Forest BB

milk

menu items; i was humming and hawing about these. i would like simple yet representative.

'Organisation' on the Workshops image above would contain info on WGs, when the next meets are, BB links, etc.

but then again, this could be merged with the Volunteer/Get Involved page?

milk

issues; splash - doesn't have expanded facilities links (Cave, Darkroom, Screen-printing, Tool+Metal Workshop, Action Room.. that is it, yes? actually, studio balconies also, but do these need a prominent link? i don't think so) facilities - the way i've drawn it there is ugly. if each facility is l...

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some better images

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wf_facilities.png

wf_workshops.png

wf_events.png

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wf_ontology.png

milk

a very quick and rough sketch. i'll work on better/clearer ones in the next couple of days, thought i'd post this to show for now. the sketch of the splash page is wrong in that i missed out the the main menu links, with which the dynamic info boxes would probably be placed best in another location....

milk

a basic draft infovis of Forest organisation.

this was drawn whilst away from the net. i've printed out the Volly Guide to check later, but i thought i'd also ask folk here; what is wrong?

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milk

new window links, eek! from the same site, #1 & #2.

n.b. one can set firefox to force new window links to load as new tabs if they'd so like.

milk

anyone else want to come along and help provide input on how the website should work? vote now!

i worked on some layouts for both the splash and other pages while away on Arran this weekend just past.

milk

great idea on the programme listing being descriptive! from http://edinburgh.thingsandstuff.org, some groups you could contact; http://www.futureshorts.com/htmlViewer.php?id=44 - http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=8521299156 http://emps.spheredev.org/ - http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=25445944368 h...

milk

a meeting so we can come to a final decision on the page elements, features and information architecture of the revamped website. these are the bits that will be themed in some manner. http://www.doodle.com/g4bp83qcnt9thq8p what is a wireframe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website_wireframe or if th...

milk

*imagines flaming ball bearings flying around and down the stairwell of The Forest*

milk

people talkin about Forest on twitter; http://twitter.com/#search?q=the%20forest%20edinburgh http://twitter.com/#search?q=forest%20cafe%20edinburgh i wish i had the time to interact with such folk via the foresttweets account. would anyone be interested in this? more than one person could get involv...

milk

looking good, though a higher resolution version would be better.

milk

both sound good ideas, albeit different - not that that's an issue in itself. different splash themes could have different emphasis on what is linked to, although it would be good to make obvious what groups people can get involved with.

milk

Lets discuss this! I've been chatting with Joachim and our thoughts for a compromise solution that includes both static and dynamic content. We're thinking that a mural style layout with large graphical links to the sister sites (the graphics being easily changeable by non-techies), plus a couple of...

milk

put this in the Action Room subforum. i don't think this that sensitive and issue, and it's worth others knowing about such things. thanks for getting it organised though!

you mention there is still an issue from the office - you're unable to print from all of the machines, but you can get net fine?

milk

ooh, sounds ratha interesting. clashes with my Beltane group though, doh. i'd so like to spraff about my pipedream and related..

milk

soz for fucking up your post nix, but do you mean http://www.theforest.org.uk/system/file ... orplan.gif or no?

milk

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engine ... uthor=milk

click on 'Forest BB' to add the capability to search this forum to your browser's own search box.

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fekin a!

milk

got a website you like the layout and/or features of? please post it here and say what you like about the site!

* http://www.whatisinnovation.com/ - interesting upfront method of asking for new content, i.e., on the landing page. (uses Drupal)

milk

i'm on that, just grabbing some stuff from the currently site first. the change will take several hours to propagate through the dns system before it changes what people see when they go to theforest.org.uk.

milk

i spoke with gareth yesterday evening - he noted that clicking on the arrow graphic does actually download the file. i was thinking the same way as jane, i.e., that clicking the filename should download the file.....

milk

well, the BB is better than nowt. it's certainly better than people having to access the web space via ftp, download text files, edit them, reupload, organise, avoid file change conflicts, etc - you get the point - to communicate

milk

heh, this is why we have real life meetings

srsly; please do come to the meet tomorrow - it would be great to get a perspective from an admin

milk

what kind of details are you referring to? i mean, as has been said, it's a complicated topic in that there are various concepts to link together when you're trying to talk about things in a holistic sense, but i think these things need to be said so that we all understand each other's perspective. ...

milk

the download page broke somewhat after pogo cleared up the files on the webserver. the links in the page that come up are inforrect - if you add /logos/ to the url linked to for items in the logos folder, i.e., http://theforest.org.uk/download/logos/forest.svg, you can grab them. a proper collection...

