Bill Ricker wrote: >> ...Wikispaces page. (I think I have a site setup for Boston.pm there, >> just awaiting content.) > > pointer ? that might kick start group use so make it worthwhile.
http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/ Created a year ago. I had intended to do an initial cut of the conversion, but it perpetually sits just out of reach at the bottom of my todo list. I guess now is as good a time as any to try and move it forward. Maria Huang wrote: > ...I think I can convert pages at home... Yes, there's no need to do this as an in-person meeting. That was just an idea to create a meeting topic that would also be productive for the group. I think the reasoning behind not opening up the conversion to volunteers before is that Bill wanted to see how it would look before committing to switching over Boston.pm to use he new service. > And any deadline for this? None. The sooner it goes done, the sooner Bill can reduce or eliminate his efforts to repair spam and vandalism that occurs with our current wiki. > And where is old wiki site? http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/ > ...just need some instructions. The first step is to go to: http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/ and login (you can use OpenID) or create an account, and then request membership in the Boston.pm wikispace. I've picked a theme, colors, and created a logo. (That's the "Ubuntu Mono" font. I struggled to find something evocative of a terminal font that still looked OK when scaled up to logo size. That aside, I just combined the stock Perl onion with "Boston.pm". You should compare it to the logo I did for the Boston.pm LinkedIn group, as you might like that better.) I converted over the main page. A little bit of intro text, links to pm.org, perl.org, our mailing list page (needs to be created), our jobs posting policy page (needs to be created), and I threw in a Creative Commons licensed picture of the Zakim Bridge for some cliché Boston flavor. I added a section titled "Recent Meetings" which will automatically display the 5 most recent wiki pages tagged as "meeting". (It currently shows only page page titles. There are probably things we could do to get it to pull in a page summary or some such.) I created a sample meeting page for our last meeting just so the section above would have something to show. Well need to figure out a template for that, and settle on a page name format. Once the bulk of the data is moved over, time can then be spent revising the look and feel (or perhaps making it look less wiki-like), customizing the menus, and making better use of the embedded widgets they offer, like to embed a Google Calendar. Looking at my notes from a prior conversation with Bill, this is the list of pages that need to be converted (most parenthetical comments from Bill): Home page (first draft done) MITDirections JobPostingPolicy IrcRoom BostonPMCalendar MongerLists Damian2006Mementos (with images, historical) BostonPMHistory (historical; Add entry marking end of kwiki) TechMeetingTopics (idea queue) There is another 4 or 5 less important pages that should also be converted at some point. How the calendar gets handled needs discussion. Bill suggested "The Calendar could reasonably get split into history-by-year pages to reduce max size. Or not." My first instinct would be to handle it the same way the "Recent Meetings" section is handled on the home page, using a widget that displays a list of pages matching a tag. This way the calendar page could have either a single widget or perhaps one per year, while each meeting then gets its own page. As for using Wikispaces itself, you can create a new page by: -typing in the URL where you would like it to be; it'll prompt you to create a new page; -create a link to the new page, then click on the link; -Select the "Pages and Files" menu option, and then click the new page button. In the upper right you'll find a Help link on every page, which will take you to extensive documentation on how to use Wikispaces. For the most part, due to the WYSIWYG editor, you won't need it. Occasionally it is helpful to modify the wiki markup text. To access that, click the down arrow next to the save button when editing a page, and choose "Wikitext Editor." -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
