29 April 2008

well -- i guess i'm going to have to start keeping this up-to-date

yesterday --- i refined my SLVEC_coaching template. i added an 'RSVP' field. i've found many people using tools like SurveyMonkey to gather some useful information as well as a way for others to express interest/intention of attending a class. so ... i've started using SurveyMonkey and so i added the 'RSVP' field. (the field can actually be anything: plain text, a link, a 'mailto' link, ...)

Zai pointed out that 'RSVP' might not be 'international' enough. so i'm seeking a more universal (and succinct) way to say 'please click here to express your intention to attend'

today -- i added a new template SLVEC_coaching_cancelled -- a quick way to cancel a coaching session. all you need to do to 'cancel' a calss is to change the tamplate's name on the classes page and add the reason field. all the other fields can stay. (that makes 'reversal of cancellation' quick and simple). when you cancel a class, the HTML loses the 'm2m_...' ID's so the page is no longer easily scrapable by automated tools.

today i also tweaked my wFont template. in the description/instructions, i failed to list the text field.

on another note ... it seems no one is really interested in my Mac Primer for Non-Mac Mentors classes. this is like my fifth offering of the class and, to date, i've had a total of seven people attend. ((sigh)) looks like this will be the 1st test of my cancellation template. i figure no one will be interested in my 'lag' session either. ((double-sigh))

i put a shout out on the 'volunteers' mailing list asking for mentors to submit class suggests to the Mentor Coach Class Request page. so far: nothing's been added. (i guess people rather party, gather, police, and bitch.)

i'm continuing to refine my Mac Primer for Non-Mac Mentors page. i need to make some updates to the Mac OS X (technical issues) page, too.

JIRA ...
i've added a comment (and vote) to the llTargetOmega issue, SVC-1910.