Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread geni
On 10 July 2012 11:24, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: From 20 - 22 July 2012 we are looking forward to hosting the first Edinburgh Photography Workshop. The intent is to improve photography skills amongst attendees, share the tricks of the trade and show how to make the most

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Symonds
It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data about volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on the WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit! Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 9:58 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 10

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread geni
On 11 July 2012 15:04, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data about volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on the WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit!

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Symonds
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions! Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 10:07 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Peel
We have CiviCRM, which includes CiviEvents, set up and running on the WMUK server... Mike On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:14, Richard Symonds wrote: it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Daria Cybulska
Which does not work well as soon as you want to modify the booking form - which is crucial in cases like this one where we want lots of additional information from the attendees unfortunately. Hopefully if we get the upgrade this will be resolved, and I will be more than happy to use CiviEvents

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Symonds
We've yet to get civievents working as we need it, although we used it for the AGM. Once we get the civicrm developers in, they can tweak it so it works properly for us :-) Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 10:17 AM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: We have CiviCRM,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread geni
On 11 July 2012 15:14, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Brian McNeil
On Wed, July 11, 2012 2:58 pm, geni wrote: If interested, the project page for the workshop is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scotland/Edinburgh_Photography_Workshop Whats the justification for using google documents? Not my choice to do so. I believe Peter used

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Brian McNeil
On Wed, July 11, 2012 3:37 pm, geni wrote: On 11 July 2012 15:14, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Andrew Gray
On the format, a wiki is practical for our users, but not for people new to the system - even if they are comfortable editing, using a complicated table is definitely a deterrent. We actively discourage posting contact details, for obvious reasons, which adds an extra hurdle to confirming - as we

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-11 Thread Brian McNeil
Yep, Andrew. Unlucky for you - 13th in the auto-created spreadsheet. ;-) On Wed, July 11, 2012 4:09 pm, Andrew Gray wrote: On the format, a wiki is practical for our users, but not for people new to the system - even if they are comfortable editing, using a complicated table is definitely a

[Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop

2012-07-10 Thread Brian McNeil
From 20 - 22 July 2012 we are looking forward to hosting the first Edinburgh Photography Workshop. The intent is to improve photography skills amongst attendees, share the tricks of the trade and show how to make the most of your photographs throughout Wikimedia's projects, focusing on Wikimedia