Re: [directory-discuss] adding hours countdown to the main page

[Svetlana A. Tkachenko]

Yes? No? Opinions? Problems? I think this could be useful.

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Svetlana A. Tkachenko
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"Svetlana A. Tkachenko" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
> > Join us each week for the Friday Free Software Directory IRC meeting! For 
> > details and time, check the FSF blog.
> 
> Silly timezones - I even went to the blog a couple times this year, but
> didn't figure out what the time should be.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Countdown
> 
> Can we do something like this at the FSF Directory main page to show
> people how many days and hours are left until the next meeting? This
> requires doing something like this:
> 
> 1) installing the Lua extension
> (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto)
> 2) copying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Countdown
> 3) copying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Countdown
> 4) inserting something like
> {{countdown|year=2015|month=06|day=01|hour=??|event=the next FSF
> directory meeting}} to the Main Page, where month and day are fixed as
> appropriate, and the hour is in UTC+0 (didn't check - this is per the
> template documentation, though).
> 5) having someone update the day and month in (4) every week
> 
> Svetlana
>