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The Drupal Association has a malformed link to Agaric's site, so we'll using the opportunity to have a special welcome page.

Agaric Design Collective is yet another web design company out to change the world...

News flash: Microsoft is evil.

I hope that manufacturers do start making different hardware that skips the many Microsoft Vista content protection hoops, and the open source free software operating systems gain an advantage in hardware innovation on top of freedom and security.

1. In IE when someone trys to submit a group as a member the form is way down at the bottom of the page ? same for the when I submit a blog - looks like it gets squished out.
2. Could we have a the Media in the Media in a block?
3. Any suggestions on the front page set up now. I think we want to highlight a few ?Feature Campaigns? and then maybe have our posts featured. I guess I could just format the front page so that it lists some featured campaigns.

From http://www.tsne.org/site/c.ghLUK3PCLoF/b.3015841/k.F9A6/Articles__Electronic_Advocacy_Practices.htm

What is Online Advocacy?

It is not immediately intuitive how to use Putty to do shell stuff on ones own computer. There must be some ways of doing some things, because SCP exists for Windows.

putty to show own files

Dan will probably switch to Ubuntu before we get around to figuring this out.

GNU-Linux system administration

Resolution

Agaric wants an easy way to use CSS or modify some Drupal theme templates if necessary to make background colors only be as wide as the text, and not the whole page or column, in certain instances.

themes, theming Drupal, background behind text only
css text background color div width of text
only thing to try is to make the div inline

This is particularly for the add content, user, and other non-node pages on CarlitosNY.com and any theme that uses a photograph as the background.

The Austin Project for a Participatory Society (APPS) found a volunteer to work on their site for free.

Agaric's prices are competitive, but not that competitive.

(We had encouraged founder Marcus Denton and the group to engage with the local Drupal community through the Austin Drupal group meetups.)

On the Achieve Internet alleged blog, Jim Edgett writes about how with their help "Blue Shirt Nation Capitalizes with Drupal" (p.s. if the Agaric blog ever reads like a press release, slap us around a little in the comments, OK?)

http://www.achieveinternet.com/blog/blue-shirt-nation

Next time someone asks what "agaric" means I'm considering responding belligerently.

Our usual spiel is that it's chosen as a brandable name, hard consonants and fairly short, Agaric is a good name.

But next time I think I'll just say: "You don't ask what Kodak means, huh? You don't wonder what Coca-Cola means, do you? (Maybe you should...)"

2007 July 30th
Dan gives two years for cell phones to have videoconferencing.