Setting up a Degrowth Summer School UK website

Awesome and thanks! I’ll send you the link closer to the date.

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Hi Jon! Here’s the link https://meet.jit.si/Degrowthsummerschool-DIGITAL. The call will be at 6 pm London time. Hope you can make it and looking forward to chatting with you!

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Hey Jon, could you please double-check the invitation to the ‘Summer School UK’ folder on the cloud you sent to me earlier? I can’t see it in my account. My user name is oxa. Maybe you created another profile when invited me? Thanks!

Hey Jon! Sorry for disturbing you again. The cloud is working perfectly now. The only problem is that it keeps sending email notifications every half an hour or so, I’ve already received about 100 emails from it with mostly the same notification. Is there any way to adjust the number of notifications? Thanks!

Also, I’m not sure if Emidio informed you, but he dropped out. We’re trying to find another person to set up the website. Thanks for your patience and support!

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Hi @yala. I’ll be doing the setup of the UK summer school website. I’ve built some sites on Wordpress in the past, so it would be great to use that again. Do you have a Wordpress hosting service that we could also use?

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Best people, sorry for being absent the last week. And thanks for tuning in @jbusch.

@Oxana I suspect the cloud notifications continue to arrive? We have a similar incident reported from another instance of the Software.

@jbusch Yes, we maintain WordPress farms and independent sites, depending on the needs. We might want to refurbish a farm for you, or launch a new independent instance.

For now we were talking to start collecting the content and its structure in a ghost.org blog, so writing can start before actually building a design.

Would you also feel comfortable in templating with Handlebars and JavaScript for a Ghost theme, instead of a PHP design for WordPress?

@Oxana Please excuse I had abruptly quit the conversation without the voluntary delivery. Please find a login screen for the blog inviting you to register at

https://uksummerschool.degrowth.net/ghost/

I hope the environment it offers is as self-explaining as possible. Please give notice, in case you have questions.

One might also take examples from my previous theme research for arts.degrowth.net at help needed for "arts for degrowth" blog (#33) · Issues · degrowth / degrowth.net · GitLab

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Thank you very much Jon!
The notifications stopped arriving after a couple of days.

Hi @Oxana Did you know that there is a UK degrowth network and website: https://degrowthuk.org Might be useful for publicising your summer school.
Mark

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Hi @mark.burton! Thank you, it would be great to share info about the summer school on the website once we’re ready to go public :slight_smile:
Do you manage the website, or, if not, maybe you know who we could get in touch with about this?
Thanks,
Oxana

Yes @Oxana, it’s managed by me and Joe Herbert (Newcastle). So yes, just let me know. And do join the email list.
Mark

Hi @Oxana I am finding that the registration screen has disappeared and someone reclaimed that blog for themselves. Was it maybe you?

I’m especially interested, if email transmission is working from the system. If you need any assistance in setting up the content, please create an account for ecobytes and status@ecobytes.net. We can then request a new password, if necessary.

Hi @jbusch are you decided on WordPress, or would you like to give Ghost templating a try?

Theming with Handlebars, SCSS and JavaScript is really a breeze, in comparison to WordPress themes with PHP.

Hi Jon! Thanks for the message and following up with us.
Indeed, the screen has disappeared, I didn’t register and don’t think anyone else has, but trying to find out to be certain. Is there any chance that it could expire?
We should have another call sometime soon, likely this week, and will try to make some decisions about the website then. Again, you’re welcome to join us if you’d like! In any case, we’ll keep you posted :slight_smile:

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That’s great! Thank you @mark.burton! We’re actually planning on starting promoting the summer school relatively soon to fuel interest before the launch of the call. We’ll be in touch then.

I think many people in our group have already joined the email list, and it probably can be another channel to spread the word.

Thanks,
Oxana

Hey @Oxana, I have reverted that site to its original state, and would like you to reclaim it soon’ish. It’s readily waiting for at

https://uksummerschool.degrowth.net/ghost/

Please let me know about this call, and I will check if I can participate.

Hey @yala thanks a lot for the reply! Jonathan registered on the platform, we’ll discuss during the call if it’s all working and how to go about access to the website. The call is scheduled for this Saturday 4 pm London time. Jitsi link is the same https://meet.jit.si/Degrowthsummerschool-DIGITAL. If you can, please join us!

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Hi @Oxana I will try to be there, but cannot make a promise on the weekend. Will we continue to keep notes in https://board.net/p/UK_degrowth_summer_school_-_DIGITAL ?

I’m really interested to know the opinions of @jbusch and other WordPress developers about developing for the Ghost platform. In my view, it makes a lot of sense for simple sites to try Ghost, but it’s upon you to tell about its simplicity and usefulness, both from an end user and designer perspective.

Hey @yala, yes we can use the same pad. If you don’t manage to join, I’ll send you an update after the call. Thanks for your help!

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Hi @yala. I’m not really a Wordpress developer, and I also don’t have a lot of time to customise anything so I was really hoping for a theme that we could use without too many alterations.

We’ve had a look through some ghost themes, and they seem more suited to a blog style site than an events page. How difficult would it be for you to set us up with a Wordpress backend instead of Ghost?

Hi @jbusch thanks for your investigations. I see that the site’s design has been altered. Indeed Ghost is more suited for simple and text-focussed content styles. Is it a specific feature, that you are missing?

From the experiments on the page I cannot depict, if you would like static content pages, for example. I’m can always provide counsel here, if you need suggestions for how to move forward. Ghost is quite a straightforward environment, why we can provide it donation based.

In case this kind of voluntary support is not suitable, a WordPress website would always be available from an Ecobytes membership. You could register here http://ecobytes.net/membership-form, and we could continue setting up a WordPress environment.