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[{"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311224925.3262391, "message": "\"Contact Us\" could just be the email", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1687324}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311220608.5479641, "message": "New thread from https://groups.google.com/group/pythonkc/browse_thread/thread/d5fb1dc9cb7d4be8", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1687067}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311220640.9658, "message": "http://pythonkc.s3.amazonaws.com/pythonkc-rd1.pdf", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1687070}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311220628.8838899, "message": "Here is the design. Let me know what you all think and how we can make this even better!", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1687068}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311225940.0071361, "message": "Events being front-and-center is cool. Hopefully once we get group projects out there, those would be fairly visible  too.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1687400}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311267789.6931109, "message": "I like having the contact us as a form.  And it looks nice in the footer.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1690955}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311267942.0709591, "message": "One design comment I'll make is on the header.  Maybe we should use the horizontal / stacked version of the logo?  Some social link icons in the header would be nice as well.  for twitter, meetup, google groups, etc.  Did you envision the past meetings space as slider?  If so, that would be cool.  Over all I'm really liking the minimal look.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1690960}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311267659.2112329, "message": "Thanks Julia!  I dig the direction.  It does look like meetup has an API, I don't think it would be terribly difficult.  Really all we're doing is pulling in the current meeting and some information about previous meetings", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1690939}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311267682.846323, "message": "One thing I'd enhance for our version of the previous meeting is to include video or a slide share of the presentations", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1690943}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311309257.3478119, "message": "Overall, I like it a lot too. The meetup API sounds like a good task for hack-day.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1695226}, {"user_id": 1886, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311546741.4533761, "message": "I'll clean it up and post a gist", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1711678}, {"user_id": 1886, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311546667.9414101, "message": "I did managed to pull event info and attendee pictures into a small App Engine webapp in the spirit of Julia's mockup", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1711673}, {"user_id": 1886, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311546586.733783, "message": "I've been playing with the meetup.com API a little and is not very pleasant (not to mention the Python wrapper sucks!). I ended up doing straight http calls and although is not terrible difficult, it feels kind of \"hack-ish\"", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1711667}, {"user_id": 37813, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311597413.4803231, "message": "Excellent work.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1714964}, {"user_id": 37813, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311597911.9119561, "message": "I agree with @andrewschoen on almost everything. Not sure the stacked logo is necessary, but I do think the idea of social media icons at the top is a very good useability addition. Also, along with @estebistec I would like to see projects appear in a layer somewhere, when there are some to show :) Another possible addition is to add a field to the contact form for the Nature of the contact. A dropdown with titles like programming learning presentations sponsorship, might help us determine who to route any email to. Keeping an option to have \"No specified topic\" would probably also be a good feature.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1715019}, {"user_id": 37813, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311598056.8838711, "message": "I also think the idea of sponsors in the footer is nice. All of these things can be jumping off places if we decide to build more pages in the future. And they give us a complete presentation if we decide not to. (Though I think we we have any projects that take off, they will likely need their own page space.)", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1715029}, {"user_id": 37813, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311598582.812552, "message": "Also, someone (@juandg might remember) wanted to do some work for the site, and we talked about them adding additional pages, rather than trying to do all of the main work themselves. They were  thinking of a forum and ... ? Which brings up the issue of credits. They were looking to create some attention for themselves as a web design and/or development group. We pointed out that PyKC is a collaborative effort and everyone should be able to participate. We spoke about them being able to add their names for credit on pages they either worked on or designed and dev'd. There might need to be a colophon or credits page somewhere, with links to pages of those who have actually built the pykc site. What do we think about this?", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1715051}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311606390.2862079, "message": "@juandg did you use requests?  it's the best little library for http requests.  The api is all just REST stuff so we should able to just use that and get some json back.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1715840}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311606415.7949231, "message": "@juandg maybe a good project would be for us to make a python wrapper for it that doesn't suck :)", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1715842}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1311616115.319382, "message": "@andrewschoen I was thinking exactly that :)", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1717031}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [{"date_created": 1312150049.0175459, "user_id": 15292}, {"date_created": 1312225104.7681029, "user_id": 236}], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312142170.6156509, "message": "Here is an updated version of the site design with a few changes:  http://pythonkc.s3.amazonaws.com/pythonkc-rd2.pdf", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1760174}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312142331.983489, "message": "@andrewschoen hey! Yes, the past meetings would act as a slider with the date shifting in between the arrows to signify where the user is at.