Update meeting notes

fixes spacing on frontpage between buttons so they don't touch
disables stale alert
fixes rsms's titles
add some promo to my stream as well

assets/js/main.js

@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@
     const modal = document.querySelector(`#${target}`);
     if (modal) {
       btn.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
-        toggle_modal(modal, true);
+        if (e.target.tagName !== 'A')
+          toggle_modal(modal, true);
       });
     }
   });
@@ -77,10 +78,36 @@
   document.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
     if (e.key === "Escape") {
       var modal_id = body.getAttribute("modal");
-      if(modal_id) toggle_modal(document.querySelector(`#${modal_id}`), false);
+      if (modal_id) toggle_modal(document.querySelector(`#${modal_id}`), false);
     }
   });
 
+  // timelines
+  // ----------------------------------------
+  const updateTimeline = (timeline) => {
+    const day_target = timeline.getAttribute("data-day-target");
+    timeline.querySelectorAll(".day-events:not(.hidden)").forEach((day_events) => { day_events.classList.toggle("hidden", true); });
+    timeline.querySelector(`[data-day-title="${day_target}"]`).classList.toggle("hidden", false);
+    timeline.querySelectorAll(`.day_listing.active`).forEach((listing) => {
+      listing.classList.toggle("inactive", true);
+      listing.classList.toggle("active", false);
+    });
+    var new_active = timeline.querySelector(`.day_listing[data-day-target="${day_target}"]`);
+    new_active.classList.toggle("active", true);
+    new_active.classList.toggle("inactive", false);
+  };
+
+  document.querySelectorAll(".timeline_grid_container").forEach((timeline) => {
+    const days = timeline.querySelector(".day-listing-container");
+    days.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
+      const day_target = e.target.getAttribute("data-day-target");
+      if (day_target) {
+        timeline.setAttribute("data-day-target", day_target);
+        updateTimeline(timeline);
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
   // Swipers
   // ----------------------------------------
   const swipers = document.querySelectorAll(".swiper-slider");

assets/scss/custom.scss

@@ -50,16 +50,26 @@
 }
 
 .testimonial a,
-.img_grid_container a {
+.img_grid_container a,
+.timeline_grid_container a {
     color: var(--meetups-color) !important;
     text-decoration: none;
 }
 
 .testimonial a:hover,
-.img_grid_container a:hover {
+.img_grid_container a:hover,
+.timeline_grid_container a {
     text-decoration: underline;
 }
 
+// .day_listing.active {
+
+// }
+
+.day_listing.inactive {
+    color: rgb(163, 163, 163);
+}
+
 .modal-bg a {
     color: var(--meetups-color) !important;
     text-decoration: none;
@@ -71,7 +81,7 @@
 
 .frontpage-stream-container {
     max-height: calc(75vh);
-    min-height: 36rem;
+    min-height: 34rem;
     aspect-ratio: 16 / 9;
 }
 
@@ -104,3 +114,10 @@
     background-color: #fff3cd;
     color: #856404;
 }
+
+// Disable the horrendous open and close quotes on blockquote content
+blockquote p:first-of-type {
+    &::before, &::after {
+        content: "" !important;
+    }
+}

config/_default/menus.en.toml

@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ weight = 4
 parent = "Explore"
 name = "Discord"
 url = "https://discord.com/invite/txcCe8vyQ6"
-weight = 1
+weight = 3
 
 [[main]]
 parent = "Explore"
 name = "Meetups"
 url = "/meetups"
-weight = 2
+weight = 1
 
 [[main]]
 parent = "Explore"
 name = "Members"
 url = "https://donorbox.org/handmadecities"
-weight = 3
+weight = 2
 
 [[main]]
 name = "About"

config/_default/params.toml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ google_adsense = ""     # example: ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 # custom script on header, example: custom_script= "<script>console.log(\"Hello World\")</script>"
 custom_script = ""
 # copyright
-copyright = "© 2024 Handmade Cities LLC"
+copyright = "© 2025 Handmade Cities LLC"
 
