code tour driver needed
Jan. 4th, 2012 05:12 pm![[staff profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
deniseCode tour, 36 bugs, although you should check against last week's tour to make sure there's no duplication; I think I see some that were already toured last week.
Looking for it by around this time tomorrowish.
Looking for it by around this time tomorrowish.
Volunteer social thread #12
Jan. 4th, 2012 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauammaI haven't done much on Dreamwidth lately, other than squishing the occasional spammer and plotting behind D's back. I hope to change that soon. So what have you guys been up to?
code tour driver wanted
Dec. 8th, 2011 01:52 amdeniseThe code tour's a bit unwieldy (it's over a month of stuff, ugh; sorry for letting it get backed up!) so behind the cut are individual chunks of code tour needed, formatted for copy/paste and filling in, 4 sections of 15-ish bugs each. If you're interested in grabbing any one of the segments, comment to claim!
Looking for these by Friday night's code push, ideally. Any of 'em that aren't done by Friday afternoon, I'll get myself.
( Sections for claiming )
Looking for these by Friday night's code push, ideally. Any of 'em that aren't done by Friday afternoon, I'll get myself.
( Sections for claiming )
Social thread #11
Nov. 26th, 2011 01:41 pmpauammaReason #65765 why I like Dreamwidth: bugs that topic-drift into psycho-linguistics discussions.
What have you guys been up to?
What have you guys been up to?
minions needed: code tour, update
Sep. 22nd, 2011 07:41 amdenise1) Code tour, 31 bugs, looking for it in a day or two.
2) As everyone and their siblings have noticed, I'm extremely behind on the biweekly (*hollow laugh*) news updates. There are many long, boring personal reasons, but the short of it is it's been a really bad few weeks, blah blah it bores even me.
The thought of trying to pull together said update even now is kind of like a giant albatross -- the things take me at least a full day's worth of work and I just don't have it in me right now -- so I would like to crowdsource (the lion's share of) the update. This will take away the major burden of finding things to put in the update, and also the struggle to word things!
If you've done anything on DW in the past six weeks (anything from the last update of 11 Aug to now), write a quick blurb (2-3 paragraphs) about what it is, how you did it, why you did it, why you think it'll be awesome for DW, etc. Even if you didn't complete it -- like, if you're working on a big major bug, etc -- write it up! Introduce yourself in a sentence or two, say what kind of stuff you do for DW, and then describe your project(s), etc. (For maximum interest, include a brief blurb at the end about how readers might get started doing the project themselves.)
I know people might be hesitant to do this (fearing that what they're working on won't be important enough, etc) but it is; I'm thinking of things likerb and hir starting in on dev work, people like rising and nornoriel about making themes, azurelunatic or someone from the antispeam team on spamwhacking, sophie on Dreamhack maintenance, kareila about Karzilla Smash!, etc. No matter how big or small you think the contribution is, somebody will find it interesting.
I'd really love to have 8-10 of these for the update; it will help me tremendously. (You seriously have no idea. It will be major.) And if there's someone who's done any DW work in the past six weeks and doesn't follow this comm, point them here!
Sections can be commented here, or messaged to my inbox. If you're going to write one, comment and let me know that you're planning on doing it. I'd love to have them by Friday night or so. Thanks so much, guys.
2) As everyone and their siblings have noticed, I'm extremely behind on the biweekly (*hollow laugh*) news updates. There are many long, boring personal reasons, but the short of it is it's been a really bad few weeks, blah blah it bores even me.
The thought of trying to pull together said update even now is kind of like a giant albatross -- the things take me at least a full day's worth of work and I just don't have it in me right now -- so I would like to crowdsource (the lion's share of) the update. This will take away the major burden of finding things to put in the update, and also the struggle to word things!
If you've done anything on DW in the past six weeks (anything from the last update of 11 Aug to now), write a quick blurb (2-3 paragraphs) about what it is, how you did it, why you did it, why you think it'll be awesome for DW, etc. Even if you didn't complete it -- like, if you're working on a big major bug, etc -- write it up! Introduce yourself in a sentence or two, say what kind of stuff you do for DW, and then describe your project(s), etc. (For maximum interest, include a brief blurb at the end about how readers might get started doing the project themselves.)
I know people might be hesitant to do this (fearing that what they're working on won't be important enough, etc) but it is; I'm thinking of things like
rb and hir starting in on dev work, people like rising and nornoriel about making themes, azurelunatic or someone from the antispeam team on spamwhacking, sophie on Dreamhack maintenance, kareila about Karzilla Smash!, etc. No matter how big or small you think the contribution is, somebody will find it interesting.I'd really love to have 8-10 of these for the update; it will help me tremendously. (You seriously have no idea. It will be major.) And if there's someone who's done any DW work in the past six weeks and doesn't follow this comm, point them here!
Sections can be commented here, or messaged to my inbox. If you're going to write one, comment and let me know that you're planning on doing it. I'd love to have them by Friday night or so. Thanks so much, guys.
