NEW WEBSITE IS LIVE!!!

[Moheeb Zara]

Brett and I put together a new HSL website! https://heatsynclabs.org

I wanted to clarify a few things since they were brought up at HYH.

We have always followed standard practices for open-source in regards to the website. Anyone can fork, make changes, and submit a pull request (tech speak for "hey can you merge my changes into the official thing?") 

The github repo can be found here https://github.com/heatsynclabs/new-hsl

At least one reviewer in the organization that didn't submit the changes must approve the pull request. We have a dozen or so folks with that responsibility in the github organization. 

No one is gatekept from being part of this process, simply request to be added if you feel you are comfortable enough with git and code development.

Otherwise the standard practice is to submit a git issue, anyone can do this as it is a public repo. (there is a tab on the repo page for this) In a git issue you can submit a request for a feature, change, or bug fix. It will be seen by all who are contributors on that repo or anyone who visits the github page for it. Its like submitting a support ticket with a discussion thread.

Brett and I still have yet to address some of the requests from HYH (many were around accessibility, styling, and surfacing of certain information) but hope to get to it soon!

If github is too confusing, I'll accomodate feedback here or discord (please dont make me look at slack), but I would prefer we all get into the practices of open-source and do it on github. 

If anyone would like a learning/working session I will happily find time to sit down with you and teach you how to edit the site or submit issues/suggestions.

Also if you have photos or videos you think should be on the site please share them! Nate Caine had suggested we switch back to a standard carousal (while I made that photo collage feature I'm actually inclined to agree with him).

I dont want anyone to think we are stuck with this site in perpetuity or for another 10 years. I hope that we get into a cadence of iterating on it. Nothing at a hackerspace is ever set in stone. 

[Linda Krecker]

Very nice. I kinda like the collage thing, its different and gets notice.

Something else, I found the Membership Portal link, clicked on it, and went directly to the page that should be accessible only through password. Can you fix that please?

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[Jay McGavren]

> I found the Membership Portal link, clicked on it, and went directly to the page that should be accessible only through password.

Were you perhaps already logged in to members.heatsynclabs.org? If so, clicking on the "Member Portal" link at the bottom of heatsynclabs.org would take you to the logged-in version of members.heatsynclabs.org. Anyone who is logged out (or has never logged in) who clicks the "Member Portal" link will be taken to members.heatsynclabs.org, but the only menu entries across the top of the page will be:

Tools & Resources

Computers
Login
Membership Application

This is how it works on my machine, and I believe is as it should be.

-Jay

[Linda Krecker]

I don’t know. But could have been logged in. As long as it’s working correctly. 

Linda S K Brett, Ph.D.

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[David S Flores]

What's the deal with the photos? 

None are actually events that happened in the lab. 

We have hundreds of cool photos of activities actually happening in the lab.

[Sheldon McGee]

Currently, it uses the RSS feed of the last 40 items from Flickr. . . . I have a branch were I switch it to use the api and then only get "published" photos and randomise them how I thought it used to work. But then someone told me we can't get in there anymore and that we should be using Google Photos or something? Anyway, I'm happy to use better photos . . . I just need some clarification. And maybe with some access so I can test?

Sheldon

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[Rick Blake]

Does our Flickr store have photos of our current space?

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[Sheldon McGee]

I don't know if that was just for me but I have no idea. I barely look at them and am more concerned with making it functional (i.e. random images instead of just one set, not using endless bandwidth for swapping out images, presented well on desktop and mobile, etc) vs making sure it's a set of images that represents the space or the image we want to pretend the space is or whatever other such goal one might have by curating the images.

Sheldon

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[Brett Neese]

It would probably make sense to use our Google Photos instead of our Flickr. I am happy to collab on making that happen. Our initial goal was to emulate the way the old site behaved (which used the photos from Flickr) rather than changing too much at once.

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[Sheldon McGee]

Where are the google photos and how can I get access? Is it just a shared album?

Sheldon

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[Jay McGavren]

> Where are the google photos and how can I get access? Is it just a shared album?

Yes. I just now added you to the 2025 album. I don't think that will help with API access (that will probably require Google Workspaces admin access) but it should let you export photos for use somewhere else.

I'd recommend being selective; not every photo in that album will be ideal for use on our front page.

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[David S Flores]

We need to have an album created for this purpose to only include nice photos.

[Sheldon McGee]

If we can't use google photos via an api and ALSO it's not curated . . . I can't do anything with it. I personally have no interest in going through photos and figuring out what to use. And in general, it would be cool if we can use a tool, like flickr, to do that collection and curation so we can easily give access to community members who would like to do it and not force changes in github whenever there is something new to add. That's what we had with flickr . . . why can't we keep doing that? Are we past the free usage limit or something? Do we not have access? 

I looked to see if we could use Google Photos the same way but there are authentication issues because it lacks a public feed and a public api. "It's meant for family and friends, not for publishing on a website." I'm sure there is a way to hack it but I also don't think that's a good idea. 

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[Brett Neese]

What about pulling the photos from our social media into a curated collection somewhere? In the future we could even automate it so that our website is the first home for media which then gets cross posted elsewhere.

Brett

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[Jay McGavren]

> I personally have no interest in going through photos and figuring out what to use.

I do. And in 30 minutes of browsing I can create an album with a greater variety of photos than any single non-HeatSync-member is ever likely to see cycling through the front page of heatsynclabs.org .

> I looked to see if we could use Google Photos the same way but there are authentication issues because it lacks a public feed and a public api.

OK, so Google Photos can't be our final destination. But once we have identified what _is_, I can create a "heatsynclabs.org" shared album on Google Photos and move only high-quality photos into it. Then we can export it to Flickr or whoever is going to provide us with an API.

I personally think that having current, frequently-updated photos on heatsynclabs.org is only a feel-good point for current members. The public (the people we need to attract) neither know nor care about the difference between new and old photos.

But, yes, once we have an API host, new photos can be added on top of the old ones.

-Jay

[Jay McGavren]

> What about pulling the photos from our social media into a curated collection somewhere?

We don't have exclusively "photos" on social media, we have "images". To maximize use of screen space on social, I've been adding text, like in the attachment. Images like this would not look good as part of a collage.

I think the photos on the front of heatsynclabs.org should be hand-selected for the purpose. We can automate pulling from an album, but that album's contents need to be curated.

-Jay

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