Ottawa Valley SAGE

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Oct 6, 2013 - 2 minute read

October Meeting 2013

Title: October Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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October: September revisit

Given we had such a small turnout at the last meeting, I’m going to reuse the topics.

As mentioned for last month, we are now a LOPSA local, so anyone showing up this month gets a few LOPSA stickers, compliments of LOPSA and Matt Simmons. I haven’t had a chance to get started on the re-branding of the site yet, but that will be completed before the November meeting, so I can start year 15 with a new look. In celebration, I’ll buy the coffee and snacks for the meeting.

Sep 15, 2013 - 1 minute read

Galleries are fixed.

Looks like it was a short code issue after an update that messed things up. Revisiting the posts and correcting the codes seems to have fixed everything. RSS feeds are still working, so I think we are all good.

Sep 13, 2013 - 2 minute read

September Meeting 2013

Title: September Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Welcome to September…

A couple of items for the group first:

  • LISA'13 will be in Washington D.C. from Nov 03-08, 2013
  • We are now a full Local for LOPSA and the only one outside the U.S. at this time.
  • I’m thinking of re-branding the site a little to show the affiliation and to remove the old SAGE branding as that is now ancient history. I will probably keep the ovsage name, but might add a second domain to redirect here
  • We were formed in November of 1998, so this November is our 15th year in operation. Maybe I can keep it running another 15 years :)
  • The annual social will be at the Mill St. Brew Pub again. I have asked for a better seating arrangement for this year. High bar stools at a small table are not quite what this time around. This is tentatively scheduled for Dec 19, 2013
  • Site photo galleries all fixed up as well as working RSS feed again

Items/Talking Points for the September Meeting:

Aug 17, 2013 - 1 minute read

Image galleries are currently unavailable.

Well, they are disabled at the moment due to a problem with the RSS feed. After having it brought to my attention a few days ago, I finally had a chance to have a look and it seems that the combination of plugins I have all work except the nextgen gallery, so I’ll be messing around with gallery plugins for a little bit and update the posts when I get it fixed. Lucking there are only a small number that reference galleries.

Aug 17, 2013 - 6 minute read

August Meeting Notes

We did not manage to get through all of the items I wanted to discuss, however I did manage to hit all of the bullet points that were posted for the meeting. That leaves me with a few topics for the next meeting, so all is good.

Asciidoctor: A Ruby tool for Documentation

I have mentioned AsciiDoc numerous times in the past and I still think it has great utility. I’m trying to keep documentation in that format, as it can be read as simple text as well as used to generate very nicely formatted output in formats suitable for printing, web pages, etc. It seems that this was also noted by some people in the Ruby arena and they created Asciidoctor. From the official website, we get the following description: