Community Page Updates + New Meetups Page

[sandraor]

I need some help to finish the new Meetups page. It's using Google Maps for Rails: https://github.com/apneadiving/Google-Maps-for-Rails

To do

Code

• Show all groups in the meetup list. The meetups list has 5 groups (pulled from meetups.yml). It is set up to show 3 columns with 1 group per column, so the remaining 2 groups are currently hidden. Can we still have 3 columns but include all of the groups (for example, show Europe directly under South America)? (@andrewbranch)
• Pull marker and info window information from meetups.yml: Latitude, longitude, location, organizer name (can be multiple), organizer image (can be multiple), url. (@lzcabrera & @solsberg)
• Link list items with their markers. See "Sidebar" example on http://apneadiving.github.io/. Add an "active" class to the list items when they are active (@lzcabrera)
• Initially set the map to the user's location. If location detection is disabled, just show the map as usual. See https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/map-geolocation (@wifelette)
• Customize marker cluster icons. I just need a place to add a URL and customize the font colour. See https://github.com/apneadiving/Google-Maps-for-Rails/wiki/Customized-Cluster-Icons (@alexclarkofficial)
• Clean up the current javascript. I'm not sure if was put in the right places. (@yaymukund)
• When relevant, have organizer data pulled in directly from Meetup.com (@lzcabrera)

Content

• Fill in any missing information (the "Start your own meetup" section in particular). (@wifelette)

Names in parenthesis indicate the tasks have been claimed. Then we'll check them off once the work is complete and merged back in.

[wifelette]

This is awesome :D

I'll work on the missing info section content.

Hoping we can get some help here from some others...

[wycats]

@sandraor Do you think you could rebase this PR? It seems to have diverged somewhat from master, and I'm not personally sure how to resolve all of the conflicts.

[sandraor]

@wycats Sure — it's up to date now.

[owain]

Since this section includes Wellington, New Zealand should it maybe be Australasia instead of Australia?

[wifelette]

How about South Pacific?

[martinstannard]

Oceania seems the correct term for the region.

[andrewbranch]

Is anyone already working on the meetups group columns? Thinking about trying to tackle that. Would a Middleman extension be the best place to do some logic to try to balance the groups into even columns?

[wifelette]

@andrewbranch I can't comment on the Middleman bits... but the task is all yours, thanks for the help :D

[wifelette]

@sandraor OKAY! It's way beyond my bedtime, but I got excited about making progress on this :p

My latest PR tackles several of the ToDos.

Right now, the map is doing the geolocation (assuming you give the browser permission to detect), but there's only one marker on it, Atlanta. Looks like you hardcoded that in, yes?

Question being, what's the plan for getting them all in there? Do we need to add lat/long parameters to the yaml file? Same question RE: organizer info—looks like you hardcoded it for now. What's the plan now that we're ready to add everyone else's data?

Also, something strange that I was only able to repro a couple times, so I'm unsure if it's still a problem right now. The Ember logo (in the nav) was jumping up in size ever so slightly only on this new Meetup page... let me know if you see it. If not, since I was only able to repro intermittently, we can drop until we see it again :p

[wifelette]

Current status, FYI:
@wycats added a bunch of comments/suggestions to sandraor#11. Once that's all sorted, we should be good to merge back in :)

@lzcabrera Poke me or @wycats if you have questions about his questions :p I'll make sure he responds.

[lzcabrera]

@wifelette i've incorporated @wycats suggestions in sandraor#11.

I think it is ready to be merged back in :)

[wifelette]

Awesome!

@sandraor I'll try and get @wycats and/or @rwjblue to do a final pass on the final product and give us a thumbs up.

ETA on the Resources page we're working on? I'm around via chat and Trello to sort out any details on that :)

TL;DR: this is good to go/be merged (pending review) but we'll need to wait until we have the resources page + affiliated YAML file data to merge this. Hopefully it'll be pretty quick, and I don't anticipate any other changes to the page in the meantime, so we should stay current/able to be automatically merged.

[sandraor]

Is it possible to change the zoom levels of the map for different situations? When location detection is on, it's at zoom level 8 and centred on the user's location. However, when location detection is turned off, the map is centred in the middle of the ocean at the same zoom level, so it looks entirely blue. If it's possible to specify, these are the ideal zoom levels:

Default zoom level: 2
Location detection enabled: 8
Pin selected: 14

[lzcabrera]

@sandraor I'm looking into the zoom levels and have a fix almost in place, I will be adding it to sandraor#13
While working on this fix I noticed the cluster images are returning a 404:

/images/meetups/map-cluster-1.png
If this is an an asset from a gem, add sprockets.import_asset 'map-cluster-1.png' to your config.rb.

I'm not sure what's going on here. The cluster images were working a few days ago and the images are in the right place.

[lzcabrera]

@sandraor checkout sandraor#13, I added the zoom levels fix

Anyone know how to fix the 404 errors on /images/meetups/map-cluster-1.png and /images/meetups/map-cluster-2.png?

When typing the path to those images on the browser, ie: http://localhost:4567/images/meetups/map-cluster-1.png I get:
"If this is an an asset from a gem, add sprockets.import_asset 'map-cluster-1.png' to your config.rb."

[yaymukund]

@lzcabrera I checked out lzcabrera/meetup-list, ran bundle && bundle exec middleman and visited http://0.0.0.0:4567/meetups and it fetches both files without issue.

[lzcabrera]

Thanks for checking @yaymukund. I was still seeing the issues after running bundle && bundle exec middleman. I restarted my terminal and now it is working fine :)

[wifelette]

Just merged this back in and it's live! Woot!

Big thanks and super congrats to everyone who was learning the ropes on this one, especially @sandraor. Y'all did a great job, and I hope you'll stick around and help with future projects too <3

[owain]

Just wondering if anyone is working on the resources page? Is there a design or plan for it?

[wifelette]

Blocked on me, sad face :( Too much EmberConf!

@sandraor has ideas for the design and I'm needing to get her the content plan. Will be getting back to it as soon as I get everything settled again!

[owain]

pfft...excuses! 😜

No, totally understandable! Let me know if I can help. And great job with EmberConf, loved it.