WG/OBIT/Minutes/120628

= OBIT Meeting (6/28/2012) =

Attending: Brandon, Dana, Eden, Steve.

Kendra's Grant Proposal
We read through Kendra's MRG grant proposal. Wow, Kendra, you did a really amazing job with this!

v2dev Hackathon
We're going to have another v2dev hackathon day on Sunday. Noon - 5pm @ E5. Steve makes E5 reservation request.

ARIA's communications proposal
A working copy o fAria's proposal is here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/fYVvZSE9X3Lh. We added some comments; others are welcome to add comments too.

Calendar posting is a bit of a mystery. Calendar was traditional managed by media; no one in OBIT knows (beyond what's on https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/calendar)

(Update: Farhad says there's a list of calendar admins on http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Media, but the list may be outdated.)

Steve's suggestion: get an OBIT google account. Have each WG make their own calendar, and share (read-only) with the OBIT google account. OBIT makes a composite out of the different calendars, and put that on the website. See http://www.occupyarlingtonma.org/events for an example of this technique.

This would cover WG's but not OB-wide info

Eden will write to calendar@lists.occupyboston.org, and ask them to make list submissions public. Part of the issue we have: broken calendar form, and calendar@lists.occupyboston.org that doesn't accept mail from the general public.

(Update: http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/OBIT/Services looks like a list of who does what. We should update this list.)

Calendar submission form
See http://support.occupyboston.org/trac/ticket/68. Attached to the ticket is a wireshark packet dump, showing (a) a gzip compression error, and (b) varnish HTTP headers.

We suspect that varnish may be caching form submission responses.

Brandon IRCs lefty; asks him to add a varnish exclusion rule for POST.

No dice with the post exclusion rule.. We tail access logs, and make submission.

HTML form indicates post



apache sees GET request. That's messed up.

209.234.253.248 - - [28/Jun/2012:20:39:21 -0400] "GET /calendar-event-submission-form/ HTTP/1.1" 200 7357 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0"

Will require more debugging.

obit@occupyboston.org
obit(AT)occupyboston.org mail goes to obit-support(AT)lists.occupyboston.org. If you're interested in getting support requests, then subscribe to obit-support.

Question: obit-support subscriptions require moderator approval. Should we change this.

wordpress questions
We have an ad-hoc discussion about wordpress administration, and theming, and few permissions issues on bostonoccupybanks.org.

Meeting Locations
Steve will request E5 reservations for Thursday night meetings in July.