Seattle Rueda

The blog was hacked in the last 24 hours. That pushed me to upgrade the software to the latest version.

The interface for managing/posting has changed – so don’t be surprised. If you notice something that has changed or is not working anymore, please let me know – I may have missed something.

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1. Create a new post. Fill in the title and click on the HTML tab.

2. In a separate window, go to You Tube and highlight (select) all of the html code that is in the ”Embed” field. Copy (ctrl-c or use the menu options and go to edit/copy) the code. The Embed field is just to the right and a little below the actual video. It’s underneath a field called URL. When posting a video from sites other than YouTube, try to find something that says “embed code” and copy it.

3. Paste the embed code into the body of your post (ctrl-v or use the menu options edit/paste).

4. Click “Save.” (the save button is just to the right of the body of the post)

5. Click “Preview this Post.” Verify that the video appears in the post. (the “preview this post” button is just to the right of the Title)

6. Click “Publish.” (next to save)

7. Voila, you’re finished.

Please let us know if we can edit this post in any way to make the instructions clearer.

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Nicola Soriani lives in the U District.  He is without a car and is looking to see if someone can carpool/pick him up to/fro the Duane Wrenn workshops this weekend.  Alternately, if someone can bring him there on saturday, i’m sure we can figure out between us how to share giving him rides back and a ride to on sunday morning.

His number is:

206-613-9190

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Our website/blog will celebrate a year this weekend. Although the community had another site for years prior, this one has been a great tool for us all–so why not a special post to celebrate that?!

Thanks to those that help maintain the site, to Cat for her weekly video posts, instructors for keeping us informed of classes, and most importantly for everyone’s participation. Here’s to this site as a tool for us all to share info on events, practica, instruction, music, videos, etc. on Cuban dance and music. Keep it going!

Georgia

PS: Stay tuned for info in the coming month on the 2009 launch of “Casino on Cardboard: Alki Beach Party”…once it warms up and stays dry…

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Posters,

Please select and appropriate category for your post.  Below the edit post area there is a list with checkboxes for categories. Select appropriate category and don’t forget to  deselect “uncategorized” (you need to scroll down to get to it).  This little effort  makes it easier for people to find all related posts to a topic.

Thanks,

Ofer

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So I’ve copied a bunch of pictures from the old-old website and from the old flickr account over to our own gallery. You can get there by going to:

http://seattlerueda.com/gallery

There are duplicates and stuff we probably don’t need.

Any volunteers to clean up / reorg the albums / rename picture titles /etc ?

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Hi all.  I’ve created a page on instructors & classes, and a page on bands & clubs (see above) for our new Seattle Rueda blog.  These pages are a new addition and I may have missed some information or gotten something incorrect, so please send info on any additions or changes to lagriegaseattle@yahoo.com.

I’ll update these pages as necessary when information changes.  For now it is a good start for those of us here in Seattle, and for those that are visiting and want to check out the Seattle casino/rueda scene.

Thanks again to everyone that has helped so far with putting this new Rueda Seattle blog-site together.  It really looks and functions well.  See you at Selena’s for the SuperSones show on Saturday and for the first outside rueda practice this Sunday, June 1st.

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EVERYONE:

Could you give me your thoughts on what you would like to see from the Calendar for the Blog; format, functions, etc??  Thanks!
A couple of limitations or just quirky-ness of Upcoming.org is…1. that a yahoo email is needed. 2. that it’s primarily venue driven (so as an example…rueda practice or informal gatherings could not be, or, are more difficult to add) I just looked at the Upcoming “Group” option. It would allow anyone to post, but it would still require everyone to have/make a Yahoo email to join the Group. hm…
The positives of Upcoming was that it was a straightforward list, popular with arts/music communities, and it included the entire web community.
So:
Here are some of the answers I might need to inform us of which web calendar tool would be best for the group:
1. Would we want 1 or more people to be in charge of keeping the calendar, and adding events others bring to their attention? OR…have unlimited access/flexibility for many to add events as they find them??
2. What events do we want on the calendar? Limit it to public events?
3. Any other tools you would like to see associated with the calendar?
Thanks!

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We need to get working on making this into what we all want. We will need volunteers to make this happen.

* We need to get a new design – this is just a placeholder – my suggestion is to look for a free template that is good and meets our needs. then we can tweak it to our liking.

* We need to think how to organize the site so it can hold useful long term information. The 1st incarnation of the blog did a better job than the most recent version – it would be great to have good areas for music / video / pictures / resources etc.

We welcome – people – ideas…..

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