[Baypiggies] update the meeting description please?

[Warren Stringer]

First off, congratulations! This is so much better, it looks like something
out of the 21st Century  -- woof! ;-)

My vote is to put the most popular info the fewest clicks away. That would
mean putting the current meeting on the home page, above the meeting
instructions. 

Other tweaks, but not a show stopper:

It appears that calendar doesn't do anything, so it is a distraction -- I'd
get rid of it. Moreover, calendar placement on the Meeting Archive section
is broken, in Firefox.

Likewise for the News and Events tabs: they do nothing; a distraction that
can be discarded. Less is more.

Main page <h1> fontsize could be knocked back to size of <h2> as
"portal-logo" already announces that we are the "Bay Area Python Interest
Group". This would leave more room for both the current month's announcement
and general information about when the group meets.  

Green Font is slightly washed out and hard to read ... could be slightly
darker. Most noticeable in the Archives section with green <h2> headers.

What else?

Registration process is easy. 
Looks great on my iPhone. 
Cool beans!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Snow [mailto:donnamsnow at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:15 PM
> To: Warren Stringer
> Cc: Asheesh Laroia; Python
> Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] update the meeting description please?
> 
> We have a Plone site.. ready and waiting..
> http://www.baypiggies.net/new/plone
> 
> I moved tony's reviews over this past weekend.. and moved all the
> meeting notes to Meeting Archives
> 
> We could move over now if we wanted..
> 
> The only question I have is where do we want to list the current
> meeting? On the homepage like we do now..or in an events portlet on
> the right side.. that they can click on for more information...
> 
> Donna
> 
> On 8/7/07, Warren Stringer <warren at muse.com> wrote:
> > -1 on moinmoin, as per an earlier email on its infuriating lack of
> > interaction design.
> >
> > As for pwyky, I can't try it out as the link in
> http://infomesh.net/pwyky/
> > to http://sbp.f2o.org/pwyky/ yields: '...The requested URL /pwyky/ was
> not
> > found on this server...'
> >
> > Regardless of what dogfood is used, I still think the best dogbowl is
> > Meetup.com ... howl if you like. In my case, I went looking for the
> Python
> > group from within Meetup, first. Some groups redirect the signup process
> > from Meetup.com to their own service. So, Baypiggies *could* have it
> both
> > ways.
> >
> > \~/
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: baypiggies-bounces at python.org [mailto:baypiggies-
> bounces at python.org]
> > > On Behalf Of Asheesh Laroia
> > > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:09 PM
> > > To: baypiggies at python.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] update the meeting description please?
> > >
> > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Keith Dart ♂ wrote:
> > >
> > > > But MediaWiki is not implemented in Python... I think we should "eat
> > > > our own dogfood". :-)
> > >
> > > That's a very good point.  Maybe I'll just try setting up e.g.
> > > http://infomesh.net/pwyky/ (or maybe MoinMoin despite having spent the
> > > past 3-4 years running away from it) sometime soonish on my sf-lug.com
> > > account and demo it to this list.
> > >
> > > But until then, someone should update the real website! (-:
> > >
> > > -- Asheesh.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really
> > > know what we are doing.
> > >               -- E. Dijkstra
> >
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