Italian Ferragosta festival in Bronte.
6 pm start, first ‘set’ will be around 7 30-45 after the antipasto and then the next will be around 8 30 -9 after the mains.
There may also be a o sole mio sing along in there somewhere too 
O Sole Mio lyrics are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/’O_Sole_Mio
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Can this blog function as a message board, or do we need to add bbpress?
Jonathan, I’m not sure what you mean. WordPress is a blog engine that allows comments on any posting. So if any of us can write a post, and publish it in a private page, then it more or less works as a private message board for comments on that post. But I’ll have to investigate further, and the whole message-by-email thing is as yet a mystery to me. I’ll look into bbpress and other options.
I just had a look at the Editor, where all the styling happens – seems very easy to use. I’m probably the only person with a decent grasp of css so that should be my department I guess. The stuff you’ve imported from the existing site still has a lot of my style tags attached to it, so we’d have to strip all that out before we could go to work on the appearance. Jess is suggesting a total re-work and I’m in agreement, so a ground-up build is probably easier than an adaptation. We should get a design from Mish first, and the Planning and Musical Committees should brief us on what they want to include in the public pages. The private pages should be a group endeavour without resort to tedious planning. How does that sound? Just in passing I notice the calendar acts a bit wierd when you hover – maybe that needs an update patch?
I’ll have to make this page private real soon or get bbpress going.
I agree with all you said. Mish should do a photoshop design, get agreement from whoever cares, then you and I can turn it into HTML/CSS for the them page / templates. We shouldn’t need any CSS classes in the page content, but I wish the editor allowed us to use CSS classes as well as em, strong etc.
The calendar CSS is weird because I had to override table styling because the stupid subscribe/follow widget doesn’t have any classes at all (black text on transparent background) and I haven’t yet worked out how to disable it.
I guess my point is that if we are integrating both our private and public faces in the one application, we need both a private and a public blog postings and comments. The default for the regular choir member should be private, to avoid indiscretion. I notice you seemed to have achieved something like the right divide with the Sidebar category. I suggest we have in fact 3 blog categories, public main, public sidebar, and private. So we’d do everything privately, but admins would release some of it into the two public domains. there was an instance last week where both Deborah and I asked the google group for timetable details on gigs. We could have got that info from the same place the public does if we had this thing properly integrated and working. One thing I’ve noticed with the Google group is the search function doesn’t work very well, and that coupled with the human tendency to talk about subject A under the heading of subject B (as we are in fact doing now!) makes finding information there quite tricky.
What? Isn’t this all about the ferragosta gig?
Yes to all you said, but let’s not get too caught up in the technology. All is possible, let’s just decide what the ideal site would have for the choir and the public and see how much we can do easily.
bbpress is now installed and operational with single-signon for both wordpress and bbpress. You can get to it at http://voices.bisshop.com/bbpress/ and you should have full admin rights. I haven’t played with it yet, have no idea about private/public etc, so have fun!
The bad news is that bbpress does not provide the ability to respond to a topic by email, nor start a new topic by email, and its ability to notify members of new posts is limited. There aren’t any plugins that significantly improve this. Back to the drawing board.