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On Friday 25 November 2005 6:55 pm, Thomas Arrow wrote: > Hi, > Just thinking that at the last meeting only four of us turned up and > that maybe that was because no one actually saw the Forthcoming events > page. It was discussed on the list (which is the usual way of broadcasting a meeting) and the weather, the evening slot, the location and the sheer size of the area covered by our group means that this was not our smallest ever meet! :-) Small meetings can have a useful function but what we have always struggled to create is a regular schedule of meetings in regular venues. Various methods have been tried and we do have a list of common venues but these are not suitable for regular meetings for a variety of reasons. The fact that your email was signed is evidence that small meetings can be useful! (Tom and I spent part of the meeting discussing gnupg and how to generate and manage keys. I also helped with a problem in a small C program Tom had written.) I hope you've had time to read the DCGLUG FAQ on gnupg - one minor thing is that most signatures now use OpenPGP/MIME (like this one) because the inline method (like your message) can suffer from problems. Typically, a genuine message can end up with a bad signature because of character set conversions or badly-configured mail relays between you and the recipient. However, inline signatures ARE easier for Outlook Express users to handle so when corresponding with recalcitrant OE users, inline can be handy - even though it is rightly deprecated. http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/gnupg.html > I don't know whether it is possible or already happens but I > haven't found it that a rss feed could be created for meetings. The current RSS is a bit of an after-thought in the current Wiki design and isn't easy to modify. It's restricted to single page changes rather than a more common RSS format of overall changes to the website or sections of the website. Each meeting page has it's own RSS feed but I haven't been able to create a single feed with an overview of all meetings. The Forthcoming Events page is not actually part of the Wiki but a static page that reads Wiki data. If anyone has a snippet of PHP that can turn the Forthcoming Events page into RSS, I'll gladly take a look. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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