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Nobody made it except me & Chris. It was very productive meeting. We decided to scrap funding for everything except the website, which needs new colors. And to put biometric locks on everything.

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reminder that this meeting is tonight!

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yep, we should cover volunteering as well. does anyone object to that?

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Ok, so I forgot to hold the last BTS meeting. No matter. The next one will be on Thursday 15th April at 8pm.

The current remit of the behind the scenes group includes: internet, computers, technology, shop, grants, and general admin/paperwork.

Be there or don't be square.

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cool, jane is always right!

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its pretty standard that links that leave a site open in a new page not true! Most other sites do this (guardian, ) they shouldn't! i doubt my above points change your opinion! correct! How does the site look/behave on an iPhone, by the way? fine on iPhone. Mobile safari has up to 8 pages/tabs (tre...

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Hi. I clicked on forest records from the forest homepage and it opened in a new window. Just wanted to point out that this is bad practice in web design. If you're going to open a new window for someone you should have a damn good reason. Otherwise, you should let them keep things in the same window...

neil · Re: Web meet-o-rama Fri 19 Mar 2010 looking nice on safari

looking nice on safari

neil · Re: Web meet-o-rama Fri 19 Mar 2010 Nice work. looks a lot better now!

Nice work. looks a lot better now!

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This is how it looks in Safari 4.0.4... Weird!

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While I'm reluctant to join the pro-Tumblr movement, I have to say that I think pretty much all Jane's & Chris's points about the look & feel of the site are valid. I also have to agree with Chris's views about the urgency of the situation, taking into account what he's trying to do and how the site...

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I suggest we all get together in a meeting, which will need a good facilitator who is not firmly in either camp, and use the options from the poll as a starting point to come to a consensus. We don't need to be this serious about it. It's a website! A simple compromise is required. Let's give Joach...

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For your enjoyment....
Blue screen of death top 10

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Maybe skeletons for the main front page, and something like Gareth's for the listing & info link....?

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I like! A bit arcane, maybe, for anyone who isn't web-savvy... you might consider making the labels visible all the time... but that could take away some of its charm. Should def increase the size of the hover area for theatre, as that's easy to miss.

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Drupal is a good system since it offers a lot of options. However, it's very technical and it requires a lot of time from Milk to get it to do things. This could be seen as a drawback, but if Milk's happy to put the effort in then maybe it's no problem. The real problem is that Milk is being left to...

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Good point about the shop. We're still up for having some action there if someone wants to do it. Likewise the grants. They could come back, but someone would need to take it on as a project. And we're struggling a bit money-wise, so maybe now isn't the time. The activities that are getting complete...

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Let's go for Thursday at 7. We can use another room.

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How about next Thursday night then?

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Yes, we should try to have a BTS meeting. But when? Next Weds night?

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I don't know whether it's better to stick to the traditional time, or just schedule something that people can make it to. My feeling is that, rather than have an under-attended and ultimately fruitless BTS meeting, it would be better to have a tech crew meeting sometime that's convenient for all. Ei...

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There's nothing like a good forestry organization!

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Doodle poll:
http://www.doodle.com/eerkreieir7utns6

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.... is due for next Thursday at 8. Just wondering if that's a good time for peoples?

Lynne? Milk? Mike?

Anyone else?

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Where is your picture?

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Also, continous non-stop music isn't always neccesary - sometimes music is more appreciated when it comes between spells of silence/cafe ambience... I agree about this. However, people definitely prefer music to no music simply because it makes it a lot easier to have private conversation. But that...

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Cool, nice.

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While it might be cool to have a proper olde-worlde jukebox in the cafe, I agree that having to pay for the music would suck. Also it seems this would be very limiting to the amount of music we could share. And CDs are likely to skip & jump and make all sorts of offensive noises. Old-fashioned, and ...

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one idea might be to check whether the addon module providing this functionality is applied correctly currently. possibly just reinstalling it afresh might fix things. I did this already. Feel free to do again, but it takes quite a bit of time! I just noticed that the mod has been updated to v.1.0....

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I've got one for you. It is very low spec. It's got 2x128MB of PC100 RAM. If anyone can come up with a couple of 256s, that'd be great.

I've got a keyboard & mouse for you but no monitor. Get one easily off Freecycle if you need it.

Is it to run Linux or Windows?

When do you want it dropped off?

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Mike! Knowing what you know about the workings of this here thing, any chance you can fix it to display "You have no unread posts" instead of "View unread posts" when you have no unread posts. Would be worth doing if it's an easy hack?

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How good does it need to be?

I can probably help if a low spec is sufficient.

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That's quite a good idea.

My first thought was what if someone mistypes and accidentally logs on as someone else? But this wouldn't happen with random groups of 3 words.

My second thought is what if someone starts randomly typing in groups of 3 words?

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I see it too. Nice work Mike!

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There is loads in Oxfam shop near Tesco for 10p each, but no teaspoons as I bought them all.

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Thanks. Now the refresh is done, all changes are applied. The 'view new posts' link is gone. It was confusing. But it could be brought back if needed. I was hoping the "view unread posts" button would say "you have no unread posts" when you have no unread posts, but that ain't happening. Oh well. At...

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Try clicking on the little yellow icon next to the topic title in the unread posts list. It will take you straight to the latest unread post in that thread. I know it's a nuisance, but its the best we can do for now xx

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Partly sorted. I went through all the required code changes for the mod. Some were present, some weren't. I added in the missing bits and also added in the comments that go next to the modded code. This still needs to be done: Go into the ACP styles section and click 'refresh' (and confirm) for pros...

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Will the cafe be open as normal on Friday evening? I'm signed up for 5-10.

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sounds good

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Just remembered - I need to check the specs on garish blue. If got upwards of 400MHz & 256MB ram it might be able to take Fedora. If less than that, we could try non-graphic Fedora, but that would be of questionable usefulness...

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This is the alteration you had to apply to the unread posts mod which would take you to the first new post in the changed thread: OPEN search.php FIND 'U_VIEW_TOPIC' => $view_topic_url, REPLACE WITH 'U_VIEW_TOPIC' => ($search_id == 'unread') ? $view_topic_url . '&view=unread#unread' : $view_topic_ur...

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When are you up for this? I could make it along on a Monday or Friday, or an evening sometime (not Tuesdays).

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Chombee speaks wisdom. These Macs are G3s. You might be able to get Linux to run on them, but it would be a hassle and they would run slower. The fastest thing you can run on the lovely pink one is Tiger (which it has already). Unfortunately, the other one (garish blue) won't run Tiger. It would run...

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Sorry for missing the meeting. I completely forgot!

The main point I wanted to raise was about phone lines and broadband. I didn't get to research them until this morning but the results are here:
http://www.theforest.org.uk/bb/viewtopi ... =99&t=7188

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The pink one is lovely

I was thinking of taking away the G4 PowerMac. No one is using it and it will only get fucked/RAMraided etc. The keyboard has already been swiped. It'll still be available if it's needed, but I'll take it home for safe keeping.

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Shall we go for 7?

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To get the Cave key people should hand in their card There is the problem of people coming to the kitchen and saying "I've forgotten my card... please give me the key... I have booked the cave." This is shit for kitchen staff. It wastes their time listening to the person and they don't know whether...

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Good points! I've been thinking for a while that Behind the Scenes meets would
be better spent fixing computers & the web instead of just talking about it.

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mulled wine = good!

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