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trinhtienhai — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:07:55 +0100

How can you show freemind on drupal ? what modules you used ? thanks for share :)

DEMOCRATISING GOVERNANCE

jsaviri — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:30:14 +0000

Colleagues

I need some case studies and data to help me project trends in citizen participation in the UK. Are you able to assist? I need this data for a presentation at a closed roundtable meeting.

Thanks in advance

Joseph Savirimuthu

jsaviri@liverpool.ac.uk

Re-inventing organisations as networks

David Wilcox — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:10:23 +0000

Thanks for the link to my blog - there's a now a more up to date piece on how the web may change oranisations, and on re-thinking membership.

VoIP Provider

docsharp01 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:00:58 +0000

A resource for VOIP is at http://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/VoIP.html

Thank for this

mars — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:08:00 +0000

Thank for this, I browse this software, fring seem excellent, I had used raketu before, raketu use peer-to-peer (p2p) technology allows high quality VoIP calling and they claim the highest call-completion, without the security issues associated with supernodes (i.e. skype) and other traditional p2p technologies. I hope fring can be one competitor with raketu.

Theming and rendering refinements

alan dawson — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:40:58 +0100

The nodecomment module provides two views for comments

1. Threaded

2. Flat

There is a requirement to have a semi threaded view though. This is where replies indent one level, but no more after that. I've quickly done this the wrong way. By hacking the prebuilt views. :-(

Heres the diff

diff nodecomment_views.inc nodecomment_views.inc.drupal
368,371c368,369
< if ($last_depth < 1 ) {
< $divs++;
< $output .= '<div class="indented">';
< }
---
> $divs++;
> $output .= '<div class="indented">';
376,379c374,375
< if ($last_depth > 0) {
< $divs--;
< $output .= '</div>';
< }
---
> $divs--;
> $output .= '</div>';

Anyhow that works OK... until we need a full threaded view again.

The correct way would be to read the theming views documentation and create a new view and corresponding theme for the semithreaded view. .. later ;-)

Also there was a requirement to remove the "reply" link from the indented nodes. A change to the .tpl.php sorted this.

<?php
$node->depth = count(explode('.', $node->thread)) - 1;
if ($node->depth == 0): ?>
<div class="links clear-block"><?php print $links ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

Ie only print the links at the bottom if the nodecomment is a first level, rather than a reply to a reply. This should probably be refined further, so that users with the correct access rights / roles ( administer nodes ? comments ? ) will still see the links.

This post comes out very strange

AndyDearden — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:46:23 +0100

Hi Steve

This contribution looks really strange here on the T&SA site. As it is out of its original context, it now appears like two videos of you showing us how nice the road to Margrove Park is - and it's kind of scary that the video is all driving down the right hand side of the road - do you always do that?

Andy

Andy Dearden
Reader in e-SocialAction
Communication & Computing Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
S1 1WB

My memory of the workshop

alan dawson — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:31:03 +0100

is blogged here .. http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/189

Re: MyWeb2

Steve Thompson — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:45:03 +0100

Things just got a bit better,

I've experimented and find that I can point our domain anywhere, blog,
webpage etc and the domain still functions for other parts of Google
Apps - email, start page calendar etc

And I just got the following from Google Apps

not sure which application they reviewed because for good measure I
tried 3 different methods.)
=========================================
Hello Steve,

Thanks for your reply.

Welcome to Google Apps Education Edition! We have reviewed your
application and are excited to upgrade your Google Apps account for
'MyWeb2.org.uk'.

To view these changes, visit your administration control panel. To log
in,
visit https://www.google.com/a/'MyWeb2.org.uk'.

Within the control panel, you will be able to enable advanced
features
such as mail migration, calendar resource creation, and Google Apps
APIs
for single-sign on or integration with existing user directories.

As a Google Apps Education Edition customer, admins can contact our
support team via phone or email through the Google Apps Help Center
at
www.google.com/support/a.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PRADSA" group.
To post to this group, send email to pradsa@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pradsa-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pradsa?hl=en-GB
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

We have learnt loads - THANK YOU!

Bernard Clarke — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:17:02 +0100

Just to echo the above comments, my team and I really enjoyed Friday's meeting.

Steve's preparatory work and ICT knowledge helped us learn about the most applicable tools and why we needed them. We all feel much more confident about using the system and encouraging others to do so.

We will be meeting over the next few weeks to debrief from Friday and plan the learning programme and will update you all on the blog etc.

Once again - many thanks Steve!

iGoogle and Manchester

kutoma — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:20:45 +0100

Yes despite a wet start the meeting went really well. I enjoyed trying out all the igoogle applications. I am sure Benard's participants will equally enjoy trying out all the different stuff there particularly as it all seems user-friendly and fun. It is easy to use and doesnt need a lot of IT support or know-how. The participants will also possiblky find it easy to demonstrate to others in their line of work. I see David has also brought to attention google apps. I have not had a chance to play around with it but if its got better features and even easier to use, then even better for Benard and his team should they decide to take it up.

Web services vs local free software

Paula Graham — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:43:37 +0100

Agree, this is exactly what the Hub should be doing, but won't. The Hub doesn't want to fund stuff which will require ongoing revenue funding but wants to set up self-sustaining networks and knowledge bases blah blah. In short, they want to throw some seed dosh at it over a short period and expect NOT to have to spend anything on actually developing service infrastructure.

What small orgs want is applications they don't have to maintain themselves (whether locally installed and remotely maintained or remotely hosted) -- and that's exactly what small orgs aren't going to get because it would involve providing revenue-funded services which is exactly what a neo-liberal government wishes to avoid.

If there's any way of funding it, the provision of either remotely-hosted apps or an 'outsourced' (remote-access) maintenance service is what SMO's actually WANT.

Agree, apps can be provided appropriate to bandwidth but what orgs want to do doesn't always mesh with what their connection will support.

Manchester in the Rain & a "VLE for Free"

Steve Thompson — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:54:00 +0100

We had a great day yesterday going through this. Whether or not the Manchester "Inspiring Leaders" team take this up I will certainly roll out a form of it on Teesside at some time.

Interestingly there is nothing we can see and therefore share with the PRADSA team because each persons iGoogle is personal to them. Something the Manchester group soon got the hang of as they personalised their learning spaces to suit their own personal interests and preferences and much fun was had.

There is a course blog (which learners would subscribe to in their iGoogle) but I'll leave it to Bernard and his colleagues to reveal the URL of that.

Since returning home I've experimented more with blogger and found easy ways to impliment some of the things the team were desirous of having.

http://testingblogger222.blogspot.com/

1) Course Overview
2) Links to some PDF's (actually uploaded to Google Groups)
3) Videos including one shot directly into a £30 webcam

I think what is important is that none of this is dependent upon a highly skilled ICT "gatekeeper". It's all entirely DIY will only a reasonable level of ICT know-how.

Thanks

Bernard Clarke — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:53:24 +0100

Thanks for the list Kutoma - I was finding it hard to remember links, this is just what I needed today!

Bernard

This also dovetails well with...

Josef Davies-Coates — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:11:08 +0100

...our plans to organise a (series of) WTF's The Future?! -type event(s)

See http://wiki.espians.com/WTF_1 for an idea of what it'll be like.

The focus this time will be on Transition Towns, Relocalization, and The Great Turning from Empire to Earth Community (see http://transitiontowns.org http://relocalize.net and http://thegreatturning.net etc.)

The question might be something like "How can we prepare for the impact of Peak Oil, reduce our contribution to Climate Change and create a positive future?"

Josef.