Well. Things have been a bit busy around here recently.
But we must do a Cardiff meeting sometime very soon.
How are we fixed for the week of the 14th? (Friday 18th Perhaps?)
And where? Vulcan? Central Bar?
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dorkomatic
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dorkomatic
I could do the Friday too. So which shall we do? Carl, Steve, anyone?
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quixoticquisling
I’ve replied in original thread!
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foomandoonian
Just an idea
Throwing it out there for discussion. This is the only idea I’ve had (although the logo does have about three separate ideas going on!)
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foomandoonian
Blimey, the image uploader could benefit from some simplification!
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dorkomatic
Wow. I like the sinclair-ish font lots! (and I’m sure Steve would too)
Although I’m less keen on the 633K bit to be honest. (I think the word GEEK ought to be a bit stronger)But strangely I had a similar idea – based on the badge of a Karmann Ghia.
Like this:
http://www.karmannghia.com/Products/p2208.jpgGreat work though & I like the colours too.
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quixoticquisling
foo, the image uploader is the standard WordPress one. It’s just upload then insert into post?
I like the logo! Agree with dorko about 633K bit though.
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foomandoonian
That’s fine, I can handle loosing the 633k – I thought it was amusing, but I realised when I drew it that it was a step too far.
I understand the image uploader Carl, but it takes about twelve steps to upload an image, where it could take three, with one field it didn’t even use and an unclear final step. I get why it’s like that, but uninitiated users on a P2 site expecting Twitter-like simplicity would probably be pretty baffled by it all.
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foomandoonian
Also, I just noticed this appears in the recent posts sidebar as ‘[caption id=”attachment_32″ align=”al…’ – which is kind of dumb.
These moans are aimed at the template, not anyone here.
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quixoticquisling
Your post was a “status update”, it’s new in this version of the P2 theme. It can be changed, it might take a bit of tweaking though.
Cheers, this is all useful feedback!
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Irregular Shed
I approve of the concept wholeheartedly! However, the Sinclair pedant that I am would have a lower case ‘L’ and get the proportions to match the Sinclair brand. Not that I meticulously measured the logo in Photoshop, no sir. (Just about got away with that I think. Oh no, I’m still typing! Arse arse arse. Um, what’s that over there? *escapes*)
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dorkomatic
LOL. Who was that masked man?
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Irregular Shed
Ooh, this is SMART. I’ll get .org.uk to point here as well!
(It did take me a source-code inspection to find out how to log in mind.)
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irregularshed
And by Carl setting it up it’s one less thing for me to do in my negative amount of time =)
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foomandoonian
Excellent stuff! Nice touch having the gathering times up top like that. (If I could, I’d turn on the pretty URL’s though)
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quixoticquisling
I usually turn on readable URLs for permalinks – but at the moment they’re automatically quite short
e.g. http://geekcluster.org/?p=9
which could be an advantage?Not too bothered about SEO benefit and for Twitter it would mean using URL shorteners which are a bit silly…
http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.htmlAny thoughts?
[Testing editing Carl's post]
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foomandoonian
Yeah. There are a few URL shortening WP plugins that let you manage things on your own domain quite nicely, so we could have the best of both. I agree that SEO is not critical here, but why not account for it anyway? It can only be a good thing.
I’m not sure, but I think I found http://yourls.org/ to be the best when I researched it a while ago.
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foomandoonian
Seems I can edit anyone’s posts here. Not necessarily a bad thing, but probably not ideal.
I really like this WP/P2 approach. It’s simple, flexible, demands very little and allows for a lot. We can be unstructured and random, but still organise it all.
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quixoticquisling
Yes, I made you an editor.
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dorkomatic
It’s pretty good. I like it. (even if I haven’t figured out how to upload an avatar/icon yet)
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dorkomatic
I think I might put a post up about ‘how it all began’ and our history so far.
We might also want a post or two listing the things we’ve talked about. (Not ‘minutes’ exactly, but jus a list of subjects we’ve covered.)
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foomandoonian
That sounds like an about page Howard – maybe that would be better as a page rather than a blog post.
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dorkomatic
I guess so. Although I did mean each of those things as a separate post. Maybe the ‘how it all started’ bit should be a separate ‘about page’.
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quixoticquisling
dorkomatic, if it’s a key/milestone blog post we can put a permanent link to it from a page or the sidebar.
I like minutes, your memory’s really good!
foo, we could have an About page too.
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dorkomatic
I’ve added the original email (more or less) as an extra page (About Geek Cluster) – but I’ll probably edit it somewhat to make it slightly more concise.
The other posts: summaries of meetings and future ideas might be best as milestone posts maybe?
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Irregular Shed 12:56 PM on 9 June 2010 Permalink
Central Bar on a Friday night… are you insane? =)
I’d prefer to leave it til the end of the month, if that’s okay. Got a lot of things on my plate right now.
quixoticquisling 1:02 PM on 9 June 2010 Permalink
I could do Fri 18th, maybe a social at the Romilly beer garden in Canton? (OK it’s my local. Better than Wetherspoons on a Friday though.) I think a minimum of 2 of us is enough, then if anyone else can make it even better?
I can’t do end of the month – nor any of July! But have fun if you meet up then.
dorkomatic 1:10 PM on 9 June 2010 Permalink
Insane? Quite possibly. Other suggestions grateful received.
18th or end of month? Or some other time?
I suppose I could do both (subject to Mrs Dorkomatic’s approval)
Anyone else care to throw their hat into the ring? (What hat? What ring?)
dorkomatic 11:59 AM on 24 June 2010 Permalink
I guess the student population will be dwindling shortly.. When and where shall we meet? #geekcluster (It’s a shame not to have Carl with us; but I’m sure we’ll cope – he’ll be off to Glastonbury etc…) So when is a good time for you all?