I have ~150 photos, and I'd imagine that the other 9 members have ~200 between them. We should collect them somewhere and select what should be added to the site.
Also, it would be really nice if we could use the nice group shots from BSSL and LCLS to spruce up the website. I have the LCLS one, and I think Julia has the BSSL one.
I made a Google Drive folder and shared it with you all; post pictures there, someone can sort through them, etc. and find what should be added.
At least I think I shared it with everyone...
Photos from Vittorio, Tarini, and Julia are on Google Drive; Near Ben emailed me the few he had.
It would seem that's all of the photos, since everyone else has denied taking any.
Time to figure out how to add them to the site.
As far as I know those are the only people who took anything of importance anyway.
I think you mentioned a pelican add-on that could embed albums? That would be nice, otherwise a link to a page with a lot of pictures and nothing else is fine.
Also if we could put a nice group photo on the about page that would be awesome. We have some from SLAC, Space Science, Monterey Bay, Mystery Spot, and ALS. Perhaps Pelican has a slideshow embed thing? Otherwise there are other cute ways to do it - roll an RNG when someone visits the page and then select a picture to show based on that, or make it change when you click/mouse in, or else just put up one photo.
One photo is easiest but no fun haha. Do whatever you feel like doing with this.
I worked on this today!
The gallery plugin contains some example HTML for a template that is kind of basic (it is literally just a list of thumbnails that redirect to the real image). But it works, so it's what we've got right now. (It seems to be more about providing an easy way for pelican and its templates to understand a gallery; writing good gallery templates that isn't just a list of thumbnails seems to be an exercise left to the reader...)
I may actually get rid of the thumbnails altogether (or at least make them bigger). We'll see.
Also, I found a use for our ACM AFS space! Pictures are too large to fit in the repository, and they shouldn't be put into version control anyway, so we can stick it in AFS and pull it when building the site.
So... I need to do that before I can deploy the site. And hopefully switch to rsync-based deployment so we don't have to sync a gigabyte's worth of pictures with oxygen every time the site gets rebuilt.
So there's actually an impressive amount of work left to do before this is ready to go. But it has begun, anyway.
...and now for the moment of truth... pushing commits!
BUG CLOSED
NICE. Interesting that the thumbnails are sideways and the actual pictures are not. (That's not a problem, I was just surprised haha)
Yeah, I don't understand why that happens either. Maybe if a differently sized thumbnail was used? Oh well, not a huge deal.
