Hello

I'd like to suggest, if technically possible, a desktop screenshot contest.

So we can see each others desktops and see how groovy, sexy and foxy each of us configured each desktop.

I can even suggest some rules:

1) No nudes wallpapers
2) Windows desktops may be accepted, just be ready for some critics
3) Multi-monitor setups go along their own category, I mean, we won't compare 2048x768 desktop with 1280x1024. Just not fair!
4) Xgl desktops are cool, but we need at least 2 diagonally opposite isometric screenshots for proper hmm analysis.

I just need to know how we will submit screenshots, or if each participant will simply give a link to his desktop.

I saw some comments at http://2006.planet-soc.com/node/117 that look suspiciously like spam. :( looks like we may need to moderate comments or something if this isn't a one-time thing... eeeeevil spam :P

Hello there!

It would be great if you could make some tag for "auto linking" when posting blog entries. We would define the most frequent words (mentor's name, organization's name, etc.) on a web form or something and associate an automatic link for them. This way we could type:

My mentor is <auto>mentor</auto>

insted of:

My mentor is <a href="...">mentor</auto>

I believe this feature would save us much time when posting blogs.

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.

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.

Webbie :)

How about a link field for Mentors to link their projects too? So we can see what project you mentors are working on.

Japa

Just to let everyone know, the map now has two new features:

1. Displays green markers for mentors, red markers for students.
2. When you click on a marker, it shows each person's project and whether they're a mentor or student, plus their website (if entered).

there were a bunch of useful links I could obsessively click on when the mailing list got slow :) now they're gone :( the 'popular content' thing on the left isn't the same and makes no sense.
how do I find out about new blog posts & comments now?

There is no longer a need for students to submit projects here... http://code.google.com/soc/ has links to all student proposals, so I nuked this feature and have the "projects" link forwarding to google.com.