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diff --git a/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown b/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown index e50ac93b6..88c0d5375 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tags: - whatdotheyknow --- -Last week I travelled to Berlin to meet with [@dcabo](http://twitter.com/#!/dcabo), [@helen_access](http://twitter.com/#!/helen_access) and [@KerstiRu](http://twitter.com/#!/KerstiRu) of [Access Info Europe](http://www.access-info.org/) and Valon Brestovci of [Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova](http://www.flossk.org/) (FLOSSK) to discuss and plan collaboration on the first Alaveteli-driven websites: _AskTheEu_ and _Informata Zyrtare_. +Last week I travelled to Berlin to meet with [@dcabo](https://twitter.com/#!/dcabo), [@helen_access](https://twitter.com/#!/helen_access) and [@KerstiRu](https://twitter.com/#!/KerstiRu) of [Access Info Europe](http://www.access-info.org/) and Valon Brestovci of [Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova](http://www.flossk.org/) (FLOSSK) to discuss and plan collaboration on the first Alaveteli-driven websites: _AskTheEu_ and _Informata Zyrtare_. {% include image.html url="/assets/img/foamthing.jpg" description="Open hardware milling machine at OKCon" width="223" %} diff --git a/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown b/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown index 0646e26d1..be98b6c39 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ A successful Alaveteli website is nothing without its volunteers. These are pe [WhatDoTheyKnow](http://www.whatdotheyknow.com) has an amazing volunteer pool of around six or seven people, of whom about three are active at any one time (it varies depending on their other commitments). They are dedicated, committed, knowledgeable and enthusiastic, and the website quite simply wouldn't function without them. -So, how did WhatDoTheyKnow recruit this team of experts? I spoke with the original author of WhatDoTheyKnow, [Francis Irving](http://twitter.com/#!/frabcus), to find out. +So, how did WhatDoTheyKnow recruit this team of experts? I spoke with the original author of WhatDoTheyKnow, [Francis Irving](https://twitter.com/#!/frabcus), to find out. >At mySociety, we had a pool of people on our mailing lists who had been waiting for years for something to get involved in. We found a way early on of letting people contribute really easily, and this became a route to finding volunteers who were really good: diff --git a/_posts/2012-05-15-8-steps-to-understanding-and-implementing-alaveteli.markdown b/_posts/2012-05-15-8-steps-to-understanding-and-implementing-alaveteli.markdown index cfa8c15b9..60fcb4ca5 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-05-15-8-steps-to-understanding-and-implementing-alaveteli.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-05-15-8-steps-to-understanding-and-implementing-alaveteli.markdown @@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ Here, in eight points, is the key to understanding why Alaveteli has excited adv * The Alaveteli code has been translated into 8 languages. -[Dolores Lavalle Cobo](http://twitter.com/dololavalle), a lawyer and specialist in access to public information, says Alaveteli revolutionises the concept of what it means to share information, and creates a change of mentality in the people. +[Dolores Lavalle Cobo](https://twitter.com/dololavalle), a lawyer and specialist in access to public information, says Alaveteli revolutionises the concept of what it means to share information, and creates a change of mentality in the people. She’s not exaggerating. This software is a testament to how technology, enthusiasm and a commitment to transparency can create a tool without limits for citizen participation. -Meanwhile, public policy consultant [Germain Stalker](http://twitter.com/stalkerGer) agrees with this definition: "Alaveteli universalises access to information, allowing the public documents held by the State to acquire real and tangible value." +Meanwhile, public policy consultant [Germain Stalker](https://twitter.com/stalkerGer) agrees with this definition: "Alaveteli universalises access to information, allowing the public documents held by the State to acquire real and tangible value." Nothing is more certain than this. Demanding transparency is a task for the people, and the platform has awakened interest in what governments do, as never before. diff --git a/_posts/2012-06-20-the-new-bootstrap-admin-theme.markdown b/_posts/2012-06-20-the-new-bootstrap-admin-theme.markdown index 0feac3e78..00343fb66 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-06-20-the-new-bootstrap-admin-theme.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-06-20-the-new-bootstrap-admin-theme.markdown @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ One of the major new features in the latest release of Alaveteli is a more attra {% include image.html url="/assets/img/oldnew.png" description="Admin interface before and after" width="643" %} -The theme was started at AlaveteliCon by [@wombleton](https://twitter.com/#!/wombleton). It's based on Twitter's [Bootstrap framework](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/), a CSS-and-javascript foundation for layout and styling of websites. It tries to collapse the large amounts of data often found on a single page into smaller chunks that can be scanned more easily. +The theme was started at AlaveteliCon by [@wombleton](https://twitter.com/#!/wombleton). It's based on Twitter's [Bootstrap framework](https://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/), a CSS-and-javascript foundation for layout and styling of websites. It tries to collapse the large amounts of data often found on a single page into smaller chunks that can be scanned more easily. When I started integrating the new code into the Alaveteli core, I realised that this might be quite a big and potentially unwanted step for users who are used to the old interface. So I moved all the interface changes [into their own theme](https://github.com/mysociety/adminbootstraptheme), which can be installed or uninstalled by changing [a line in the configuration file](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/2e69a53ff5c3e15dd5a7a0fcb5f8fcedf3d6f778/config/general.yml-example#L37). diff --git a/_posts/2012-06-21-new-feature-following-and-the-wall.markdown b/_posts/2012-06-21-new-feature-following-and-the-wall.markdown index df6bb6ef5..a776a4648 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-06-21-new-feature-following-and-the-wall.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-06-21-new-feature-following-and-the-wall.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ title: 'New feature: "following" and the "wall"' wordpress_id: 369 --- -You've always been able to subscribe to email alerts about requests. However, since WhatDoTheyKnow (the predecessor to Alaveteli) was first conceived, [certain](http://www.facebook.com) [well-known](http://twitter.com) websites have become the primary way many of us interact with the internet. So we decided to use some of their technology. Instead of subscribing to alerts, you now follow topics. And when you follow a topic, by default this still means you get email; but you can turn email alerts off, and choose to view updates on a new "wall" area. +You've always been able to subscribe to email alerts about requests. However, since WhatDoTheyKnow (the predecessor to Alaveteli) was first conceived, [certain](http://www.facebook.com) [well-known](https://twitter.com) websites have become the primary way many of us interact with the internet. So we decided to use some of their technology. Instead of subscribing to alerts, you now follow topics. And when you follow a topic, by default this still means you get email; but you can turn email alerts off, and choose to view updates on a new "wall" area. Here's the _"Follow"_ button: |