[open-linguistics] Open Linguistics website

Fri Mar 23 14:14:37 UTC 2012

Dear all,
here are some photos from LDL at DGfS.

http://dgfs.uni-frankfurt.de/dgfs/Pictures/Pages/78.html
http://dgfs.uni-frankfurt.de/dgfs/Pictures/Pages/135.html
http://dgfs.uni-frankfurt.de/dgfs/Pictures/Pages/140.html

These can be used on the hp, if someone is interested.
Best
Sebastian

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:49:53 +0100, Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org>  
wrote:

> I have deployed the new OKFN theme: go to linguistics.okfn.org to take a
> look! I hope you like it - but if there are any aspects that you don't
> like, do let me know.
>
> The theme is designed to work well with sidebars e.g. Tweetblender etc.  
> If
> you would like a hand getting anything like this going, drop me a line.
>
> I haven't significantly changed content - I've just added a landing page
> with a brief sentence introduction. Feel free to edit that as much as you
> like.
>
> If I can be of any help, just drop me an email.
>
> Great stuff!
> Laura
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Laura Newman  
> <laura.newman at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> People in a basement and screenshots would all be excellent additions to
>> the website!
>>
>> I've had a quick look, and photos of the March meeting don't seem to be  
>> on
>> the OKFN flickr site. If you could send any materials like that across  
>> to
>> me that would be great. I'll start updating now, and we can add
>> progressively :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Sebastian Nordhoff <
>> sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Laura,
>>> one appropriate picture would be the linguistic LOD-cloud
>>> http://linguistics.okfn.org/**resources/llod/<http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/>
>>> We had a conference in March in a basement room with a projector and  
>>> very
>>> good attendance. I do not have photographs myself, but there should be  
>>> a
>>> way to get hold of some (If you think that photographs of a basement  
>>> room
>>> are any good as pictures). We could also give you screenshots of  
>>> various
>>> resources.
>>> Sebastian N
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:45:13 +0100, Laura Newman  
>>> <laura.newman at okfn.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I am happy to deploy the new theme if you would like. A couple of
>>>> questions:
>>>>
>>>> * Would you like a landing page? At the moment the home page is the  
>>>> blog.
>>>> * The new theme looks *much* better with pictures. Do you have  
>>>> pictures
>>>> of
>>>> recent events / linguistic related images that we could include?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Laura
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org
>>>> >wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Great - lets wait until the end of next week to see what people  
>>>> think.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Sebastian Nordhoff <
>>>>> sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Dear Laura,
>>>>>> we would most probably be grateful for integration into the overall
>>>>>> OKFN
>>>>>> theme. I would say we will wait until March 15 for people to raise
>>>>>> objections, and if that's not the case, please go ahead.
>>>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>>>> Sebastian Nordhoff
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:13:43 +0100, Laura Newman <
>>>>>> laura.newman at okfn.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure I've introduced myself on this list yet, so a quick  
>>>>>>> hello
>>>>>>> first - I'm Laura, a new(ish!) Community Coordinator at the OKFN.  
>>>>>>> For
>>>>>>> those
>>>>>>> of you I haven't yet met - hi! :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have been asked to oversee working groups generally, and am
>>>>>>> currently
>>>>>>> checking that all groups are happy and functioning. If you have any
>>>>>>> questions or are in need of help, do feel free to contact me at any
>>>>>>> time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can see this mailing list is well used, which is fantastic. The  
>>>>>>> Open
>>>>>>> Linguistics website (http://linguistics.okfn.org/) however is less
>>>>>>> active
>>>>>>> at present. If you like, I would be very happy to deploy the new  
>>>>>>> OKFN
>>>>>>> theme
>>>>>>> there (see e.g. Open Economics <http://openeconomics.net/> and Open
>>>>>>> Science<http://science.okfn.****org/ <http://science.okfn.org/>>for
>>>>>>> ideas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> of how it might look).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How you use the site is entirely up to you, and there is no  
>>>>>>> pressure
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> make any changes if you're currently happy. But if e.g. a nice a
>>>>>>> landing
>>>>>>> page would be helpful, I can certainly help to get that up and
>>>>>>> running.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me know what you think!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>>> Laura
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Laura Newman
>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
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