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[Cheri Francis <cheri703@xxxxxxxxx>]

I like it! It is (reasonably) simple to add a point to the map (though
if we could do city/state vs lat/long that'd be nice). And it's easy
for visitors / new folks to get an idea of the member spread. Thanks
Jacob!

-Cheri

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Jacob Peddicord <jpeddicord@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/
>
> I've made a few minor changes to how the site runs and operates,
> hopefully for the better:
>
> * Anyone in the LoCo can now sign in, just hit the Log In link at the
> top and you'll be able to sign in with Launchpad. We just check to see
> if you're a member of ~ubuntu-us-ohio and you're on your way.
>
> * Anyone on the Council team (~ubuntu-us-ohio-council) has full
> administrative access online. Furthermore, council members (and others
> with council approval) may request SSH access to the site; just send
> me an email off-list. This was supposed to be the case all along, but
> it turns out I messed this up when first setting things up.
>
> * Some people may have noticed an occasional "503 Service Unavailable"
> error. This was due to a bug in our software which has been fixed[1].
> If there are still issues, please ping me on IRC (jacob) or send me an
> email. (Technical details: PHP would crash under certain
> circumstances, and the web server would fail to restart it. The server
> should now start a new copy when it notices that PHP crashed instead
> of bailing out.)
>
> * Regarding the discussion about maps, Cheri suggested adding one to
> the site. I went ahead and turned on mapping support, which lets
> anyone who signs in set their own location. The full map is here:
> http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/map/user
> The advantage of this is that someone can't just open the map and
> remove all of the points. However, the caveat here is that I can't
> just import the map data from SMK's census map. I'm open to using this
> or SMK's map, and would love feedback on this. :)
>
> Let me know if there are any issues.
>
> Cheers,
> Jacob
>
>
> [1] http://lists.octality.com/pipermail/cherokee/2011-May/014802.html
>
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> Jacob Peddicord
> http://jacob.peddicord.net/
> https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord
>
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