I like it! It is (reasonably) simple to add a point to the map (though if we could do city/state vs lat/long that'd be nice). And it's easy for visitors / new folks to get an idea of the member spread. Thanks Jacob!
-Cheri On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Jacob Peddicord <[email protected]> wrote: > http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/ > > I've made a few minor changes to how the site runs and operates, > hopefully for the better: > > * Anyone in the LoCo can now sign in, just hit the Log In link at the > top and you'll be able to sign in with Launchpad. We just check to see > if you're a member of ~ubuntu-us-ohio and you're on your way. > > * Anyone on the Council team (~ubuntu-us-ohio-council) has full > administrative access online. Furthermore, council members (and others > with council approval) may request SSH access to the site; just send > me an email off-list. This was supposed to be the case all along, but > it turns out I messed this up when first setting things up. > > * Some people may have noticed an occasional "503 Service Unavailable" > error. This was due to a bug in our software which has been fixed[1]. > If there are still issues, please ping me on IRC (jacob) or send me an > email. (Technical details: PHP would crash under certain > circumstances, and the web server would fail to restart it. The server > should now start a new copy when it notices that PHP crashed instead > of bailing out.) > > * Regarding the discussion about maps, Cheri suggested adding one to > the site. I went ahead and turned on mapping support, which lets > anyone who signs in set their own location. The full map is here: > http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/map/user > The advantage of this is that someone can't just open the map and > remove all of the points. However, the caveat here is that I can't > just import the map data from SMK's census map. I'm open to using this > or SMK's map, and would love feedback on this. :) > > Let me know if there are any issues. > > Cheers, > Jacob > > > [1] http://lists.octality.com/pipermail/cherokee/2011-May/014802.html > > -- > Jacob Peddicord > http://jacob.peddicord.net/ > https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
