Jarrod Nettles

@WorldEngineer I still have WP access.

@ChrisF Way to be fast with that.

@YannisRizos Bravo, sir.

@YannisRizos Gotcha.

@ChrisF Is the data site always that far behind??

@ChrisF You could write a query on data.stackexchange.com to look that up, technically

@psr And we can't always know "what people will close" - it only takes 3000 rep to issue a close vote; We have 256 users w/ vote to close powers - each with their own interpretation of what constitutes an on-topic question.

P.SE concerns itself with subjective material. Yes, we have guidelines determining what is on topic for this site but when dealing with the subjective it truly is open to each persons interpretation. We aren't as cut and dried as S.O. because they can more objective about what constitutes a proper question.

@psr Although even then, there's no guarantee you can get it into an On-Topic state.

@psr You should always try and edit first - sometimes a question is unsalvageable from the beginning but I've managed to turn a question around and save it from being closed before. It just takes some effort.

.....yeah

@Rachel Might defer some of the epic comment chats that take place too

The original question was surely off topic - I was half and half on whether to vote to close even after my edit.

@YannisRizos I guess I see where its off topic - but I think we're in the middle of a grey area with it.

@YannisRizos My fiancee is always doing the nose. She insists that I do the nose too. Drives me nuts.

@Rachel meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3075/…

i'll post them on meta sometime tonight

I'm compiling some statistics on our election - we may not have performed as badly as we thought.

@Rachel Definitely.

Dang - endowment of powers sure is fast.

@Rachel Looks right - Thomas and Yannis

@MarkTrapp Good call. The link disappeared so I was confused.

Where are the results posted at?

After awhile your mind gets so numb you just fall asleep without even realizing it.

@Ubermensch Awesome - I'll take a look at it this weekend. With this article, the two others, and mine being completed this weekend we'll soon have enough of a backlog to start publication!

@MarkTrapp Waiting on a backlog - as Rachel mentioned we have two completed and I'd like for another two to be done before start publishing. Sorry to everyone if I've haven't been around as much as I should have been - work's been pretty heavy this past week.

The blog is moving forward and I think I can say with confidence that we're only a few weeks away from having a bi-weekly publication cycle; I'm even more confident that it will turn into a weekly publication within a couple months. To everyone that is involved - keep up the great work!

The best part (in my mind) - today I logged into Trello and noticed that several idea cards went through creation, discussion, voting, and approval with zero involvement from myself. To me this is a mark of just how fantastic and involved the P.SE community is.

And with no sign of slowing down - if anything, activity is picking up speed. We have one article written and currently under proofreading and review, with another four already in the works.

Its been about two weeks since things got started - and in that time I'm proud to say that we have had 13 active volunteers taking part on the Trello board. There have been numerous discussions and collaboration and teamwork regarding ideas, topics, and writings.

State of the Blog - report

@Jae no problem - eventually I'll put together something on Meta about proofreading and etiquette

@Jae, @Morons, @Ubermensch You should be able to see Rachels article now

And the team is still small enough that it isn't difficult to keep tabs on what everyone is doing

@Morons I agree, which is why I'm doing this

couple minutes

*draft

please save everything as a drat

The only stipulation I have is to remind everyone - "Don't accidentally PUBLISH anything"

@Jae I think for the time being everyone is going to have Editor level access and up, at least until I can get more advanced ACL features figured out

i have...............7 months

i'm probably not qualified, honestly - there are much smarter people out there who have years of e-commerce work under their belt

no matter how much I wanted to - you don't throw code away

yeah.... its a blast; I've spent the past seven months refactoring this site from a gigantic procedural mess; One by one I've been converting the components into Object Oriented goodness

@Rachel I can proofread some tonight - I'm swamped here currently trying to wire up Fedex shipping to some custom e-commerce platform written in procedural PHP.

@Rachel Awesome work on getting an article ready so fast! Reading it now.

@Jae, @Ubermensch, @Morons - there is a permissions setting w/ the group of Contributors not being able to see posts they didn't write themselves. Wordpress' ACL system isn't fluid, so I can't grant specific rights to groups or even people. I'll have something this afternoon about what I can do.

@Jae @Ubermensch I'm not sure why - I'll look into it this morning and get back to you. Its probably a security setting that needs to be flipped.

@Morons Why not just use your name? Its good advertising. :)