let's try it this way:

[denise]

Who's got stuff for next week's update?

(See my cunning plan? This way I can have a place to note down all those "hey, mention this in the update --")

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[rebelsheart]

The DC-local Dreamwidth folks are coordinating a 1st anniversary meetup via dcmetro.

[zarhooie]

Support had a de-greening party earlier in the week so the Support board is, for all practical purposes, degreened. This means that it's time for another reminder to our dearest wittle users that the Support board is there for pretty much anything. Suggested uses:
- if you think something is broken
- if you think something is awesome (Feedback cat)
- if you can't find something
- if you can find something but can't figure out how to work it
- if there is anything at all on the site that is wrong or sub-optimal.

Suggestions vs Support request:
If you're not sure about whether something should go to Suggestions or to Support, submit it to Support and we can help you figure it out. We are awesomesauce, you see...

[denise]

http://erda.dreamwidth.org/44940.html

[pauamma]

volunteers has been sadly neglected. :-(

[yvi]

I suppose you want to mention http://changelog.dreamwidth.org/544529.html ?

[liv]

I made a non-fandom friending meme to showcase content and people on DW for those who aren't interested in media fandom, or who are interested in other things besides fandom. Some link love would be much appreciated!

[denise]

I saw this via reading page and was going to come and drop a link to myself to remind me! I should've trusted you to have already taken care of it. *G*

[wide_worlds_joy]

As a suggestion, only:

How about a script that will pull birthdays off the database and append that to the weekly email? Perhaps (if you are going to install virtual gifts like LJ has), do a thing where it gives you a little heart or cake next to their user ID on their birthday? And then you just say "Happy Birthday" just before the append.

And then do something similar for any other dates that are important, like anniversaries and so on...

Not to make more work, but you did ask for thoughts.

[denise]

That sounds like a really neat idea, actually! This post is more designed for people with DW-related news and announcements to let me know about them so I can include them in the weekly dw_news updates (which I totally need to write for this week and I am so late with it, auuugh, but it has been Fight With Tax Forms Week and I am going crazy), but I would totally love it if you could suggest this through our official suggestions process, because I think that could be a really awesome feature.

We do have "build a calendaring system" (so like what you mean with the anniversaries and the like, the system would notify you about things you told it to notify you about when that date rolls around) as one of our suggested projects for our Google Summer of Code application, so it is something we've been tossing around, but I don't think there's ever been a formal suggestion about it, and I'd love to see what would come up in the discussion as things people would want it to do.

[wide_worlds_joy]

Thanks. I was just brainstorming out loud. Thanks for pointing me to the right place.

It's posted now.

[denise]

Thanks! (I don't want to make it seem like I'm asking you to jump through hoops or whatever, it's just that I didn't want to lose it among all the rest of my inbox, which is where Things Go To Die. There's 671 notifications in my DW inbox, and let us not talk about what my email inbox looks like.)