Forest BB

chombee

What's the situation Mike? Stevie and I tried to have a look today. Above the kitchen seems to be a router and a switch but no modem. In the spare router box is a modem and a router and a couple of power supplies, but seemingly not the right power supply for the modem (wrong voltage). In the office ...

chombee

If more than one router is available, keep the other(s) somewhere safe (in the office) as spares for when the next time this happens.

chombee

Surely forest can buy a new router?

chombee

Thanks Mike. It's quite important to get this sorted. Birgit is having to enter events into tumblr in the cafe and is hardly ever able to actually logon (not helped by tumblr itself being unreliable as well). Also I keep meeting with people in the cafe to talk about web stuff and finding we can't br...

chombee

Thanks Mike.

By the way, although I do like sarcastic jokes and pretty pictures, I actually think these plain menus look very nice!

chombee

Update the web page. Can you update the PDF link Swithun?

Unfortunately the tool I used to convert the PDF to PNG image files for the web page has changed the fonts a bit. Might try again later from my computer at work, which didn't seem to do that.

chombee

Hey, these should go on the forest website as well? You can email them to Birgit at events@theforest.org.uk

chombee

Can someone upload the menu PDF to theforest.org.uk server so I can link to it on cafe page? Thanks

chombee

Putting this on the website now. Felafel should be falafel?

chombee

Thanks to Swithun, Duncan and Mike it's now blog.theforest.org.uk.

theforest.org.uk and forestcafe.tumblr.com redirect to it. We couldn't get it showing up directly at theforest.org.uk without breaking our @theforest.org.uk email addresses.

chombee

It's good to know about Gelato for the future, I mean, it's good to know that the option exists, but I imagine it would be quite a big job to move from tumblr to gelato and I wouldn't have time to work on it anytime soon. I've put in a lot of time on the website over the last month and am planning t...

chombee

The banner logo is actually just a temporary placeholder, something better is in the works. bb link is on the contact page. Swithun is looking into using theforest.org.uk instead of forestcafe.tumblr.com. I agree that it sucks, but I'm not sure if it's going to be possible or not. Mike has looked in...

chombee

Just went live. Take a look, and donate or buy something for the Save The Forest campaign! We are still waiting for a few pieces of art and some writing and editing to come in, these will be added to the site soon. Let us know if you find any mistakes: email website@theforest.org.uk. If you would li...

chombee

Sounds like a good place to start

chombee

Hey, I have my hands full with the website so if anyone could do this research for me that would be great! We really need an online storage space to keep a lot of Forest files: source files for logos and posters, photos, PDFs like the Press Pack. I'm thinking about the kind of stuff that is useful f...

chombee

That Medina post is generally incoherent!

chombee

Thanks Neil. I've integrated that into the Info & Donations page and also edited the rest of the page. I think it's looking alright now, except that it needs a couple of good images to break up the text:

http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/savetheforest

The How You Can Help page still needs fixing up.

chombee

Fixed the date, thanks

chombee

The Info & Donations page really needs its text editing (too long and repetitive, I cut-pasted it all together from multiple sources) and needs some good images to break up the text. The How You Can Help page needs the same, and some general updating and fixing up. Some of the suggestions should pro...

chombee

Thanks Milk, What date should the Medina post say? And I will correct it. (I didn't write it, and I don't have a facebook account so I can't follow the link to find out). Also, isn't there a poster for this Medina event? That broken link is my fault (I deleted a couple of old blog posts and moved th...

chombee

I've reorganised the Save The Forest content on the website. It was a real mess, hopefully this clarifies things better. I've collected information from three blog posts (that were buried and unfindable under all the other blog posts) and the press pack and put it together into two static pages abou...

chombee

Could be. I also increased the number of posts per page from whatever it used to be to 15 (the maximum), that might have something to do with it. There's only 3 or 4 videos on the front page anyway. I'll try not to post too many. They can be queued up and one posted every week. I was thinking of doi...

chombee

A Google Video search for "Forest Cafe" Edinburgh finds about 270 videos: videos of events, short documentaries about the forest, Ben Lancaster's christmas messages, etc etc. You can save a Google Alert so that you'll get an email whenever a new video hits those search results. I've posted a few to ...

chombee

I have changed our tumblr password. This is because I'm planning to make changes to the site, some small some big, and currently I don't know who/how many people have the password. I've PM'd the new pass to Catalina cause I'm told she does all the events posts. If you need or want to post to the sit...

chombee

Sure go ahead, I've PM'd you an email address to use for me.

