Comments for Island 94 http://www.island94.org Ben Sheldon's lost & found Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Methodological Belief by Mom http://www.island94.org/2012/02/methodological-belief/#comment-147563 Mom Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:09:10 +0000 http://www.island94.org/?p=2996#comment-147563 I'd suggest the monopoly of the doubting game you observe is to seek a negative rather than to uncover a truth or to build understanding. And now I'm critically thinking about the timing of your post. Hmmmmmm I’d suggest the monopoly of the doubting game you observe is to seek a negative rather than to uncover a truth or to build understanding. And now I’m critically thinking about the timing of your post. Hmmmmmm

]]> Comment on Adding class to WordPress linked images by Adam Housman http://www.island94.org/2011/01/adding-class-to-wordpress-linked-images/#comment-145055 Adam Housman Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:05:59 +0000 http://www.island94.org/?p=2425#comment-145055 Way to go - this is really helpful, thanks. Way to go — this is really helpful, thanks.

]]> Comment on Adding class to WordPress linked images by matt http://www.island94.org/2011/01/adding-class-to-wordpress-linked-images/#comment-136189 matt Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:56:05 +0000 http://www.island94.org/?p=2425#comment-136189 Thanks, this was exactly what I needed to ensure that my lightbox worked properly Thanks, this was exactly what I needed to ensure that my lightbox worked properly

]]> Comment on Setting up Octave and Gnuplot on Apple Mac OSX by sh http://www.island94.org/2007/09/setting-up-octave-and-gnuplot-on-osx/#comment-131770 sh Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:22:29 +0000 #comment-131770 Bless you for this. I'm running 10.5.8 (99.99% of the time I wouldn't care about upgrading) and eventually was able to get Octave 3.2.2 and Gnuplot/Aquaterm working with this and the comments above. I could probably get 3.4 to go but as this is just a short-term thing for me anyway I won't risk fubaring up something that works. Bless you for this. I’m running 10.5.8 (99.99% of the time I wouldn’t care about upgrading) and eventually was able to get Octave 3.2.2 and Gnuplot/Aquaterm working with this and the comments above. I could probably get 3.4 to go but as this is just a short-term thing for me anyway I won’t risk fubaring up something that works.

]]> Comment on Fundraising Tool Memo Boilerplate by David Eads http://www.island94.org/2011/10/fundraising-tool-memo-boilerplate/#comment-131430 David Eads Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:54:56 +0000 http://www.island94.org/?p=2810#comment-131430 Great to see FreeGeek's statement on funding quoted! We've used IndieGogo twice over the past year for fundraising campaigns with moderate success. To respond to the two questions posed: 1) For us, the status quo strategy/planning for fundraising is mostly to rely on revenue from sales and money we can make from selling valuable scrap. In the spring, the revenue stream itself was insufficient to cover our recycling bills so we ran our first campaign to pay our recycling bills. In the summer, revenue was at a more-or-less sustainable level but we didn't have the additional capacity to bring on an intern we wanted to help with laptops. The latter campaign is the model we'd like to pursue more -- a proactive, opportunistic (in the good sense) attempt to gain capacity that would otherwise be built slowly. 2) For us, Indiegogo *is* the existing channel. Our volunteer base contributes a lot of hours, but not a lot of cash. For us, the audience that can support us with their cash is predominantly online -- IT professionals, friends and family of staff members. Before we do more campaigns, I'd like to see us create online stuff that has public value to expand the audience of potential donors -- there's only so many close friends we can hit up every year. We'd like to start producing some media, particularly short, bilingual videos and we also have Townsquare. Particularly with the videos, I can imagine a completely non-obnoxious, 5 second voiceover / card at the beginning and end: "FreeGeek Chicago's videos are supported by your donations. Learn more at freegeekchicago-dot-org-slash-donate." Finally, IndieGogo > Kickstarter (and most of the rest) in my opinion. The tech isn't quite as nice as Kickstarter (think BitBucket vs. Github) but otherwise it's just a better deal. The fees are similar at the end of the day but you don't have to reach your goal to get the funds, which is the vaguely scammy caveat of Kickstarter. You can pay directly with a credit card instead of needing an Amazon account. You don't have to be a "creative" project nor is the UI fussy or media-centric like RocketHub. If the campaign creation workflow and dashboard tools were as nice as Kickstarter, they'd be the best fundraising platform hands-down. Great to see FreeGeek’s statement on funding quoted! We’ve used IndieGogo twice over the past year for fundraising campaigns with moderate success. To respond to the two questions posed:

1) For us, the status quo strategy/planning for fundraising is mostly to rely on revenue from sales and money we can make from selling valuable scrap. In the spring, the revenue stream itself was insufficient to cover our recycling bills so we ran our first campaign to pay our recycling bills. In the summer, revenue was at a more-or-less sustainable level but we didn’t have the additional capacity to bring on an intern we wanted to help with laptops.

