[Imc-birmingham] Calendar events and the newswire

[phunkee]

flatline at aktivix.org wrote:

>Is it not policy to link stuff in the ticker to stuff in the news feed? The MOVE
>tour and indymedia g8 screening events dont seem to link through to anything to
>me...
>
>BA
>  
>
Yep, you're right - we do kinda have a policy about this, and on the uk 
site i believe it's also policy that someone will report on these events 
too. So if you put something up there, we assume you or someone else is 
gonna report on it.
I'm working on putting something up about the two events and i planned 
to have it up yesterday but something 'came up'.

btw these are 'our' events as indymedia and 'some of us' work pretty 
hard writing pieces on them.

I made an point of asking people to post something up in the past to 
encourage them to use the newswire, otherwise they just expect us to 
post their event up on the calendar and they can't be arsed to report on 
anything.

There's an interesting development on the calendar front, yossarian has 
developed a purpose built calendar that all the regions should be able 
to use very soon. This is c 'n p'd from the uk-process list, although i 
can't get the link to work at the moment, but it did look really impressive:

>There is now a version of the new Indy UK calendar system up on the
>net.  It's at:
>
>http://dev.indymedia.org.uk:3000
>
>I've still got to clean up some bugs and finish some features, but I'll
>try to lay out some of the main features here so people can get an
>advance look.  Please keep in mind that I am not a graphic designer and
>the site's layout and stylesheets need quite a bit of work, so if
>anybody can put time into finding us a good HTML/CSS designer that'd be
>pretty great.
>
>If you have feature suggestions or bugs to report, just email me, or
>check out
>http://www.escapegoat.org/projects/imcalendar/report/3
>
>You can file a new bug or feature request by hitting the 'new ticket'
>link in the top navigation bar.
>
>
>EVENT PUBLISHING
>
>
> * you can publish single events
>
> * you can publish multiple events, either by specifying something like
>"repeat this every week until August 21st" or by specifying something
>like "repeat this on the last Wednesday of every month until September
>22nd". 
>
> * you can only repeat events for 6 months from the first event. So, you
>can't flood the calendar for years at a time if you're a spammer.
>
> * you can upload images, video, or files to an event.  This allows for
>things like poster downloads.
>
> * videos are converted on the server and displayed in a Flash player
>(like Youtube).  This is not currently active on the dev server but it
>works fine, I just haven't had time to set the dev server up to encode
>video yet.  You can see an example of what it'll look like on the
>history site, at http://history.indymedia.org.uk/publish/show/52
>
> * I initially couldn't think of any possible use for having videos in
>events but then I thought it might be nice for film trailers.
>
> * you can tag events by place.  So, you can tag an event as "london
>whitechapel" or "nottingham steinton".  This gets us away from only
>categorizing things where we have collectives, and also gets us down to
>the neighbourhood level in bigger cities.
>
> * you can tag events by category. 
>
> * you can add as many photos, files, videos, or links to an event as
>you want, just press the "add photo" link 3 times to add 3 photos.  This
>is convenient but I don't think it's very intuitive at the moment so any
>suggestions on how to make it more obvious to users would be welcome.
>
>
>EVENT RETRIEVAL
>
> * you can view a single event.
> 
> * you can search for events and get back a list
>
> * you can retrieve events by place tag: 
>http://dev.indymedia.org.uk:3000/search/by_place_tag/london
>
> * you can retrieve events by tag:
>http://dev.indymedia.org.uk:3000/search/by_tag/rampart
>
>
>EVENT HIDING
>
>There is currently a bug that I need to fix, but basically:
>
> * you can login to the site by going to
>http://dev.indymedia.org.uk:3000/login
>
> * user: admin
>
> * password: password
>
>(this is just a dev site, i think it's fine to have people able to log
>in and explore)
>
> * once logged in as an admin, you should see some extra controls on
>article display pages.
> 
> ==> At the bottom, you should see a "Hide this event" link.  Clicking
>it brings up the hide form right in the page.  Type your reasons in the
>hide form, and the event will be hidden and the features list gets an
>email automatically (the email is not currently set up to send so that
>we don't all go mental during testing).
>
> ==> Unhiding events works the same way.
>
> ==> I could probably queue the emails and send them in a batch every 4
>hours or something.
>
> ==> I have investigated irc notifications and I think that should be
>do-able.
>
>  ==> If an event was published as a set of multiple events, it's
>possible to hide all of the events at once, which will effectively
>defeat our troll problem.  I need to put in a link for this feature but
>the code for it works well.
>
>
>EVENT EDITING
>
>When logged in as an admin, you will notice that an "edit" link appears
>at the bottom of an event, so you can just go and edit it.
>
>
>RSS
>
>There are currently 3 feeds coming off this thing:
>
>All upcoming events:
>http://dev.indymedia.org.uk:3000/event_feed/upcoming
>
>Upcoming events sharing a tag (e.g. 'Indymedia'):
>http://dev.indymedia.org.uk:3000/event_feed/upcoming_tagged?scope=indymedia
>
>Upcoming events sharing a location tag (e.g. 'whitechapel'):
>http://dev.indymedia.org.uk:3000/event_feed/upcoming_place?scope=whitechapel
>
>The feed subscription links for tagged events need to put in place.
>
>
>ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL
>
> * The site currently has support for multiple levels of admin, so we
>could for instance define different roles - we could have a role that is
>allowed to only hide events, but not edit them.  In theory we can also
>offer any user an account on the system, allowing them to edit their own
>events if they want to do so.  There is an automated email sign-up
>system, currently hidden, that could be activated to achieve this. 
>Startx and I also discussed alternate sign-up methods (not involving an
>email address) which  I could also look into.
>
> * This is potentially quite an important feature as it may allow us to
>build up a bigger pool of admin users.
>
>
>There are quite a few things more to say probably but people might as
>well take a look at the thing now and start giving feedback on what they
>think.  I guess the most important question is, "do people like this
>better than protest.net?".  The next question after that is, "where
>could we host this?". 
>
>I've also done a replacement for the Indy global contact form system
>which I can talk about in another email.
>
>Yoss
>  
>
phunkee