2015 spring fling page about cugos.github.com HOT 23 CLOSED

@svmatthews I'm in favor of making this a unique page, not a meeting post.

The content at this point would essentially reflect the call that went on the forum and will continue to evolve as the event takes shape.

Feel free to whip something up and we can hack from there.

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Great! This beckons the need for an alert option on the homepage to tell people about the spring fling!

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"Public Service Announcement: CUGOS to coordinate and execute many geo hacks and cracks at the University of Washington on May 20th, 2015!"

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... but mostly cracks!

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How can I help?

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Good question! We'd definitely like to plug it through the OSM community, if you wouldn't mind doing that. I think the dates are still being finalized, but @powersa and myself will put together a "sample email" if people want to share with their respective communities.

Bigger question: how would you like to help?

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re: the page itself, I think creating a template for events would be really helpful i.e. templates/events.html so we can use it again? This will give us access to more front-matter and would be great for adding information as we progress.

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@powersa is there an Eventbrite RSVP or anything? Happy to set one up if needed.

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Alright, here's a screenshot of where we're at.

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@aaronr you okay doing that talk? ^ 😉

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Here's what the markup looks like for that event page:

---
layout: event
title: 2015 Spring Fling
event_date: May 20th, 2015
event_time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
event_location: University of Washington, Anderson Hall
event_header-image: header_cascadia.png
event_register-url: http://eventbrite.com/
event_schedule:
  -
    time: 9:00 AM
    title: Kickoff
    description: This is a thing with some things.
    extra: "http://www.codeforamerica.org/media/images/people/ben-golder.jpg"
  -
    time: 9:15 AM
    title: Talk by Aaron Racicot
    description: About CUGOS, about drone mapping, about brewing beer.
    extra: "http://www.codeforamerica.org/media/images/people/ben-golder.jpg"
  -
    time: 9:45 AM
    title: Open Source and what it means for you by ___________
    description: Sometimes you build things. Sometimes they build things. But everytime, we build things.
    extra: "http://www.codeforamerica.org/media/images/people/ben-golder.jpg"
  -
    time: 11:00 AM
    title: Hack proposals.
    description: Propose the hacks.
    extra: "http://www.codeforamerica.org/media/images/people/ben-golder.jpg"
  -
    time: 12:00 PM
    title: Lunch
    description: Think about the hacks.
    extra: "http://www.codeforamerica.org/media/images/people/ben-golder.jpg"
    extra_class: break
  -
    time: 12:30 PM
    title: Hack.
    description: Do the hacks.
    extra: "http://www.codeforamerica.org/media/images/people/ben-golder.jpg"
event_sponsors:
  -
    image: sponsor-uw.png
    link: http://www.washington.edu/
---

The CUGOS Spring Fling is a **full day events centered around open source geo**. This is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of all things open-source geospatial. If you care about geometry busting workflows, academic research brain dumps, parsing vertices while drinking beer, code as well as content, usability as well as design, then show up and eat free pizza. Join us for this special all-day-kinda event at the magical University of Washington Seattle Campus in place of our regular monthly meeting. BOOYA!

## Location

We'll be having our event at Anderson Hall, on the University of Washington campus.

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Awesome, having a specific template type is the bomb, will make differentiating between meetings and special events that much easier.

@svmatthews, what you've got so far looks great to me. Still waiting to get the final details ironed out, so no even page yet. Let's hold off till we know for sure when the fling will be before creating.

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oh yes, agreed! working in springfling2015

also, adding a checklist of things to the top of this issue so we can keep track.

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once we have a site up, i'll ask around for money for sponsorship plus we'll have little jar at the mtg for folks to chip in.. @powersa let me know if you want me to set up eventbrite later date..i've used the names from the list to print out name tag few years ago.

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Thanks @keum! I'm happy to help recruit sponsors with you as well. Let's chat offline about that so we can coordinate 👍

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Updated nav style if adding the nav_class: event in yaml of page. Also updated navigation loop to include 0 in the weight search.

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Spring fling alert on homepage! I'm wondering if this would be best on every page, and just remove the navigation? What do you think @powersa?

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@svmatthews, that looks fabulous. If the alert is on every page, I think we can drop the nav. The alert pops more, so I'm in favor of running with the alert.

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Probably still need to add Anderson Hall, University of Washington to the location section. Not sure if the map is done optimally, might be very annoying when scrolling down page.

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Nice updates! One thing, I'd remove the layout: default in the event.html layout. The header isn't full width if you use default and right now there are two footers, one coming from event and the other from default.

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@powersa looking good there! I'll remove the navigation stuff and push the alert to every page, except for the event itself.

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@svmatthews you've got the go no go on pushing this out. I will follow up with an email about the date change + direct people to the site

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Closing this issue since we're launched. Now working on updates in #105

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