What?

The OpenGuides project was five years old. A small celebration was held in June 2008.

Where?

• Turf Tavern, Oxford

When?

• Saturday 21st June, 12 noon onwards

Notes

This was definitely a social occasion but some vague notes on OpenGuides-related discussions (and let's face it, others) are available:

• Atom publish support for OpenGuides interesting - esp for mobile devices?
• OpenSocial? / Google - provides things like commenting, and enrichens user experience just by dropping some JS into your page
  • Techcrunch.com has an article?
• Discussing of rewriting OpenGuides to be a Catalyst app. Ivor is working with Catalyst and has some ideas about how it could be done.
• london.openguides.org database - Dom to try and resurrect this site on urchin and let the community decide whether to use it again or move content to randomness
• Akismet - should be using this or something similar for spam protection - outsource!
• Summertown shops - Dom to go on a spree to cover his area in the Oxford guide
• "No login required" - Janet points out that a little message like this next to the "Edit this page" link may make it clearer how the wiki should work; people might assume otherwise that behind the "edit" link lives a login/signup page
• Good beer guide - London people are already doing this, Oxford should get some GBG categories (also a good way to expand pub listings)
• justeat.co.uk - random interesting way to do takeaways online (Socks mentioned having a separate site just for take-away menus online and someone else mentioned this)
• Zoho - alternative to Google Docs (very much an aside)
• OSM PDF - can we have a way to let people print out directions to a place with OSM mapping data (OSM already lets you download a PDF of a view)
• Braindogs - Artem's band!