Social thread #10, Software Freedom Day
Sep. 15th, 2011 05:32 pmpauammaSo it's been 6 weeks since the last social thread. What have you guys been up to?
Also, I just found out through http://wordpress.org/news/?p=2058 that this coming Saturday is Software Freedom Day, and that WordCamp Portland 2011 is making space available to developers from other open-source projects. Quoting from the blog entry:
Also, I just found out through http://wordpress.org/news/?p=2058 that this coming Saturday is Software Freedom Day, and that WordCamp Portland 2011 is making space available to developers from other open-source projects. Quoting from the blog entry:
Welcome Free Software Projects! Normally WordCamps are 100% focused on WordPress, but in light of Software Freedom Day, the WC PDX organizers, in conjunction with the WordPress Foundation, would like to extend an invitation to all free software projects to participate in WordCamp Portland. There are a couple of rooms set aside that can be used for unconference sessions and/or hacker rooms for other projects. It would be great to have local representatives from a bunch of projects there — almost a micro version of OS Bridge or OSCON — to maximize the free software love and cross-pollinate ideas. Developers from other projects are also welcome in the WP hackathon room if they’d like to pitch in. Saturday will also feature the Software Freedom Day Happy Hour at the end of sessions. For more information or to get your project involved, contact the event organizers via the WordCamp Portland website or email support at wordcamp dot org.Is anyone in the Portland area planning to attend?
deniseCode tour driver wanted, 38 bugs (might wind up being a few more before you're ready to post, if fu or kareila commits anything else today). Looking for it whenever, this is an "off week" for news and therefore i don't need it for a news update.
fu or kareila commits anything else today). Looking for it whenever, this is an "off week" for news and therefore i don't need it for a news update.azurelunaticI've made one of the periodic & rare public entries in ![[site community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_antispam about the current keysmash + misspelled vague compliment spam campaign, in case anyone else was wondering about those cryptic little comments: http://dw-antispam.dreamwidth.org/4
dw_antispam about the current keysmash + misspelled vague compliment spam campaign, in case anyone else was wondering about those cryptic little comments: http://dw-antispam.dreamwidth.org/4fuI'm looking for volunteers who are willing to dig into the various sites on the list in http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.c
What I need:
* an example of the embed code, preferably a couple so I can compare. You'll probably want to put this into a
* I'm assuming that these are iframe embeds because those are what require whitelisting; embeds which use the <embed> tag don't need any special-casing.
* don't feel like you have to volunteer to get them all. It looks like some of these need an account before you can find the bits that are embeddable, so if you have an account on these services just the one or two would be very helpful!
* absolutely no rush :-)
( list of services remaining to add/check )
What I need:
* an example of the embed code, preferably a couple so I can compare. You'll probably want to put this into a
<textarea rows=20 cols=40>(embed code here)</textarea< so you don't have to worry about escaping the code.* I'm assuming that these are iframe embeds because those are what require whitelisting; embeds which use the <embed> tag don't need any special-casing.
* don't feel like you have to volunteer to get them all. It looks like some of these need an account before you can find the bits that are embeddable, so if you have an account on these services just the one or two would be very helpful!
* absolutely no rush :-)
( list of services remaining to add/check )
pauammaAs some of you know, Afuna and I have been wandering in the UK in late June and early July. I'm still working on a more complete account, but meanwhile I wanted to share a short highlight, viz my first (and mostly successful) attempt to get coffee from Starbucks.
Me: I'd like strongish coffee, about that much *points to empty cup Afuna was holding*, with some milk.
Starbucks: *spouts some highspeed Starbucksese at me*
Me: *pause* I'm sorry, I have no idea what you just said.
Starbucks: *brief pained grimace* "strongish coffee, about that much, with some milk".
So what have y'all been doing while I wasn't paying attention?
Me: I'd like strongish coffee, about that much *points to empty cup Afuna was holding*, with some milk.
Starbucks: *spouts some highspeed Starbucksese at me*
Me: *pause* I'm sorry, I have no idea what you just said.
Starbucks: *brief pained grimace* "strongish coffee, about that much, with some milk".
So what have y'all been doing while I wasn't paying attention?
Writer needed?
Jul. 24th, 2011 06:43 pmfeathertailI'm not sure how to ask this, but I really used to look forward to dw_news updates. If everyone is too busy coding to write them -- those epic updates probably took hours for poor denise! -- would this be an area that a volunteer writer could help with? Because I write professionally, and if I were given a topic or three I could probably turn them into a decent news post, even if it has to be on a monthly or biweekly basis.
dw_news updates. If everyone is too busy coding to write them -- those epic updates probably took hours for poor denise! -- would this be an area that a volunteer writer could help with? Because I write professionally, and if I were given a topic or three I could probably turn them into a decent news post, even if it has to be on a monthly or biweekly basis.pauammaSo it's been a while since the previous one, mostly because the awesome foxfirefey has been... well, awesomely busy. So I thought I'd stand in for her this time. Anyway.
What have youse guys been up to?
What have youse guys been up to?
