Thanks for your detailed information, and this can give me a jump start, I will take a close look soon.
Maria Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
