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Welcome to PlanetSoC 2006!

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Welcome to the unofficial site for folks involved in Google's Summer of Code 2006 program! Here's some of the stuff you can do:

  • First, Sign up to your organization. Once approved, this will give you the ability to interact with all the site's features.
  • Edit your profile settings to include additional details, such as your location, so that it can be displayed on the lovely Google map!
  • Post to your blog: Both students and mentors can post blogs.
  • Chill out at the forums, meet other folks involved with SoC, share tips and tricks, and just generally hang out and have fun. :)
  • ...and much more! ;)

I'm very open to suggestions on other features to enable. Please make post any suggestions to the About PlanetSoC forum, and have fun! :)

webchick – Sun, 2006 – 05 – 21 13:43

Well, there's the end to that little experiment. ;)

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For obvious reasons, anonymous comments are now disabled. :P~

Sorry about the spam problem folks.. should be fixed now. Apologies if I inadvertently deleted any *legitimate* comments talking about home insurance or viagra whatever. ;)

Thanks Chani for the note!

webchick – Mon, 2006 – 09 – 04 04:12

New site features: tags and aggregator

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Hi, folks!

Two new features to tell you about:

1. There is now a tags link to show what are popular tags and allow you to bring up a list of content by tag.

2. I've enabled the aggregator module to list off-site blogs. For now there is only one feed. ;) But please respond to this thread with the link to yours and I'll get it added.

webchick – Tue, 2006 – 05 – 30 03:18

New feature: Google Map

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I've enabled a new feature which allows students and mentors to specify their geographic location from a Google Map interface. To do so, simply go to your my account link, click "edit" and then click "location map." Move/zoom the map to your desired location, then single-click. After a couple of seconds, it will place a marker and automatically fill in the longitude/latitude for you (or you can just fill that in manually if you know it off the top of your head :)).

The good news? Now everyone will show up on the map link. Yay!

webchick – Mon, 2006 – 05 – 22 04:59

Poll: Should I enable voting for anonymous users?

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Sure
73% (8 votes)
No way dude
9% (1 vote)
Other (add a comment)
18% (2 votes)
Total votes: 11
webchick – Sun, 2006 – 05 – 28 17:18

Question: Should poll voting be opened to anonymous users?

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Please vote in the poll here: http://2006.planet-soc.com/?q=node/227

I had originally set this up so both creating and voting on polls could only be done by students/mentors. However, an increasing number of students are using the poll option to query the public at large about certain things related to their projects. Therefore, I'm thinking of opening poll voting to anonymous users, knowing that results skewing may happen, but that overall the polls will probably be more useful.

This is your guys' site, so I'd welcome some feedback on how you'd prefer this to be done.

webchick – Sun, 2006 – 05 – 28 17:20

Mentors: How to get started using PlanetSoC

Here's a brief set of instructions to show you how to get started.

root – Mon, 2006 – 05 – 22 02:03
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