STP/New Media Teleconference

[Patrad Fischroy]

The thing with SPOT is that it has to send as well as receive. I wouldn't have thought that this would be an issue either. Pretty scary though if a PLB type device doesn't work well in the mountains. If it's bad in the Whites what is it like in other more remote locations? Not much of a safety net...

Came across an interesting device today
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/daily.../03/news2.html

Similar to spot, same limitations as it uses what appears to be a cell phone signal to transmit out. So it would be of limited use in the Whites or other back country locations. But so "Dick Tracy"

[mtruman]

The conference call was great today. Lot's of good ideas and discussion. Really looking forward to seeing the new site soon and working through some of the other ideas.

I threw together a document with a bunch of thoughts on ways to improve the fundraising aspects of STP both related to new media and in general which I sent to Scot prior to today's call. I added a few new items at the bottom since I sent it as well. The doc is viewable in Google Docs here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd88tnfb_15hcpmvhct. All comments and input welcome.

[BlueDog]

The conference call was great today. Lot's of good ideas and discussion. Really looking forward to seeing the new site soon and working through some of the other ideas.

2nd that! It sounds like the new STP site will be worth the wait, an lots of good ideas came out of the call!

[CHRIS]

That was alot of great ideas Mark. Hopefully some of them will be available as soon as the site opens up. I know for one I had a hard time trying to figure out how and where to try to get donations so anything that can help would be great. Keep up the good work everybody and hopefully we will be seeing it soon.

[hobbes]

Following up on the call yesterday, there was a request to access one's pledge via an RSS feed. Will the format below work for those interested in this? And should the number of pledges be limited to the last ten, or would you prefer that all be included? The <item>s will be displayed in reverse chronological order.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
	<channel>
		<title>Seek the Peak Hiker Pledges</title>
		<link>http://www.seekthepeak.org/view.php?p=PageName</link>
		<description></description>
		<language>en-us</language>
		<ttl>60</ttl>

		<item>
			<title>Tue, 3 Feb - Sponsor Display Name</title>
			<link>http://www.seekthepeak.org/view.php?p=PageName</link>
			<description>Sponsor Comments go here</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:23:00 EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.seekthepeak.org/view.php?p=PageName</guid>
		</item>

		<item>
			...
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

[BlueDog]

I don't think you need the date in the <title> field since the PubDate should show up.

I don't see the donation amount. I'd like:

<Sponsor Name> - <Amount>
<Message>
<Date>

[hobbes]

I thought there was something missing Below is the revised version.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
	<channel>
		<title>Seek the Peak Hiker Pledges</title>
		<link>http://www.seekthepeak.org/view.php?p=PageName</link>
		<description></description>
		<language>en-us</language>
		<ttl>60</ttl>

		<item>
			<title>Sponsor Display Name - $10</title>
			<link>http://www.seekthepeak.org/view.php?p=PageName</link>
			<description>Sponsor Comments go here</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:23:00 EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.seekthepeak.org/view.php?p=PageName</guid>
		</item>

		<item>
			...
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

[BlueDog]

looks good to me!

[mtruman]

Following up on the call yesterday, there was a request to access one's pledge via an RSS feed. Will the format below work for those interested in this? And should the number of pledges be limited to the last ten, or would you prefer that all be included? The <item>s will be displayed in reverse chronological order.

Thanks for getting right on this! Looks good to me too with the last updates. I'd like to have the entire list of pledges (or you could make that optional through a parameter).

[hobbes]

RSS feed is now live. Look for the feed icon next to "My Sponsors" on your hiker page.

The last 10 pledges will be displayed. To get the full list add "&n=0" (without quotes) to the end of the feed URL. For example:
http://www.seekthepeak.org/rss.xml?p=ecomalley&n=0

Enjoy!