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It's in your title:
https://github.com/geogeeks-au/geogeeks-au.github.io/blob/master/index.html#L9

Are you trying to wheel us in with with talk of funky groovy geo nerdery, only to peddle weight-loss pills at us?!

;)

It's not clear when you open the page that it's a Perth group. This should be front and center.

The images in the website are from the original theme template. Nice pics but would be good to use our own.

I've changed some of the content & sections, and now the padding looks a bit excessive. Perhaps will be fixed when we adjust the theming?

Questions:

• Night of week
• Which of these are you interested in?
  • Workshop (free text: what sort?)
  • Speakers
  • Mapping Party (ground truthing)
  • Mapathon (editing)
  • Lightning talks/open mic night
  • Hack nights/hackathons
• Where?
• Barriers to attending?
• Would online be benefitial?
• Can you help organise talks, workshops, or places to map?

Schedule:

• Jan: Speakers, 2 or three
• Feb: Mapathon, intro level
• Mar: Open mic night
• Apr: Mapping party followed by a 2nd mapathon
• May: speaker

The frontmatter could include a photos key, with a list of URLs of photos to display in a gallery at the bottom of the page. Could link them from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, or wherever. Local uploads too, although we'll have to keep an eye on repo size I guess.

Looking at the site setup, there seems to be duplication between _data/events.yml and the hosting platform for the event, forcing maintainers to update information on two separate platforms (GitHub + the hosting site).

Looking at the hosting platforms, we mainly use www.osmcal.org (OSM meetups), and Humanitix (GeoGeeks events).

There is tooling/widgets for embedding lists of osmcal and Humanitix events directly in websites:

• Humanitix: Event listing widget
  • Docs
  • Demo from event dashboard
• osmcal
  • jbelien/openstreetmap-calendar-widget for the OSM events (as suggested in the osmcal docs).

Pros

• Zero site maintainence (events auto-populated/updated as they're changed)
• [Humanitix] Tighter branding integration with Humanitix website (potentially prompting people to follow GeoGeeks on Humanitix)

Cons

• Less flexibility on event metadata
• [Humanitix] Less flexibility on event listing UI
• Requires lock-in to Humanitix and osmcal as event providers
• Event creators need access to OSM/Humanitix accounts

Other note

• Requires splitting GeoGeeks and OSM events into 2 sections

I'm not sure of the best way to fix this, maybe we should address it when we start adjusting theming?

This is especially a problem on mobile devices. Need some way to make it clearer that these are projects and not just pretty pictures.

We currently just have a link to OSM to show a map, but instead could embed a slippy map with a pin in it. Even an optional geojson? It could look for a geojson with the same base filename as the event file.

We have a new google account [email protected]. Should add it to the contacts section as an email address.

Been working with the dev environment for the website, and running bundle exec jekyll serve populates a bunch of files in the _site/workshops folder.

I assume these files aren't meant to be git-tracked, so should this line be removed?: