convore.json/groups/django-community/djangopeopleme/messages.json

[{"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306889134.243094, "message": "Not sure. It died, then came back for a week, then died again. @chrisjones and I started on this before it came back and almost quit while it was up, but now that it's down again, we're glad we didn't. Our hope is that this site basically fills the hole that dp.net left behind.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245369}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306888801.3119509, "user_id": 12030}], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306888741.7293241, "message": "@chrisjones and I just launched this replacement for djangopeople.net. I know some of you were working on it but we were building this before you started back up :). Anyway, it's up and launched and, we think, pretty neat. Try it out and let us know if you have any problems.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245292}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306889389.5327101, "message": "I'm also not opposed to dp.net coming back (it was a great site) but I'd rather have a way to find people than an indefinite wait", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245445}, {"user_id": 6688, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306889241.0189281, "message": "Simon's code for the site is all up on github -- but it's in bad need of some maintenance", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245402}, {"user_id": 27859, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306888935.7192609, "message": "what ever happened to djangopeople.net?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245336}, {"user_id": 6688, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306889156.767683, "message": "djangopeople.net was a project run by @simonw, who is (understandably) a very busy man, so djangopeople.net has aquired a few tumbleweeds.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245376}, {"user_id": 6688, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306889182.442713, "message": "I've spoken with Simon, and he's keen to have someone take over the codebase", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245380}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306889364.670495, "message": "@freakboy3742: yeah, we didn't know that the dp.net code was available when we started, and I'm kinda glad we just started from scratch, honestly.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245441}, {"user_id": 6688, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306889197.9423349, "message": "And the DSF is keen to have someone take over the site too", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245385}, {"user_id": 1147, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306890431.6461329, "message": "Would be nice if some of that data could be brought back too... It looks like a tiny community right now :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245596}, {"user_id": 2056, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306890048.810725, "message": "Is the source open for either djangopeople.me or djangopeople.net?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245530}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306890515.0102849, "message": "@edmenendez: definitely would be nice to reach the audience that dp.net had.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245612}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306890145.3342249, "message": "@pyeek: the source is open for djangopeople.net (https://github.com/simonw/djangopeople.net) but not for .me.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245558}, {"user_id": 13496, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306890845.2326159, "message": "Great work on the site Chris - really clean. Would you mind sharing what you used for the Skills tagging auto-suggest feature? Love the way that works.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245652}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306892270.3069229, "user_id": 1736}], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306891395.9338269, "message": "@coderanger originally that was because we sent out tweets programmatically instead of using Twitter's buttons. You're right, though. I'll go remove that.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245726}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306891144.5773821, "message": "@shacker: we used jQuery tagsinput (https://github.com/xoxco/jQuery-Tags-Input) with jQuery autocomplete and a quick little backend view to provide the list of skills.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245690}, {"user_id": 1147, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306893004.1617551, "user_id": 7691}], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306891985.229248, "message": "Putting in a two word tag seems to split the word on two lines. If the tag is too long that's also a problem...  Very clean interface btw. Love it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245827}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306891242.087985, "message": "Not to nitpick, but why does this need write access to my Twitter account? I can't imagine any scenario where that would be useful :-P", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245707}, {"user_id": 12030, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306892296.90959, "message": "@edmenendez thanks for that. We have more features we plan on dropping in as well, so if you have any suggestions let us know.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245873}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306892286.3879261, "message": "@kennethlove Never hurts to be paranoid when it comes to these things :-)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245872}, {"user_id": 2056, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306893002.3217721, "user_id": 7691}], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306892974.4210041, "message": "@kennethlove Thanks. very cool and great work indeed...I was wondering where the dp.net went for a while.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1245950}, {"user_id": 1127, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306901431.031337, "message": "No idea what I've missed in this thread, but the site looks pretty cool. There's a lot of UX stuff that I think could be cleaned up (I'm anal about even margins/padding), but overall the site is pretty responsive/shiny", "group_id": 81, "id": 1247994}, {"user_id": 15284, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306902469.7287149, "message": "Cool site! I'm setting up my profile http://djangopeople.me/p/Fitoria/ :D", "group_id": 81, "id": 1248307}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306903336.9827399, "message": "@zeeg: really glad you signed up and like it. Please let us know (devs@brack3t.com) anything you'd change and we'll take a look at it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1248595}, {"user_id": 6648, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306906338.7971311, "message": "Looks nice. You have an \"Available for\" field... have you considered adding a \"Looking for\" field?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1249674}, {"user_id": 13496, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306908087.0515449, "message": "@kennethlove Thanks for that!", "group_id": 81, "id": 1250138}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306914829.4224341, "message": "@kennethlove That's kinda a slap in the face for the people working on bringing it online again, https://github.com/brutasse/djangopeople.net", "group_id": 81, "id": 1251035}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306914849.945586, "message": ":(", "group_id": 81, "id": 1251038}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306914877.73314, "message": "Also, I've said this in a different thread here before, I'd be happy to help hosting the site on Django infrastructure", "group_id": 81, "id": 1251042}, {"user_id": 24018, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306921535.705075, "message": "@brutasse @danfairs and me did some work on djangopeople.net but I'm not sure if anyone talked to @simonw about it", "group_id": 81, "id": 1251638}, {"user_id": 1167, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306936346.715831, "message": "but anyway, whether it's djangopeople.me or djangopeople.net, we need a low bus factor, those projects need to be community efforts (that's what we tried to start with @danfairs and @bezidejni, the 3 of us have admin rights on the repo).", "group_id": 81, "id": 1253270}, {"user_id": 1167, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306936070.4898679, "message": "so, like @bezidejni says we've been working on the djangopeople.net codebase. We did some work (see https://github.com/brutasse/djangopeople.net/wiki for the details), then tried to contact @simonw via e-mail. We didn't get any reply and a few days later djangopeople.net went back online. It seems to have died again, I really don't know what happened.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1253216}, {"user_id": 6587, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306940454.5109849, "message": "@kennethlove i like the site, however adding skill tags is not working for me.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1254009}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306946802.0488801, "message": "@jezdez: didn't mean it like that at all, honestly. mostly @chrisjones and I just wanted to build something for the community. We both got calls back when dp.net was online and wanted to bring that back to everyone. Sorry for any offense :(", "group_id": 81, "id": 1255430}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306947102.532681, "message": "@keegan: can you give any more feedback? how is it not working?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1255489}, {"user_id": 12030, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306949166.2386849, "message": "@jezdez: Wasn't meant that way. We started this a while ago as a side project for fun and something to give back to the community since we both missed dp.net. About a week or two before we were ready we found the conversation going on about dp.net possibly coming back. As @kennethlove said, we almost stopped working on it but decided to finish it since we had already put the time into it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1255734}, {"user_id": 6587, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306953113.582372, "message": "@kennethlove ok they seemed to have appeared now. They would just disappear if I reloaded the page when I did it earlier.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1256375}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306961585.25475, "message": "Excuse my earlier grumpiness, I really appreciate that you spend time on something for the community, didn't mean to insult your work. If at all this should remind us that we need to collaborate more on this front.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1258477}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306961603.5298309, "message": "@kennethlove @chrisjones ^", "group_id": 81, "id": 1258480}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306961787.057508, "message": "@jezdez: no apology necessary. We do plan on opening it all up later on, just don't feel like we're in the right spot for it right now. Until then, though, like I said, we'd love ideas and feedback from everyone.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1258500}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1306982663.941721, "message": "@kennethlove I think its awesome and an improvement on dp.net", "group_id": 81, "id": 1261822}, {"user_id": 32856, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307018836.0285201, "user_id": 1081}, {"date_created": 1307036629.4145041, "user_id": 1736}], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307012140.290035, "message": "I'm glad to see an instance of djangopeople live again, since I found the original site useful for getting a geographical bearing on other Djangonauts.  I have to admit, though, the Twitter auth requirement feels weird.  I haven't yet registered because I don't know if I want to create another Twitter account for the sole purpose of registering.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1265321}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307018848.7961149, "message": "@mattmcc I would have preffered google apps or maybe even fb connect", "group_id": 81, "id": 1266039}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307037759.66274, "message": "We've both had bad experiences before with using Facebook for accounts, but we'll look into it again. Google and other OpenID/oAuth shops should be pretty easy to handle, too, just have to make sure it's working with our templates and messaging.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1269293}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307037775.4300549, "message": "We chose Twitter because it seems pretty ubiquitous. Were we wrong?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1269300}, {"user_id": 12030, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307037921.4143331, "message": "We chose to use Twitter's auth because it was dead simple. It just works and works well. We just wrapped up a project using Facebook Connect and the Facebook Python SDK was a real pain to work with. They still haven't made it available in PyPI even with an increasing number of tickets asking to make it work on their GitHub page.\n\n@mattmcc: Any reason why you would create a second Twitter account to register? Just curious as I assumed any developer that joined the site would have a Twitter account thus making the signup process a hell of a lot faster. Not to mention it's very easy to find people you already know or follow on twitter since we just use the Twitter username. Interested to hear the responses.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1269342}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307047331.1645219, "message": "@chrisjones I think a lot of people are squeamish since it feels like giving out personal info (even though now that you set it to read-only, you have no access to anything that isn't public AFAIK). I have seem many places (including Convore) abuse Twitter account linkages in the past.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1271023}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307051637.3727169, "message": "@coderanger: Facebook would give make more info available than Twitter, AFAIK. Currently all djangopeople.me does is use your Twitter username, provided real name, and avatar. We were using OAuth tokens back before launch to send tweets (user-prompted, nothing involuntary) but we don't do that anymore since we use the Twitter-provided button to produce a tweet. Like I said before, though, we'll investigate providing more forms of account creation, but we'd like to keep it simple and clean.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1272022}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307057170.9616179, "message": "@kennethlove Sure, not accusing you guys of anything, just saying social-media-only for logins is usually a big turn-off for the nerd crowd.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1272679}, {"user_id": 33347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307062225.6959331, "message": "@kennethlove site looks great, thanks :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1273112}, {"user_id": 32520, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307109120.184134, "message": "looks fantastic. I really liked :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1277436}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307123486.1338501, "message": "A damn big map with all the Django developers in the world on, that's what I want :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279287}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307122617.259094, "message": "Yeah", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279184}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307123222.0744801, "message": "Just looking at djangopeople.me - looks nice :) tbh, my primary motivation for working on djangopeople.net was having it available as a resource. If it or, in this case, something like it is up - well, then, that's a win!", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279251}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307122719.2913051, "message": "Oops :) damn iPhone app. Yes, I was working on the Djangopeople.net source, but have been on holiday for a few weeks - only just getting through the post holiday backlog now. Hoping to continue soon, after eurodjangocon.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279200}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307123051.377696, "message": "@danfairs: as weird as it may sound, I would definitely love to see djangopeople.net come back up. It's what inspired @chrisjones and I to build djangopeople.me so we don't want to to die some horrible death or anything :). Good luck with the work you're doing on it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279235}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307123257.058394, "message": "A secondary motivation for getting djangopeople.net up and running again, with good, modern, clean code though was to provide a nice reference implementation of a GeoDjango site.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279260}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307123066.6637101, "message": "also thanks to @supjeff and @andersoncardoso for the compliments.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279236}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307123383.4293611, "message": "ftr - I also don't like using Twitter as my auth source.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279271}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307173085.6264679, "user_id": 16762}, {"date_created": 1307184960.190814, "user_id": 24018}], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307123449.400243, "message": "If I may offer a comment on usability though - it doesn't quite get that interactive, grabby, here-be-Django-developers that djangopeople.net's UI gave you. I think that's what made djp.net so inviting.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279281}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307124500.3008449, "message": "hahaha, that's definitely in the pipeline. We wanted to keep it small for now because the dp.net site, with its giant map, loaded so slowly.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279396}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307124520.7015231, "message": "But, yes, that's planned. Working out how to get the GeoRSS feed that I want and how to get the map playing nicely.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1279401}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307139377.8506761, "message": "@danfairs: there you go, big map ;)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1281854}, {"user_id": 25337, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307286753.2100949, "message": "@kennethlove Hah - that's more like it! Though it does look like Planet Earth has been invaded by a race of mysterious red wine gums :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1293602}, {"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307303014.5210969, "message": "Nice ;) but clustering... you needz it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1295046}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307307011.5412819, "message": "@rlofthouse: clustering?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1295440}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307315107.3306179, "message": "@coderanger ah, yeah, that would be awesome. not sure leaflet supports anything like that right now. I suppose I could control that by detecting the JS zoom and redrawing the points. We'll see.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1297238}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307315012.543407, "message": "@kennethlove When zoomed out, nearby points should be grouped together, only dividing as you get closer. Keeps the noise down.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1297222}, {"user_id": 24018, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307321007.9566791, "message": "you're definitely going to need clustering, just imagine showing several thousands of people on the map at the same time (dp.net was 5-10k people if I remember correctly)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1298567}, {"user_id": 34431, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307446792.2835741, "message": "@rlofhouse On the edit page what javascript are you using for the bubble input on the tag field?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1319386}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307462994.587357, "message": "@bezidejni at this point, that's not a concern since i'm only fetching up to 500 users for the front page map. I don't plan on increasing that number until I can do clustering.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1323017}, {"user_id": 7691, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307471931.012701, "message": "@pastylegs we use the jQuery Tag Input plugin for the tags, with the jQuery autocomplete to provide the...autocomplete. http://xoxco.com/clickable/jquery-tags-input", "group_id": 81, "id": 1326024}, {"user_id": 34431, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37616, "date_created": 1307471642.5934579, "message": "@kennethlove lol, I meant to direct my question about the tag field above at kennethlove, not rlofhouse", "group_id": 81, "id": 1325947}]