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1760195}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312142287.13503, "message": "Some notes: I am not sure about the stacked logo, especially since it's centered. Not 100% sure I don't like it and would love to get some feedback. I added some icons to the social media connections for the group at the footer.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1760190}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [{"date_created": 1312150042.3341999, "user_id": 15292}, {"date_created": 1312215253.1482871, "user_id": 36019}], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312142514.936903, "message": "Also, I feel like we should just get the site up and add/tweak as we go. I LOVE the two ideas of posting group members projects or sites, plus a slideshare reference somewhere in the past events section. We should probably ask that speakers please post their slides online and post the link to the group. Very helpful idea!", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1760206}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312168602.3919799, "message": "I started hacking on what I think a good meetup API wrapper should look like this evening. I'm going to try to establish the api of it with only the functionality that we need for the pykc site and then we can expand it from there (if needed). I'll have it up on github sometime this week", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1762621}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312215242.394376, "message": "@estebistec you beat me to it.  :)  Was thinking about doing exactly that this weekend but never got around to it", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1767382}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312215186.475704, "message": "@juliaelman I don't want to tweak it too much though.  maybe we just go back to the non stacked logo and call it done?  unless you like the idea of moving those social links to the top of the page as well.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1767374}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312215142.240757, "message": "@juliaelman if we're gonna keep the logo centered then I prefer the non-stacked version.  I guess I was thinking it would be left aligned to allow room for the social links to go up top right in the header.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1767370}, {"user_id": 236, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312225287.2688389, "message": "@juliaelman I like the design a whole lot. Overall, looks like a great start.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1768648}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312693879.715709, "message": "@estebistec thanks for taking the time this weekend to do this!", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1813460}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312640633.9061589, "message": "@andrewschoen I think that if the social links are at the top, they should be incorporated into the \"Current Event\" section or somewhere in the body of the page. At the very top, it might get a little cluttered or confusing. I", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1809627}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312640748.4455099, "message": "'ll go ahead and put the non-stacked version back.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1809635}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312658222.7940841, "message": "So, although we want to use meetup.com's API to show events on this page, I assume we don't want to make the requests for every request to our page. Once the rate limit is exceeded, our page would be broken in this architecture. Will we have something like memcached or redis where this will be hosted?", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1810929}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312658255.5215931, "message": "(that's right! I just said our one-page site has an \"architecture\"! :))", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1810933}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312660304.9179139, "message": "Also, even if we do have a place to cache meetup events, their API currently provides no indication that the resources were modified or not: http://groups.google.com/group/meetup-api/browse_thread/thread/b404f43055be316", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1811110}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312660573.623209, "message": "I'll cleanup the client code and have it on github later this evening. (Yes, I'm pre-hacking hack-day, but it'd be nice to just have certain things done).", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1811131}, {"user_id": 36374, "stars": [{"date_created": 1312764402.0247049, "user_id": 1886}, {"date_created": 1312816636.6528389, "user_id": 36019}], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312693958.699645, "message": "I've created a newer version of the site. Cleaned it up a bit and took some other critique's to change a few little things around: http://pythonkc.s3.amazonaws.com/pythonkc-rd3.pdf Let me know what you guys think!", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1813466}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312732821.5194311, "message": "@juliaelman design looks awesome.", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1815114}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312732674.086863, "message": "@juliaelman np. Seemed like a good, small piece of code to feel out what people like or don't like (eg group conventions/styles).", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1815101}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312732777.32493, "message": "I'll add past events to it today, and maybe \"make it real\" (setup.py, etc)", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1815109}, {"user_id": 1886, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312764421.231602, "message": "@juliaelman +1", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1817330}, {"user_id": 36019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1312814094.874259, "message": "@juliaelman looks great!", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1821588}, {"user_id": 1886, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42404, "date_created": 1313250366.5256901, "message": "Flickr Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pythonkc/", "group_id": 10580, "id": 1864409}]