 # Preloader
 # preloader module: https://github.com/gethugothemes/hugo-modules/tree/master/components/preloader
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ show_categories = true
 # announcement
 # announcement module: https://github.com/gethugothemes/hugo-modules/tree/master/components/announcement
 [announcement]
-enable = true
+enable = false
 expire_days = 7
 content = "Handmade Seattle Nov 20th - 22nd, 2024. [Buy Tickets](/tickets) now!"
 

content/english/_index.md

@@ -8,27 +8,33 @@ banner:
   image: "/images/hmc_spread.png"
   hide_banner_img: true
   live_banner:
-    enable: true
+    enable: false
     use_twitch: true
     use_youtube: false
     title: "Handmade Seattle 2024"
-    title_class: "text-black dark:text-white mb-4"
+    title_class: "seattle-color mb-4"
     twitch_channel: "abnercoimbre"
     youtube_channel_id: "UCkiOutDcOG0KRLQc71Pd-Fg" # found at: https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced, is currently yt/handmadecities
-    section_class: "pb-24"
+    section_class: "pb-36 row mb-4"
     buttons_class: "p-2 px-3"
     buttons_row_class: "mt-4 text-white gap-4"
     buttons:
-      - title: "Join Private Chat"
-        link: "https://chat.handmadecities.com"
+      - title: "<i class='fa fa-ticket'></i> Tickets"
+        link: "/tickets"
         class: "btn seattle-bg"
+      - title: "<i class='fa fa-comments'></i> Chat"
+        link: "https://chat.handmadecities.com"
+        class: "btn bg-green-500"
+      - title: "<i class='fa fa-gift'></i> Donate"
+        link: "https://donorbox.org/handmadecities"
+        class: "btn bg-red-700"
       - title: "Twitch"
         link: "https://twitch.tv/abnercoimbre"
         class: "btn meetups-bg"
         icon_only: true
         icon: "fa-brands fa-twitch"
       - title: "YouTube"
-        link: "https://youtube.com/handmadecities"
+        link: "https://youtube.com/@handmadecities"
         class: "btn bg-[#ff0000]"
         icon_only: true
         icon: "fa-brands fa-youtube"
@@ -53,11 +59,11 @@ banner:
     icon: "fa fa-ticket pl-2"
     class: "btn text-white seattle-bg"
   button2:
-    enable: false
-    label: "Twitch"
-    link: "https://twitch.tv/abnercoimbre"
-    icon: "fab fa-twitch pl-2"
-    class: "btn bg-purple-700 dark:bg-purple-700 dark:text-white hover:bg-purple-800 mt-6 text-white"
+    enable: true
+    label: "Donate"
+    link: "https://donorbox.org/handmadecities"
+    icon: "fa fa-gift pl-2"
+    class: "btn bg-red-700 dark:bg-red-700 dark:text-white hover:bg-red-800 mt-6 ml-2 text-white"
 
 # Features
 features:
@@ -88,33 +94,6 @@ features:
       label: "About Us"
       link: "/about"
 
-  - title: "Partnered with Handmade Network"
-    title_class: "text-white mb-8"
-    image: ""
-    side: "center"
-    bg_img: 
-      parallax: true
-      img: "/images/devon_starfield.png"
-    transition:
-      start: "/images/transition.svg"
-      start_class: "mb-5 transform"
-      start_color: "#fff"
-      start_dark: "/images/transition2.svg"
-      start_dark_color: "#150e31"
-      end: "/images/transition.svg"
-      end_class: "mt-20 transform -scale-y-100 -scale-x-100"
-      end_color: "#fff"
-      end_dark: "/images/transition2.svg"
-      end_dark_color: "#150e31"
-    bg_color: "#0a0a0a"
-    content: "The Handmade Network is your online community and go-to hub when there's no in-person events. Participate in jams, be awed by software projects and enjoy a huge Discord community."
-    content_class: "text-white mt-12 px-12 pb-12 pt-24 bg-[rgba(0,0,0,0.5)] rounded-lg"
-    button:
-      enable: enable
-      class: "meetups-bg dark:meetups-bg"
-      label: "Network"
-      link: "https://handmade.network"
-
   - title: "Companies Value Handmade"
     title_class: "text-center mt-16 mb-12"
     image: ""

