[12:04]
PeterThoeny: tsnfoo, welcome, could you please introduce yourself
tsnfoo: Hi, I'm AaronFuleki on twiki.org
[12:06]
PeterThoeny: hi aaron
tsnfoo: hiya
PeterThoeny: not sure how many will join today
PeterThoeny: i sent out the invite very late
PeterThoeny: i had to go to a neighbor in the village to connect my mac to the internet
VickiBrown: we admire your dedication, Peter!
PeterThoeny: time: +8 min
PeterThoeny: not many people
[12:10]
PeterThoeny: shall we wait a bit?
tsnfoo: sure - I'm just in and out, wanted to see what these meetings were all about.
[12:11]
PeterThoeny: i guess we should start, arthur might join later
PeterThoeny: who is taking minutes, who is facilitating?
VickiBrown: I've got the log
PeterThoeny: thanks vicky!
PeterThoeny: i'll facilitate (slowly on a swiss german kezboard (aka keyboard))
[12:16]
PeterThoeny: proposed agenda:
PeterThoeny: 1. Usability & Home Page RedesignĘ
PeterThoeny: 2. Blogging
PeterThoeny: 3. TWiki Meetups
PeterThoeny: 4. Merchandising
PeterThoeny: 5. Brainstorming for ideas
PeterThoeny: any other agenda item?
VickiBrown: (not here)
PeterThoeny: i suggest we take usability later, may be arthur will show up
PeterThoeny: ---++ 2. Blogging
[12:18]
PeterThoeny: vicky you and rich made some good progress on the app side
VickiBrown: we've had a few more entries
VickiBrown: the Rss is working I think
VickiBrown: except Michael had a problem...
MichaelDaum: didn't check again
VickiBrown: I can't reproduce it wth my clients
PeterThoeny: just glancing over http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/WebHome
PeterThoeny: good that there is now an agreement on a universal wiki edit button
Lavr_: Seems one of my ADSL lines decided to die. Good I have two
[12:20]
PeterThoeny: hi kenneth!
PeterThoeny: anything to add on blogging?
VickiBrown: Thank you Peter for updating the twiki.org home page Rss link
PeterThoeny: sure, small change
MichaelDaum: the rss feeds are quite lean
MichaelDaum: there's none containing the full blog postings
MichaelDaum: for instance, technorati mostly reads the rss feed only ... does not parse the html pages
MichaelDaum: so it would be good to get more content in there
VickiBrown: I'm not sure how to do full post
VickiBrown: I'll read FormattedSearch some more
[12:23]
PeterThoeny: it would be easy to specify a summary of length 10000, but that would strip all formatting
MichaelDaum: as far as I know there's no easy way to do full blog postings in an rss feed
MichaelDaum: with standard means
MichaelDaum: you'll have to encode it
PeterThoeny: and it is easy to show all formatted text, but not sure if that is a valid rss feed
VickiBrown: Rss XML gets upset by things like <p /> - I discovered this weekend
PeterThoeny: yes
MichaelDaum: must become a &lt;p /&gt;
[12:26]
VickiBrown: Formatted search has $text... I could try an experiment
PeterThoeny: there is no way to encode formatted text
VickiBrown: to see if it complains :)
MichaelDaum: another thing to increase blog processing by technorati and similar is to add a rel="tag" to the category links
MichaelDaum: s/increase/improve/
VickiBrown: if you understand what that means,can you edt our Rss pages to do that?
VickiBrown: it might be faster to make the change than to explain to me what you said :(
MichaelDaum: that's not an rss thing
PeterThoeny: time check: +30 min
gmc: .
[12:30]
PeterThoeny: hi koen
gmc: (just got home, sorry for being late)
PeterThoeny: vicky and michael: please take this offline
PeterThoeny: ---++ 3. TWiki Meetups
PeterThoeny: we had a nice meetup in zurich last week
PeterThoeny: about 25 people at the eth zurich
gmc: in holland we decided on a summer break for the meetups..
Lavr_: I see it resulted in a new WouldLikeToCheckin
PeterThoeny: twiki.net sponsored prosecco, wine, juice, cold cut
PeterThoeny: then i presented 30 min
[12:32]
PeterThoeny: then 5 people presented how they use twiki at work
PeterThoeny: by eth, ubs, swisscom, trivadis, psi
PeterThoeny: trivadis won the first prize
PeterThoeny: they have an excellent social software app on twiki
PeterThoeny: modelled after xing
MichaelDaum: just inspired by ...