The latter campaign is the model we’d like to pursue more — a proactive, opportunistic (in the good sense) attempt to gain capacity that would otherwise be built slowly.

2) For us, Indiegogo *is* the existing channel. Our volunteer base contributes a lot of hours, but not a lot of cash. For us, the audience that can support us with their cash is predominantly online — IT professionals, friends and family of staff members.

Before we do more campaigns, I’d like to see us create online stuff that has public value to expand the audience of potential donors — there’s only so many close friends we can hit up every year. We’d like to start producing some media, particularly short, bilingual videos and we also have Townsquare. Particularly with the videos, I can imagine a completely non-obnoxious, 5 second voiceover / card at the beginning and end: “FreeGeek Chicago’s videos are supported by your donations. Learn more at freegeekchicago-dot-org-slash-donate.”

Finally, IndieGogo > Kickstarter (and most of the rest) in my opinion. The tech isn’t quite as nice as Kickstarter (think BitBucket vs. Github) but otherwise it’s just a better deal. The fees are similar at the end of the day but you don’t have to reach your goal to get the funds, which is the vaguely scammy caveat of Kickstarter. You can pay directly with a credit card instead of needing an Amazon account. You don’t have to be a “creative” project nor is the UI fussy or media-centric like RocketHub. If the campaign creation workflow and dashboard tools were as nice as Kickstarter, they’d be the best fundraising platform hands-down.

]]> Comment on Setting up Octave and Gnuplot on Apple Mac OSX by elzinko http://www.island94.org/2007/09/setting-up-octave-and-gnuplot-on-osx/#comment-130829 elzinko Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:22:22 +0000 #comment-130829 thank you GTS for sharing your trick since it solved the problem that you described thank you GTS for sharing your trick since it solved the problem that you described

]]> Comment on Setting up Octave and Gnuplot on Apple Mac OSX by Hardik http://www.island94.org/2007/09/setting-up-octave-and-gnuplot-on-osx/#comment-130800 Hardik Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:19:55 +0000 #comment-130800 Awesome thanks !! I just did what was in step 3 as I was on Snow Leopard and success!!! Highly recoemmend all those on Snow Leopard and having issues to try this first. The other step mentioned here gave me error so not sure about the sudo command etc... http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files//Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary/2009-10-03%20binary%20of%20Octave%203.2.3/README_OSX1065.txt/view Awesome thanks !! I just did what was in step 3 as I was on Snow Leopard and success!!! Highly recoemmend all those on Snow Leopard and having issues to try this first. The other step mentioned here gave me error so not sure about the sudo command etc…

http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files//Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary/2009–10-03%20binary%20of%20Octave%203.2.3/README_OSX1065.txt/view

]]> Comment on [REMOVED] Boston Subway in Vector Format (SVG) by Peter Swan http://www.island94.org/2009/09/boston-subway-in-vector-format-svg/#comment-129609 Peter Swan Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:45:37 +0000 http://www.island94.org/?p=697#comment-129609 The image that you are using is a copyrighted image - you need the written approval from the MBTA to use this image. Please cease and desist so that we do not have to involve the MBTA Legal Dept. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Peter Swan MBTA Marketing 617-222-5568 The image that you are using is a copyrighted image — you need the written approval from the MBTA to use this image.

Please cease and desist so that we do not have to involve the MBTA Legal Dept.

I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Peter Swan
MBTA Marketing
617–222-5568

]]> Comment on Project fecundity by Denise Cheng http://www.island94.org/2011/09/project-fecundity/#comment-128433 Denise Cheng Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:52:27 +0000 http://www.island94.org/?p=2912#comment-128433 holy shit, man. i feel dizzy. holy shit, man. i feel dizzy.

]]> Comment on Setting up Octave and Gnuplot on Apple Mac OSX by GTS http://www.island94.org/2007/09/setting-up-octave-and-gnuplot-on-osx/#comment-126440 GTS Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:11:11 +0000 #comment-126440 This fixed my problem (from the octave 3.4.0 readme.html file): On a very small number of Mac systems an AquaTerm window is not opened at all. Therefore AquaTerm.app has been included into Gnuplot.app and that can be started automatically if Gnuplot.app's startup script /Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot is modified. Change the lines # DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" \ # open "${ROOT}/lib/AquaTerm.app" into DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" \ open "${ROOT}/lib/AquaTerm.app" which will open AquaTerm.app automatically if you launch Gnuplot.app. This fixed my problem (from the octave 3.4.0 readme.html file):

On a very small number of Mac systems an AquaTerm window is not opened at all. Therefore AquaTerm.app has been included into Gnuplot.app and that can be started automatically if Gnuplot.app’s startup script /Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot is modified. Change the lines

# DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=”${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}” \
# open “${ROOT}/lib/AquaTerm.app“
into

DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=”${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}” \
open “${ROOT}/lib/AquaTerm.app“
which will open AquaTerm.app automatically if you launch Gnuplot.app.

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