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In the meantime, I would like to have a good blog right now with tumblr. i'd like to discuss what features or way of doing things, specifically and exactly, makes tumbr better than the current blog within drupal. i know a lot has been said before in various threads, but this needs to be distilled d...

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funnily enough, the Drupal page to create news content is actually less cluttered and confusing than the WordPress dashboard, though the aim is to make it even less cluttered, to the level of tumblr, removing any extranious sections that don't apply to the lay content poster.

milk

> Could we not have tumblr handling the forest blog at forest.org.uk/blog, give it to Chris and Jane or whoever to curate, at other forest.org.uk URLs you could have other pages powered by drupal Sorry, but that's ridiculous. Why give ourselves two sites to admin instead of one? we can make Drupal ...

milk

there was a hack patch that i tried which was meant to not see an event item as a 2 day thing unless the time crossed 5am on the second date. i didn't get it to work in the end... n.b. this was only an issue during the fringe when we had events finishing at 1am, though these will return again in a f...

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done: * Event calendar - get exposed filters for Location and Type on 'event_calendar' working (worth just setting up a separate view to simplify things?)

milk

thankin thee!

milk

no worries! Events and Promo is where we get meta about events and shit.

milk

someone moved this to 'Events', but i've moved it again to 'Events and Promo' where the discussion about the organisation of events and their promotion should happen.

milk

fair dos. i was planning on having it later rather than sooner so joachim and i could focus on sorting out some of the existing bugs, rather than new stuff.

milk

*shrugs*

i don't rememer any change.. possibly we should enable it? but i'd be for turning it off again the second some twat uses it to change what they've said half-way through a debate to make another look bad. i'd like to think that wouldn't happen, but you do get all sorts on the BB..

milk

i'll bring cake too!xx

milk

I too was wondering why milk hadn't responded when he is active on the bb. i don't have the internet at home and have only been in The Forest a couple of times each week for the last month or so. i'm currently suffereing by using shoddy time-restricted library computers to communicate and do everyt...

milk

no worries, Friday from 2pm works for me. can anyone who's in The Forest/has mobile credit say if the Action Room is available then (as this is more than just two folk discussing and changing things at the same time)? and if not, book it? thanks. ...highly argumentative meetings. Trust me, this is g...

milk

chris - can i ask why this was posted in the FWG forum?

what do people say to moving this to the Events and Promotion forum?

milk

as was mentioned briefly the other day, part of the plan for the Drupal site will be to make it output all the event information in a format that can be copied and pasted for the printed programme. maybe this could work for a poster also, though that would probably require a bit more graphic design ...

milk

All interested parties are invited to come discuss design possibilities and plan the roadmap for the Forest's website. It would have been in a forthnight, but I'm on Arran for that weekend.

milk

* Anon event item submissions for review by the Events and Promo coordinator - sooner rather than later would be good now as the Programme isn't getting posted as news
* Random image for the top of the front page

* Clear out unused modules

milk

joachim and I did somethings, including; * added an image field to the News content type for easy addition of graphics, a la tumblr * trimmed down the primary links to internal links * added an 'external site' content type with a linked image field - these power a view block display that replaces th...

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last time i checked, there are two or three boxes in the crafty room containing mugs (and related?). anyone know if these ours to use?

milk

Fab, thanks to all for the ideas and Gaz for the mockup idea for the front page - these are defo worth it for figuring out where folk are coming from with their ideas for the site layout and theme. Myself, Chris and Joachim, a Forest Choir member who does Drupal development for his day job, met up o...

milk

whats the new design you have in mind? a lighter colour. graphical blocks, larger than the ones that were added 6 months ago, to the front page for the various areas of the Forest (like wot Jane linked to). moving the upcoming event information to the event calendar page and reformatting it so ther...

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i do not have confidence in the current site or in bringing a new team to move things forward. gie me a month or so and i'll get the Drupal site changed to iron out imperfections. it's not like the site hasn't changed in the last two years after suggestions, but i apologise for taking so long to ge...

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A simple blog will scale perfectly well, no matter how many posts that you add it will still remain a simple blog. the Drupal site does have a simple blog - that's what the left hand side of the main page is. A more powerful site like Drupal, on the other hand, does not scale well for an organisati...

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Instead of Sunday, nix would like to shift it to Saturday due to his schedule. would this work for others? Community Action, Crafty Room, Action Room, Environment & Garden, Workshops This group plans community actions, organises free workshops, plans dramatic performances, works to protect the envir...

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