content/english/about/index.md

@@ -16,19 +16,19 @@ features:
       img: "/images/starry_night.png"
     grid:
       - title: "Sponsor-free tech events"
-        content: "We reject sponsorship deals because we must be allowed to criticize anyone’s software. Accepting “free” bags of money destroys our ability to change the industry."
+        content: "**100% indie.** We reject sponsorship because we must be allowed to criticize anyone’s software. Accepting “free” bags of money destroys our ability to change the software industry."
         color: "#FC6D36"
         content_class: "text-white"
       - title: "An obligation to software quality"
-        content: "The industry’s incentives are about imposing control and fleecing customers. We’ve abandoned the user’s quality of experience, agency over their software, and privacy."
+        content: "The industry’s incentives erode ownership to extract rent from consumers. We’ve abandoned the love for our craft, the user's quality of experience, and their right to privacy."
         color: "#A456EA"        
         content_class: "text-white"
       - title: "Self-host wherever possible"
-        content: "Anything essential to our conferences is processed in-house. E.g. When you register for an event we personally handle the process to generate your ticket—removing spying middlemen like Ticketmaster."
+        content: "Essential services for our conferences and meetups are processed in-house. For example, our servers personally generate your conference ticket—removing spying middlemen like Ticketmaster."
         color: "#6B8EE8"        
         content_class: "text-white"
-      - title: "Healthy expansion"
-        content: "As a [polyglot](https://vimeo.com/661662233), our founder intends to expand even outside the United States. Since we wish to retain independence, however, we’re only growing through increased audience support."
+      - title: "Direct funding approach"
+        content: "We grow through obvious means, funded primarily through ticket sales, followed by independent donations and fixed-rate job booth rentals: straightforward, mom-and-pop transactions."
         color: "#60E3C4"                
         content_class: "text-white"
 
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ features:
     title_class: "text-white -mt-2"
     subtitle: "Founder"
     subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]"
-    image: "/images/people/abner_2022_512.webp"
-    image_class: "rounded-full"
+    image: "/images/people/abner_2024.png"
     section_class: "text-white"
     transition:
       start: "/images/transition3.svg"
@@ -48,7 +47,42 @@ features:
       start_dark_color: "black"
     bg_color: "#060610"
     content_class: "mt-4"
-    content: "[Abner](https://abnercoimbre.com) is the founder of Handmade Cities and sole organizer for our conferences.<br>His professional story began when he left Puerto Rico for a yearlong internship at NASA. Abner was mentored on how they make software and after winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, he published an essay on their programming philosophy ([featured](https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/) in the news.) He was promoted to launch control engineers.<br><br>Abner also started the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work for Jonathan Blow multiple years and then Cyan Worlds to help ship the [Myst remake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/).<br><br>His concern of declining standards—both ethical and technical—pushed Abner to run tech conferences full-time, with ironclad conviction that we need independent organizers more than ever."
+    content: "[Abner](https://abner.page) is founder of Handmade Cities and the sole organizer for our conferences.<br><br>At a young age he was mentored by Kennedy Space Center on how they make software. After winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, Abner penned an essay on their programming philosophy: featured in the [news](https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/). He was subsequently promoted to launch control engineer.<br><br>Abner started the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work under Jonathan Blow for several years and finally Cyan Worlds to ship the [Myst remake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/).<br><br>Now in his early thirties, Abner's mounting concern of declining software standards—both ethical and technical—pushed him to run conferences and grow meetups full-time. (He still loves [programming](https://terminal.click) though.)"
+
+  - title: "Our Advisory Board"
+    title_class: "mb-20 text-center text-white"
+    image: ""
+    side: "center"
+    content_class: "mt-16 mb-12"
+    bg_img: 
+      parallax: true
+      img: "/images/starry_night.png"
+    grid:
+      - title: "Zac Nowicki"
+        content: "Tech lead at [Kagi](https://kagi.com) Search."
+        color: "#9B8EE8"
+        content_class: "text-white"
+      - title: "Mary Bush"
+        content: "Seattle indie developer, formerly in logistics/healthcare tech."
+        color: "#9B8EE8"        
+        content_class: "text-white"
+      - title: "Jon Stevens"
+        content: "Senior game developer at Bitshift Entertainment: new studio by Notch, creator of Minecraft."
+        color: "#9B8EE8"        
+        content_class: "text-white"
+      - title: "Matt Nite"
+        content: "Organizer at [Software You Can Love](https://softwareyoucanlove.ca): plus meetups, workshops, and more."
+        color: "#9B8EE8"                
+        content_class: "text-white"
+      - title: "Unlisted Member"
+        content: "Former co-worker and colleague of Abner's. Values privacy but is willing to share more when requested."
+        color: "#9B8EE8"                
+        content_class: "text-white"
+      - title: "NASA Observer"
+        content: "Unofficial observer role (no voting power.) Hardware engineer at NASA. Involvement is anonymous given the current climate."
+        color: "#9B8EE8"                
+        content_class: "text-white"
+    notice: "**Note:** The advisory board is comprised of volunteers. Member's opinions are their own, not their employer's."
 
