Sounds fine to me. Let me know if there is anything specific you need from me. In the meantime I still have a bunch of sites to relocate over this weekend and even if those all go well (fracking email, joomla, etc), I still probably wouldn't get to boston.pm untill the following weekend at very the earliest.
And if the new location isn't ready by the time I need to move it, that isn't terrible. All of these shared hosting accounts are still on basically the same version of perl, so it will _probably_ just work once restored from backup, with maybe a few config/path updates. But regardless, many thanks for all your help! -Cheers, Sean On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Maria Huang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sean, > > I converted some pages from http://boston.pm.org/kwiki to > http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/ already, but not all of them, like Tom > said before, how calendar gets handled needs discussion, also I had thought > do we need have a section to hold presentation or talk, and encourage > members to sign up to this new site? > > I have been busy recently so I didn't work on it. I hope I can continue > working on it soon but I need comments or suggestions what will be next > step. > > I hope I answered your question. > > Best, > Maria > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Sean Quinlan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just pinging to get an idea if this is moving anywhere. I need to move > > boston.pm.org to a new hosting service. I can migrate everything, but > > it's one less thing to manage if I don't have to keep kwiki running post > > move. :) > > > > Cheers, > > Sean > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
