Subject: Re: replace training blurb with upcoming pug meetings?
From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:39:38 +0100
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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 10:20 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> > I think people are interested in new and interesting things, however
> > we categorise them. Running the same course title monthly for a year
> > is not news, but then neither is the 5th meeting this year of the
> > Pugtown PUG. Nor is writing multiple blog entries on the same day.
> 
> Agreed, except actually multiple blog entries on the same day can
> certainly be interesting, if they're about different and interesting
> topics.

I agree, but I think we need a reasonable cut-off point.

> > We just need a way for proactive and/or innovative people to get
> > attention for their activities, without being swamped by bulk
> > marketing activities by the overzealous. Cool blogs, new courses, new
> > PUGs etc are what people want to know about.
> > 
> > Can we review again the reasons for keeping all on one page? Why not
> > allow the screen to scroll down?
> 
> The screen already scrolls, because we increased the length of each
> section. (Well, it depends on your screen resolution of course, but
> in for example 1024x768 (not untypical since a lot of people don't
> use maximized browser windows) it does).
> 
> I think it's fine to have the screen scroll, but it'd be good if we can
> keep the headlines on the initially visible part so that people know to
> scroll. (It does that now at 768 lines at least)

Agreed.

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