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Something to do with the routing I think. Links work OK from the event page but not from the home page, where they give you this:

eg. one of the QGIS template links from this week's event resolves as follows:

• from home page: https://geogeeks.org/1115_sentinel_qgisatlas/A3_Dual_Map_Template.qpt
• from event page: https://geogeeks.org/2023/1115_sentinel_qgisatlas/A3_Dual_Map_Template.qpt

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

The /events page has a beautiful map with a ton of thumbnails and direct links, that is small to represent. It sucks that each client has to go through the rigmarole, and the added round-trips getting the gallery.

If the jekyll build can access the network, render the page in puppeteer or something (or fetch the apis, ...) and cache the html, then that can be written to disk and simply served. The js can replace the cached list when it completes getting newer photos.

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.

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

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.

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

Doesn't make good preview cards at the moment, e.g. https://www.opengraph.xyz/url/https%3A%2F%2Fgeogeeks.org%2F2023%2F0705_qfield-osm.html

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?

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

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?:

Because we have the source of truth for all our events stored as individual pages here, we should be able to add an ical feed that people can subscribe to in their calendars. The feed is just a single text file in the (awkward) ical format, so it might be as easy as dropping in a single file for Jekyll to render. Here is an example of just that: https://github.com/ct-martin/fossrit.github.io/blob/master/feeds/calendar.ics

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

The snippet is the most valuable real estate your page will ever have, in the discussions of the page at hand! I write my event descriptions to read well before truncation for this reason.

Like #42 ?

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

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?!

;)