Archive for March, 2007

2007/03/29 Proposed Agenda

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j - March 29, 2007 @ 2:59 pm · Meetings

A special meeting at 6 pm will address what’s happening with the Manila server, its scheduled shutdown in about two weeks, and how people can move their content off before Wednesday, April 11.

Agenda

Upcoming events of interest:

  • See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.

  • Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

  • 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
  • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just dinner, contradancing?
  • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
  • Second Life - a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
  • Second Life - a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
  • Adam and something about maps
  • Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
  • Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
  • For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
  • Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
  • What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
  • Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j, can you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
  • Another session on podcasting - Adam Weiss
  • Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
  • A session on video - get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
  • David Temez - video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
  • Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) - Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
  • OpenID - why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begby to lead or help us find people)
  • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station
  • Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
  • What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
  • you? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
  • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!

Eat:

  • This week:

During the meeting, participate via:

URGENT: Migrate Off Manila *NOW*

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j - March 26, 2007 @ 5:31 pm · Helps and How tos

Because of major server issues, it is imperative that anyone who has content on the Manila server hosted by Harvard get whatever content they would like in the next two weeks. The server administrators need to shut the server down permanently.

Information about migrating from the Manila server to the WordPress server is available in the help documentation.

Before blog group this week, there will be a special meeting from 6 to 7 pm dealing with migrating blogs from Manila to WordPress and getting content off the Manila server. j will demonstrate how to migrate a weblog.

If you plan to try to migrate your Manila weblog to the WordPress server during the demo, you will need to bring a computer with working wireless capabilities, remember at least one administrator username and password to the Manila weblog, and have access to the administrator e-mail account.

If you would like to backup your weblog before migration using Wget or Manila’s backup capabilities, you should probably do that before the meeting. Wget takes a long time, but provides a good backup in HTML. The Manila backup is rather fast, but it produces a file only another Manila server administrator can work with.

The server administrators hope people will move their content by Monday, April 9 Wednesday, April 11. Because of the urgency of the situation, everyone needs to act fast. Your cooperation and understanding is appreciated.

Addendum 3/28: The server administrators posted a note about the need for migration. They adjusted the date by two days. People now have until April 11 to get their content off Manila.

Also, Kim posted some Python scripts and instructions for using them to backup a Manila blog into HTML files on j’s scratchpad. j will discuss these scripts and how to use them at the meeting Thursday night.

Addendum 3/29: I ran the script to backup this weblog last night. It has 650 blog posts on it. It took approximately 2 hours to run. However, I realized this morning the script misses a major section of the weblog: the Stories. If I have time today, I will try to fidget with the script to get that download working.

2007/03/15 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - March 15, 2007 @ 12:04 am · Meetings

Agenda

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

  • 3/22: NO MEETING as room use/coordinator schedule conflict

  • 3/29: Regina O’Brien of Boston NOW on their new user-fed online-and-offline free daily paper. Boston Globe article on the paper.
  • 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
  • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just-dinner?
  • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
  • Second Life - a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
  • Second Life - a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
  • Adam and something about maps
  • Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
  • Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
  • For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
  • Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
  • What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
  • Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j, can you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
  • Another session on podcasting - Adam Weiss
  • Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
  • A session on video - get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
  • David Temez - video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
  • Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) - Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
  • OpenID - why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begby to lead or help us find people)
  • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station
  • Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
  • What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
  • you? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
  • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!

Eat:

  • This week:

During the meeting, participate via:

2007/03/08 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - March 8, 2007 @ 2:07 pm · Meetings

Agenda

  • Introductions

  • This is the last non-special-guest meeting for a little while, so if you’ve got interesting questions to ask the group, now is the best time.
  • Should we hold a “Blogging Newbie Night” and publicize it widely? The idea would be to provide a resource to the folks who come to us wanting to learn about blogging, in one night rather than spread out randomly at the ends of other sessions. We could give a presentation about what blogs are and a quick mini-tour of some of what the blogosphere has to offer/the kinds of blogs a person could choose to have. We could quickly discuss podcasts, video blogs, etc. And then we could break out into small groups taking one-on-one with the newbies. Is this a good idea? Would people be willing to commit to something like this if we decide to do it? — We think YES this is a good idea.
  • Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

  • 3/15: Ted Demopoulos, who wrote “What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere”. Let’s ask him to tell us about writing it, the bloggers he interviewed, etc.

  • 3/22: NO MEETING as room use/coordinator schedule conflict
  • 3/29: Regina O’Brien of Boston NOW on their new user-fed online-and-offline free daily paper. Boston Globe article on the paper.
  • 4/5, 4/12, 4/26: On deck to schedule, currently open. Suggest something!
  • 4/19: We can’t use Berkman conf room. Move, cancel, just-dinner?
  • Sometime: Pushkar Phatak on a blog project he’s working on
  • Second Life - a guided tour + how-to session. Mike Walsh is coordinating for April.
  • Second Life - a debate on it. Good? Bad? Both?
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Ben Sheldon and something about maps
  • Adam and something about maps
  • Tracy Rolling of Platial on maps (notice a pattern here)
  • Something on digital natives? Get Erin Mishkin in.
  • For parents: what *are* your kids doing on the social web? Get a few students to lead it.
  • Where are kids going, now that they’re moving away from MySpace?
  • What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement?
  • Skype: How does it work? Why use it? What are the best clients? j, can you lead something on this and/or suggest someone?
  • Another session on podcasting - Adam Weiss
  • Get Rhod Sharpe (BBC journalist) to repeat his “how to use a microphone” etc. that he did a couple years ago
  • A session on video - get Steve Garfield in. What’s changed since the last session we had ages ago?
  • David Temez - video producer at MIT AMPS, coleader of Boston Media Makers, does a lot of other neat stuff
  • Other local placeblogs (ask Lisa to host?) - Universal Hub, Boston Globe bloggers like Brainiac, Bostonist, Davis Square LJ mods, etc.
  • OpenID - why you should use it, why you should develop with it (ask Rod Begby to lead or help us find people)
  • Someone who can teach us about streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station
  • Do we know people who are wizards at design, and UI? Who can teach us about principles of design, show us what they did to learn as a beginner?
  • What are the latest tools for blogging etc.? Latest mashups and widgets? How has it changed in the past year or so?
  • you? (It doesn’t have to be about maps.)
  • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!

Eat:

  • This week:

During the meeting, participate via:

2007/03/01 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - March 1, 2007 @ 4:23 pm · Meetings

Agenda

  • Introductions

  • Continuing conversations begun last week with Andy and Steve?
  • Debriefing Beyond Broadcast?
  • Anything else

Upcoming events of interest:

Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:

Eat:

  • Last week: Dave was here, we went to the Bombay Club for old time’s sake.

During the meeting, participate via:

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