chombee

Right now I don't think there is anyone. I agree someone needs to be the go to person for the website, and someone needs to coordinate everyone who's posting to it and exert some quality control, it's getting to be a bit of a mess. I'm interested in taking this on and giving the website some love. I...

chombee

Could you take the old site offline? We don't need a complete wildcard redirect to tumblr, we just need those pages to go offline so that (in time, when google updates its index) they will stop appearing in google searches.

chombee

Agree, many links to the old drupal site come up in a lot of google searches, e.g. if you google "the forest cafe edinburgh".

chombee

They've probably got no chance of getting the Odeon, but I think it'd be worth having a chat with Sarah Colquhoun and her ten friends anyway.

http://www.thenewvictoria.com/

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl= ... Project%22

chombee

if you're reading this message board that might be enough

If only you knew...

chombee

How about just turn off the wireless?

chombee

I used to have a VPS on gandi.net and now they're trying to get me back by sending me promo codes. I can give the promo to someone else. It gives you a VPS for one month for free. Anyone want it?

They were pretty awesome when I used them, but I went back to sdf.org for the community.

chombee

Oh well, thanks for looking into it. It's probably the kind of thing that very few people care about anyway. It's cool that forest is so high on google, a lot of people must link to it. On a Duck Duck Go search for 'the forest' we're the second link under 'Places', second to a disused Australian rai...

chombee

I wonder if tumblr does good search engine awareness for us? We're also no. 1 when you search for 'forest cafe'. But two things are really annoying. Our number 1 URL is http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/ not our nice http://www.theforest.org.uk/ that we pay for. The no .3 URL when you search for 'forest ...

chombee

I stayed up really late last night programming and then slept in. You're lucky. The stuff is going this afternoon though.

chombee

All broken or disused computers in the action room are going to the dump tomorrow. If you want to salvage anything, come in and take it home with you tonight.

chombee

Great. I don't know what time the skip is arriving and I have to be somewhere else tomorrow anyway so I probably won't be there. A couple of rolls of carpet in the cave sound like they'll do the job.

chombee

I found a rug to go under the skip tomorrow morning. It's not big enough on its own, one more rug like it should do, if anyone can find one. They probably won't cover the whole underneath of the skip but should get all four corners.

chombee

...with an album of ukulele radiohead covers.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/23/am ... sells.html

chombee

I was thinking that the front page could be something like the archive . with 7 days worth of events on it in similar format .It really good way of having lots of info on a page . Good idea! This is very easy to do if we want to do it, it's just a case of changing our tumblr theme to a grid-style o...

chombee

I'll come to the cafe 7ish!

chombee

If we ever bought PCs for the action room again (and I'm not saying we should) maybe we should go for something like the Fit-PC: http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/fitpc-linux-fanless.jpg They're tiny desktop PCs. They take up no floor or desk space. You can get brackets for the...

chombee

Keyboards and mice are cheap and easy to get. If someone is offering a decent, working computer we obviously aren't going to turn it down because it doesn't come with keyboard and mouse! More news soon if I decide I can be bothered to waste my time only for things to get broken after a few days. I k...

chombee

It does need to be a collaboration between a graphic designer and a coder (assuming your graphic designer can't code) but the problem is 99% graphic design, the code for a simple static front-page should be very easy. Maybe we can get Noe to work on a theme for the blog? Here#s an example of the kin...

chombee

Hey, I've not been able to go through the computers that are in the office yet to see if any of them can be fixed and used, but even if they can it can't hurt to have a spare or even a better one from SL. Here are my suggested guidelines for what computers we are interested in: It must be able to ru...

chombee

The tumblr site already has a collection of cool images that it cycles through at the top of the page. Rather than a splash page, I think we could do well with a blog or news-style front page but that has a big banner with nice-looking imagery and basic static information at the top, the regularly u...

chombee

I'm looking forward to trying to put together new PCs for the admin office and action room out of the ones we have lying around. Before I install Ubuntu on them and hand them over to people to use I want to be able to test these PCs so that I know they don't have any hardware problems. I'm looking f...

chombee

and getting the file server to appear in the Places menu would be killer

Is this just a case of using Places->Connect to Server (and check 'Add bookmark').

chombee

I very much would like to move away from the "anyone can paint / we're all artists" shite.

Yes! It is so patronising!

chombee

I've texted some infoseed people (Tom, Jon, Dave) and they're asking around. If anyone has a phone number for Micah/Spacebunny he could be contacted also, his website says his email address is not a reliable way to get in touch with him. Hmm, I'll try emailling the folks at Indymedia Scotland too, n...

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