Re: Ubuntu-AU Planet Update

2011-03-17 Thread Jared Norris
Stephen, What Michael said is one way to go about it, but it doesn't have to be only "on topic". If you look over the posts that are there now you will see it's not all specifically Ubuntu related. It's meant be a window into the world, work & lives of Ubuntu developers, contributors and users. I'

Re: Ubuntu-AU Planet Update

2011-03-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Stephen Rees-Carter < step...@rees-carter.net> wrote: > HI Jared, > > I know some planets have restrictions where all posts need to be > related to the planet topic (i.e. Ubuntu in this case), or there are > some things you can't talk about on them. > Do we have an

Re: Ubuntu-AU Planet Update

2011-03-17 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
HI Jared, I know some planets have restrictions where all posts need to be related to the planet topic (i.e. Ubuntu in this case), or there are some things you can't talk about on them. Do we have any sort of restrictions on ours? If this question has been done to death, sorry about that.. althou

Ubuntu-AU Planet Update

2011-03-17 Thread Jared Norris
Good morning/afternoon/evening Ubuntu-AU'ers, I've had a request to add someone to the Ubuntu-AU Planet so I thought I'd ask around to see if anyone else wanted adding or changing while we're at it. For those of you who aren't sure what the planet is, quoting directly from http://planet.ubuntu.org

Ubuntu Global Jam - Ubuntu-AU Translation Jam

2011-03-17 Thread Jared Norris
Good morning/afternoon/evening Ubuntu-AU'ers As discussed earlier we have a Global Jam [1] coming up which we as the Australian Loco is going to be involved in. There has been some discussion on a Bug Jam from a few on the team so hopefully this will go ahead as well but I will also be holding a T

Re: Website Renewal

2011-03-17 Thread George Patterson
I'm of the opinion that the RSS calendar feeds should have their events in UTC and the clients should adjust to the user preferences. Mainly because the concept of local time breaks when you try and bridge it over different timezones. You may not know what time offset you are from another location

Re: Website Renewal

2011-03-17 Thread Jared Norris
> Hi Jared, > > I think that solution to getting events on the website would work fine. The > issue of Thunderbird/Lightning showing events from the loco.u.c site at the > wrong time (using UTC instead of converting to local timezones) would still > exist with this method. However, I haven't yet ha

Re: Website Renewal

2011-03-17 Thread Joel Addison
On 17/03/2011 7:56 PM, Jared Norris wrote: The current calendar on the site looks to be using the Event module, which has not had a new release since 2007. The module used by most people now for calendars is a combination of the Date + Calendar modules. This setup is quite different to Event from

Re: Website Renewal

2011-03-17 Thread Jared Norris
>> The current calendar on the site looks to be using the Event module, which >> has not had a new release since 2007. The module used by most people now for >> calendars is a combination of the Date + Calendar modules. This setup is >> quite different to Event from what I can tell (I haven't used