   - title: "Morgan Rammell"
     title_class: "text-white"
@@ -74,7 +108,7 @@ features:
     content: "Phil Homan, who goes by [PH Test](https://phtest.tv/), is a Seattle developer with a knack for multidisciplinary work: live-performance visuals, experimental programs, games, and video production—often with tools he made himself!<br>
 
   Phil joined Handmade Cities to help Abner with matters related to streaming, recording, and A/V support at the conferences."
-  - title: "Devon ([tek256](https://tek256.com))"
+  - title: "Devon aka [tek256](https://tek256.com)"
     title_class: "text-white"
     subtitle: "Editor"
     subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]"
@@ -83,5 +117,16 @@ features:
     image_class: "rounded-full"
     content_class: ""
     section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white"
-    content: "Devon is a guy who makes things."  
----
+    content: "Devon is a guy who makes things.<br>(Like a PSX-style souls game in C on [stream](https://twitch.tv/tek256))"  
+
+  - title: "Mr. Perkins"
+    title_class: "text-white"
+    subtitle: "Secretary"
+    subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]"
+    bg_color: "#060610"
+    image: "/images/people/perkins.png"
+    image_class: "rounded-full"
+    content_class: ""
+    section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white"
+    content: "Mr. Perkins is our year round part-time assistant, usually plowing through the backlog of texts, emails and invoices."  
+---

content/english/board-meeting-20250318/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+---
+title: "Advisory Board Meeting"
+meta_title: "Board's Meeting Notes"
+layout: "single"
+description: "Advisory Board Meeting Notes - 18 Mar 2025"
+draft: false
+---
+#### Meeting Notes - 18 Mar 2025  
+
+**AGENDA**:
+
+No agenda set, first meeting
+
+---
+
+**DISCUSSION ITEMS**
+
+1. **Handmade Boston (HMB): Aug 1-2 (Fri-Sat)**
+
+- Sister conference to Seattle
+- No more online track: No more online tickets or Twitch stream for Boston
+- Goal is to become the "fully offline" counterpart
+- Return to original technical lectures format (sans homework)
+- Boston should have job booth rentals too
+
+**2025 Target:** Two-hundred in-person attendees. We're still in the growth and experimentation stage. 
+
+**Founder's Note:** It wasn't until the third HMS that we found the perfect business model. This will now be our third HMB, following same trajectory.
+
+2. **Handmade Seattle (HMS): Dec 5-7 (Fri-Sun)**
+
+- Flagship Conference
+- Fully-Hybrid: Both in-person and online tickets like always
+- The formula's already perfected, just need to focus on ticket sales
+
+**2025 Target:** Four-hundred in-person attendees. The closest we got to selling all in-person tickets was Fall 2023, with 97% of all tickets sold (before mass layoffs hit hard.)
+
+**Founder's note:** A general phenomenon is that once you pack a venue (typically a 400-seat theater) you'll see exponential growth the following year, exploding to say one thousand ticket holders, then an order of magnitude after that. See PyCon, VidCon, etc.
+
+3. **Ticket Sales**
+- Early bird sale begins sometime in the Spring (with 20% discount)
+- Once we start ticket sales we will use the [newsletter](/news) to request community submissions
+
+**Q: Are board members allowed to submit their own talks or demos?**
+
+*A: We've decided no, but we'll revisit the question (and its ethics) next year.*
+
+4. **Weekend Conferences**
+
+Board is pleased with the new conference dates. Hositing conferences over the weekend gives attendance a massive boost (even though venue rental is more expensive. Risk is worth it.)
+
+5. **Revolt Chat**
+
+- Board agreed [Revolt](https://revolt.chat) is a substantial improvement over Element/Matrix for the conference live chat
+- Board wondered whether or not we should support Discord as another private chat server, in a bid to expand audience
+- Founder noted at least a third of ticket holders are anti-Discord and privacy-conscious
+
+Finally, the board recommended an overall survey to previous ticket holders.
+
+6. **Voting on Talk/Demo Submissions**
+
+- Matt Nite simply used a Google Form for Software You Can Love
+- It's best if the founder says "please read these submissions by the next meeting, and add your own notes"
+- Source speaker candidates from meetup hosts
+- Generally receive more feedback from meetup hosts on conference content
+
+We've agreed to create a dedicated email address for receiving submissions
+
+7. **Hard Deadlines to Commit to Present at HMB/HMS**
+
+- Gradually add penalties when deadlines are not met
+- Ensure all speakers sign agreement. NO EXCEPTIONS
+
+8. **Conference Agendas**
+- Get the agendas up as early as possible
+- It's okay to massage the schedule a little throughout the year
+- It's okay to let speakers update their talk title and description even if it's already on the website
+
+---
+
+**ACTION ITEMS**
+
+- Founder to meet with meetup hosts before the next board meeting
+- Create HMC email address for community submissions
+- Create webpage explaining how to enter submissions. WITH DEADLINES
+- Discord integration for submissions: allows live thread discussions among board members
+- Make sure Jim (1st speaker for HMB) is on our website by the next meeting
+- Make sure Taylor (1st speaker for HMS) is on our website by the next meeting
+- Determine how many open slots we have for each conference
+
+**Founder's note:** Last item depends on venue and the available hours their rental affords us, which is being negotiated. As an estimate, I will offer figures to the board from previous years.
+
+---
+
+**NEXT MEETING**
+
+Date: 16 April 2025 1600-0500 (US/Pacific)

