Hi Sean, I am glad I can help a little, because I consider me a part of kiwi (Just kiding, kiwiki) group or new wikispaces for Boston.pm, and I should thank you guys for creating such a wonderful community!
Cheers, Maria On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Sean Quinlan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
