, but is it "owned" in some fashion by the GBG?
Tom "I'm not a lawyer, but..." Heath ;)
11:43 p.m.
On Thu 17 May 2007, Tom Heath <tom.heath(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As I understand it (although only through having read stuff written by
the copyright paranoia fanatics on Wikipedia), it's not possible to
copyright facts such as "this pub is mentioned in the Good Beer Guide"
or "this pub is open from 9am to midnight".
Kake
Ooh,
brilliant! I can add the Good Beer Guide pubs in the area, if you
like? I have a copy of the 2007 GBG, and a scripty thing to make uploading
them easier.
On that subject, what's the licensing status for this data? I'd love
to add it into Revyu, but is it "owned" in some fashion by the GBG?
18 May
18 May
12:03 a.m.
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:43:35PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
On Thu 17 May 2007, Tom Heath
<tom.heath(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As I understand it (although only through having read stuff written by
the copyright paranoia fanatics on Wikipedia), it's not possible to
copyright facts such as "this pub is mentioned in the Good Beer Guide"
or "this pub is open from 9am to midnight".
However, you seem to be harvesting information from what is essentially
a database, and database rights (separate from copyright - the rights you
acquire when compiling a database) apply to databases.
The details are murky and complex and for this reason I find it's best
to avoid this sort of activity.
Dominic.
--
Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/
PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)
Ooh,
brilliant! I can add the Good Beer Guide pubs in the area, if you
like? I have a copy of the 2007 GBG, and a scripty thing to make uploading
them easier.
On that subject, what's the licensing status for this data? I'd love
to add it into Revyu, but is it "owned" in some fashion by the GBG?
12:28 a.m.
On Fri 18 May 2007, Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> wrote:
However, you seem to be harvesting information from
what is essentially
a database, and database rights (separate from copyright - the rights you
acquire when compiling a database) apply to databases.
I'm not convinced database rights apply to things like "this book
mentions this pub", but I'm happy for any of my contributions to other
guides to be deleted if the guide admins decide they don't want them.
If you want to find out pub opening hours for yourself, I've found
that around 5pm seems to be a good time to phone them up and ask,
since there tends to be more than one staff member around but the
after-work rush hasn't started yet. (This might not apply outside
cities though.)
Kake
midnight
Salut à tous!
On 14/05/07, Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> wrote:
but as long as you follow the house rules of the
guides in question,
there is no reason why you shouldn't help improve other guides listed
on http://openguides.org/ as well.
Sorry for being so quiet recently, I've been getting sorted out for
RoCoCoCamp. As I'm now in Montréal, I'd like to extend the invitation
to here as well, at http://montreal.openguides.org/ . Hopefully it'll
be getting some good activity as I'll be encouraging people here to
use it ("wikification of the city" is on the agenda).
À bientôt,
Earle
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
5746
days inactive
5749
days old
openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org
13 comments
6 participants
participants (6)
-
Christopher Schmidt -
Dominic Hargreaves -
Earle Martin -
Kake L Pugh -
Paul Sharpe -
Tom Heath