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Guide.png  Please see Nottinghack Rules/Guide - The Hackspace Online

The Nottinghack website provides information that is the public face of Nottinghack. We always need extra people to update the site and post on the blog, so if you are interested let us know! There are Web Editors who have access to update the site, but anyone can submit a change request via github.

Nottinghack github and documentation

The github is a repository for the space's documents and code, including its website:

The Rules and Members Guide:

Floorplans:

Updating the Website

The members that maintain the website can be found on the List of Web Editors page.

The website's contents is updated via github see Website Version Control page. Anyone can submit a change request via github.

Writing a Blog Post

The main Nottinghack blog is here. It is looked after by the Team:Communications. Typically, post are highly relevant to the space. However, guest posts are welcome - contact the comms team.

Planet - blog aggregator

For more personal/random posts Planet may be a good fit. It is a stream of the latest blog posts by makers who have opted in.

The Nottinghack / Website github contains the list and code for Planet:

  • ../planet/nottinghack/ - contains config file for details of bloggers
  • ../public_planet/heads/ - contains the head icons

Newsletter and wiki

Also, contributions to the Newsletter are welcome. The wiki can also be used to write about you project, for example Les Plywood and Fire Pong.

Google Calendar

The public facing Google Calendar is on the website and embed on the wiki Events page.

Direct access is here.

Add Nottinghack Calendar to your Calendar (Import/Merge/Export)

To add Nottinghack Google calendar; login into Google, go to the calendar [page and add it to 'other calendars'. Alternatively, search for the address info@nottinghack.org.uk after going to Google Calendar.

Add an event to the Nottinghack Calendar

To add an event create the event on your own calendar then invite "info@nottinghack.org.uk" as a guest.

There is also an Eventbrite page

Trello

Trello is used for outstanding jobs, see Trello page. Their is also a Hackspace 2.5 Trello for downstairs AKA Hackspace 2.5.

See also