Ubuntu Hour San Francisco & SF Bay Area [L]UG list(s)
First of all: Ubuntu Hour San Francisco Does someone want to do a (better) cleanup of the relevant web pages, etc.? Most notably: Many of the pages imply this meeting happens every month. Now, having date/time/location pre-arranged for it 'n all is good, but ... with those meetings - especially in more recent years - much more commonly not actually happening than happening, the relevant web page(s). It's also good (and as was commonly done) *when* the meetings actually happened, to properly enter it as a Ubuntu event - and notably as an Ubuntu Hour event, and as a ubuntu-us-ca LoCo event - so it then automagically shows in all the right places for things that process and show those calendar events and specific categories thereof (some folks 'n things specifically watch for / display such). Also helps, likewise, to have the location on such on correct continent, country, state, ... again so it's properly found where it ought be (and not, e.g., event lacking continent, or global). To the extent feasible (and notably not excluding the Ubuntu event calendaring thingy stuff), there really ought be *one* authoritative place that says whether the meeting is happening - or at least that one can quickly and easily check if it's actually been scheduled 'n such. Heck, maybe it could even be coded to benefit the whole Ubuntu-US-CA team (e.g. if it's scheduled as both a Ubuntu-US-CA LoCo event, and an Ubuntu Hour event, have a persistent web page that automagically shows it on there if it's upcoming within say, month to 2 month's time). Anyway, single authoritative source often works better, lest there be conflicting information from multiple sources and questions as to which is authoritative. And sites / web pages? There isn't a Ubuntu Hour San Francisco web page ... though there are page*s* with such on it, so checking generally involves looking thorough many sources to try and determine definitively what the situation currently is regarding upcoming meeting actually scheduled or not. It would seem probably most logical primary place would be: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UbuntuHours And ... it even supports anchor tags ..., e.g.: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UbuntuHours#line-20 But, alas, that is not only not user-friendly anchor, but also not persistent for the relevant data (e.g. someone edits it, and the stuff at #line-20 is no longer the SF stuff). I mean, trying to determine definitively the current status, generally involves checking all of: http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california/ http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UbuntuHours So, among other things, not having a persistent authoritative URL makes it much less user-friendly - and also less likely to get the information reasonably and clearly propagated. It also doesn't help that the Canonical/Ubuntu calendaring stuff doesn't (at least last I checked) have any way to schedule recurring events - which of course means for the event to be there, someone has to put it in there ... every ... single ... time. Someone want to code up something that could handle automatic recurring meetings being scheduled? Anyway, ideally might be something like a specific page, or persistent anchor on a specific page, and that could say something rough like ... when they occur, they're scheduled on the Nth Xday of the month, starting at <time> and typically at (or near) ... and here are any upcoming ones that are scheduled <automagically fills in any that match from the Ubuntu events (upcoming && Ubuntu Hours && ubuntu-us-ca LoCo && San Francisco && North America) ... and that last bit so that if someone didn't do the event right, it wouldn't match the filter - so they'd have more of a fighting chance to notice, catch, and correct that>. And secondly: SF Bay Area [L]UG list(s) There's this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UserGroupContacts/Groups#SF (Hey, at least it has a persistent anchor tag!) Which is, unfortunately woefully out-of-date (and incomplete), and in it's present form will probably almost always be. Rather than try to maintain it as such (and have yet another different incomplete out-of-date list of such on The Internet), perhaps instead link to some better maintained more complete lists/resources, e.g.: http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ http://www.lugod.org/calendar/ http://www.svlug.org/farm.php#other-local https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UserGroupContacts/Groups#SF https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=caj9iea2ol69b7n2uqdek4ocso%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles https://goo.gl/b9WY5k Might not look quite as "pretty" for the formatting on the page ... but I'd vote for functionality and accuracy over "pretty". Anyway, Ubuntu ... not my baby. Maybe some 'o y'all might want to take a crack at addressing and cleaning those up? I might be able to do some too, but it's very low on the priorities on my todo list (5921 lines long and growing - yes, it will never all get done - at least not by me). -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