content/english/board/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "Advisory Board"
+meta_title: "Advisory Board"
+layout: "single"
+description: "The Handmade Cities Advisory Board"
+draft: false
+---
+The Handmade Cities Advisory Board is the board appointed to advise the [founder](/about). They supervise the founder's general affairs as he:
+1. Organizes our two annual conferences: [Boston](/boston) in the summer, [Seattle](/seattle) in the fall
+2. Supports and grows our local [meetups](/meetups) 
+3. Decides which talks, demos, interviews or similar content are given at Handmade Cities
+
+The board has voting power over talk and demo submissions from the community. The founder may override the board, but such a decision must be made public through the meeting notes below.
+
+The board meets once a month. Meet the members in the [About](/about) page.
+
+**MEETING NOTES (TIMES IN US/PACIFIC)**
+- [18 March 2025 16:00](/board-meeting-20250318)

content/english/boston/index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "Handmade Boston 2024"
 meta_title: "About"
 description: "this is meta description"
-image: "/images/avatar.png"
+image: "/images/hmb/boston-dark-mode.svg"
 draft: false
 layout: under_construction
----
+---

content/english/media/_index.md

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 +++
 title="Media"
+image="/images/under-construction.svg"
 +++

content/english/media/seattle-2022/rsms.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 +++
-title="RSM"
+title="Virtual Computer"
 mediatype="talk"
 conference="seattle-2022"
 date="2022-11-17T15:45:00-08:00"
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ description="A little virtual computer"
 thumbnail="/images/thumbnails/2022HMSRSM.jpg"
 
 [[videos]]
-title="RSM"
+title="RSMS"
 embed="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1024179839"
 service="vimeo"
 download_link=""
 
 [[videos]]
-title="RSM - Q&A"
+title="RSMS - Q&A"
 embed="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1024184763"
 service="vimeo"
 download_link=""

content/english/media/seattle-2024/_index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
++++
+title="Handmade Seattle 2024"
+date="2024-11-20T09:00:00-04:00"
+enddate="2024-11-22T18:00:00-04:00"
+
+[[notes]]
+type="notice"
+text="""
+**We are editing these recordings**
+
+Sign up for the [newsletter](/news) to be notified.
+"""
++++
+