Dreamwidth Development

As previously announced I am hosting a Dreamwidth volunteer party this weekend, from Friday to Sunday morning!

The delay in updating this announcement is largely because A Family Commitment has come up on the Sunday afternoon, and I needed to work out how to wrangle logistics. I can now confirm that Doors Open some time on Friday late afternoon, and me_and and I will need to be hitting the road by 11am on Sunday -- this means we can provide brunch. (If you've spent a bunch of time in our house before we're probably comfortable leaving you to continue chilling after we've left, but check in with me about that if you think it's a thing you'd like to do.)

As ever, we'll be around on Discord, IRC, and Skype-by-arrangement if you wanna join us remotely. I'll be working largely on the Support Board and docs, with maybe a few tiiiiny code fixes, but mostly I expect to provide moral support and overcatering. I am super excited to see you!

Access notes and house rules under the cut (developed in consultation with alexwlchan and cesy); if you need my address or contact details and can't see this post in my personal journal ping me and I'll IM you!

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The volunteer weekend is nearly upon us! I'll be in and around from mid-afternoon Friday.

I'm expecting to provide crash space for shortcipher, cesy, and swaldman. If you think you should be on that list, please shout!

There are lots of local takeaways and I'll also be over-catering, as usual. Food is by default lacto-ovo vegetarian but lots of other configurations are available; the kitchen does contain both gluten and nuts.

Please also shout if you need my Skype details to join in that way, but I'll make sure we're paying attention to IRC too :-)

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(& if you don't have things in mind to work on, DON'T WORRY, I HAVE A WISHLIST and so too does kareila)

Hello folk!

I would quite like some encouragement to host another Dreamwidth volunteer weekend. I am arbitrarily choosing March in the hopes that I will have got my current energy levels slightly more sorted out by then. As usual, I am offering to host (in North London, step-free access, Skyping/IRCing in welcome & encouraged). ERGO:

Hello folk!

A reminder that I am running a Dreamwidth contributor weekend on the 14th of May, with spillover to the 15th. To get a sense of what goes on at these events, you can take a look at the November event summary and the February event summary.

If you need the physical address, please let me know and I'll PM it you along with instructions on how to get here by public transport. This is not the same address as the last time I hosted, so please do make sure you know where you're going!

If you'd like to attend remotely, find us on IRC or add me on Skype (ekabrett): I'm intending to have a spare machine running a video Skype call to interested folk from the corner of one of the rooms from about 11am on the Saturday (i.e. if you're attending in person and would rather not participate in the Skype call this will be avoidable).

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Hi folk,

Per the poll, I will be hosting a Dreamwidth contributor event on the 7th & 8th 14th and 15th of May in London. (November 2015 event announce and summary; February 2016 announce and summary.)

It would be possible to hold the Saturday portion of the event in the cafe at Campus London, an event space in Shoreditch managed by Google -- or to hold it near Oakwood station on the Piccadilly line. The latter's more awkward to get to, but I'd be in a position to provide lots of food; the former is going to be a public (and possibly crowded/noisy) space.

If you'd be curious to try out Campus London as a venue, please let me know by Friday the 18th of March -- I'll need to set up an Eventbrite or similar, and I'll need to be able to provide Campus London with a list of attendees prior to the event, and also to come up with some copy about how hosting a Dreamwidth event will Benefit The Start-Up Community. (If me_and remains the only person expressing an active interest in this I am absolutely delegating the booking to him. :-p)

Cheers!

Attendees: nine-ish

Issues filed: 6

Pull requests made: 15 (and another several mostly-drafted to come)

Support: lots of issues tested, diagnosed, and responded to (mostly by cesy, who's gone up three places on the High Scores board!)

Documentation: one bug specification, two updated FAQs, and a new wiki page

Things baked: one batch of salted caramel brownie; one batch of cornbread

Furthest telecommute: the Australian contingent are still winning this one (swaldman showed up in person this time, so that's the longest physical commute but means he wasn't in the running for a prize for this category ;) )

Next event: sometime in May (poll to follow!)