PeterThoeny: first prize was wiki for dummies book
PeterThoeny: i asked klaus ethgen of the eth to organize meetups in regular intervals
[12:37]
PeterThoeny: let's try to get meetups going in many places
PeterThoeny: thsi helps spread the word of twiki
PeterThoeny: what meetups are coming up?
PeterThoeny: one in sep after the dev summit
PeterThoeny: in berlin
PeterThoeny: what else?
Lavr_: I am giving a presentation at a wiki seminar but the same night I have a theatre so I cannot arrange a meetup right after. But TWiki will get some exposure
Lavr_: I added the info to the InTheMedia topic
PeterThoeny: cool!
PeterThoeny: we have not heard back from the moscow meetup
[12:40]
PeterThoeny: ---++ 4. Merchandising
PeterThoeny: will noris' friend did a very cool design
PeterThoeny: i did not yet find time to give will login info for the spreadshirt account
PeterThoeny: ---++ 1. Usability & Home Page Redesign
PeterThoeny: arthur is not here
PeterThoeny: anything to discuss on this item?
PeterThoeny: if not, let's move to next item
PeterThoeny: ---++ 5. Brainstorming for ideas
MichaelDaum: shame the redesign got stuck
[12:45]
PeterThoeny: well, arthur simplified the page that lists the pages to be created
PeterThoeny: i guess it is up to all of us to start with content
MichaelDaum: is there a dev site to see how it works out?
PeterThoeny: ah, kenneth, just now i noticed klaus' would like to checkin :-)
PeterThoeny: klaus seems to be very knowleagable
PeterThoeny: smart guy
PeterThoeny: nice to get him on board!
MichaelDaum: is there any dev site to see the current state of the redesign of the home page?
MichaelDaum: a materialized one
MichaelDaum: using the new design
[12:48]
MichaelDaum: seems as up to now redesign got stuck in an academic level
PeterThoeny: i think we can get started with some landing pages
PeterThoeny: then glue things together
PeterThoeny: any brainstorming ideas?
MartinSeibert: Hi Folks.
PeterThoeny: hi martin
PeterThoeny: you join when we are wrapping up
MartinSeibert: I am so sorry.
[12:52]
PeterThoeny: welcome :-)
MartinSeibert: I will have my wedding on saturday.
MartinSeibert: I was busy.
MartinSeibert: Sorry.
VickiBrown: Happy Day!
PeterThoeny: hey, congrats martin!!!!
Lavr_: Congratulations
PeterThoeny: this is a very good excuse to be late :-)
MartinSeibert: I feel sorry for being such a lamer for the last couple of weeks also. :-)
PeterThoeny: a week ago i was at my brother's wedding in italy
[12:53]
MartinSeibert: We have moved flats to add some stress ... :-)
PeterThoeny: i guess we can close the meeting
PeterThoeny: and start chatting
MartinSeibert: I will have a look at the Wiki-document.
PeterThoeny: unless any other items come up?
MartinSeibert: Cool. Loads of people present. :-)
MartinSeibert: I just approved about 15 Twitter users.
PeterThoeny: nice
PeterThoeny: i did not yet start with a personal twitter account
PeterThoeny: intend too
[12:55]
MartinSeibert: Vickie: I thought you would do that now?
MartinSeibert: Don't you?
VickiBrown: We never discussed
MartinSeibert: Vickie: Sorry for that. I hope that those did not become angry yet. :-(
VickiBrown: Martin did you change the Twitterfeed? Did the new password work?
MartinSeibert: Vicki: No, sorry.
MartinSeibert: Can you get me in the loop again?
VickiBrown: not a problem. I narrowed the scope of WebRss
MartinSeibert: What was I supposed to do exactly?
VickiBrown: i will resend the email; it's at home
[12:56]
MartinSeibert: Okay. Perfect. i will review it then.
VickiBrown: new twitterfeed so we can share a password/login :)
MartinSeibert: Sorry for missing to accomplish that yet.
VickiBrown: np. Your mind has been elsewhere :) :)
MartinSeibert: Definitely. But that is still a weak excuse.
MartinSeibert: Just resend the mail and I will get it straight.
VickiBrown: Will do!
[12:58]