<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That’s great about the forum! Let’s get it done.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All of these things have been taken care of - at least what is needed to launch registration.</div><div class="">I am just finishing up the Meet the Presenters.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will also finish up the email and send that test asap - within the next hour or so.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amy<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 9, 2020, at 3:44 PM, JW Glass <<a href="mailto:james.wesley.glass@gmail.com" class="">james.wesley.glass@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi Again,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I saw you sent this a few days ago. I see we are both updating these items although there are still a few to edit.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also wanted to say I will have some time hopefully later this week to take another look at the forum stuff.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">JW<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 7:07 PM Amy Olson <<a href="mailto:akeo@me.com" class="">akeo@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Hi JW and all,</span><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">I’ve worked a bit on the conference web page. I’ve basically set up a template and much of the info still needs to be updated from last years’ info. </span><span style="font-size:14px" class="">I did not see the page you referred to below, JW, so I duplicated last year’s page and have started updating the content. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">You’ll see it marked as a “DRAFT” in the list of pages on the Wordpress dashboard. Here’s the link:</span></div><div class=""><a href="http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/?page_id=23043" rel="external noreferrer noopener" style="color:rgb(0,160,210);outline:currentcolor none 0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/</span><span style="font-weight:600;box-sizing:inherit" class="">8th-annual-ccga-gardeners-conference-saturday-march-21-2020</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">/</span></a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Items that still need to be updated have UPDATE next to their titles. If you update something, you can delete the UPDATE note and reply to this email thread.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Items that need updating:</span></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Set featured image - Ignore the featured image at the top - I have to troubleshoot why it’s not displaying correctly.</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Exhibitors - should we add something about a “marketplace”?</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Info and Map of Whitney Young</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Schedule</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Fees - add support team email?</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Conference Highlights - add Keynote Speaker? Update Kids’ info</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Soil Testing Station - Is this happening?</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Workshop Descriptions - Do we want to do accordians again?</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Meet the Presenters - Separate page?</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Registration Directions & Links</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Transportation and Parking</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Please note - will there be lockers available?</span></li></ul><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Another website item that needs some tweaking is the <u class="">FORUM</u>. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">We could plan to announce it at the conference!</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">The log in process needs some TLC. JW, can you still help with this?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">I’m available to help with any of the registration set up and can work on the content updates later tonight.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">I’ve also been working on the newsletter and will send a test asap.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Amy</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">On Feb 2, 2020, at 4:56 PM, JW Glass <<a href="mailto:james.wesley.glass@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">james.wesley.glass@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px" class="">Hi Guys…</span></div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">I am delayed on CCGA stuff.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">..work project...nothing I can do...it takes me an entire day to get online registration up and running...I was supposed to have that done by this weekend...I have a critical work deadline for tomorrow so I am hoping after Monday I can start working on CCGA stuff…</span></span></div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px" class="">Again, sorry for the delay...nothing I can do, barely have time to eat/sleep..</span></div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px" class="">Anything you guys can do to set up the emails and stuff would be great...feed me any copy/links/share links… </span></div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px" class="">I have one main page on the site where most stuff goes..then there is the form set-up, loading all the workshop details, some testing and the new payment stuff which I need to get back to…</span></div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Realistically I won’t be ready until Wed/Thursday at the earliest</span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">...I know that puts us a few days behind...I will see what I can do and keep you posted...I don’t have a lot of time to always get to personal email but will try to be more responsive and update you on my timing and when I get free…</span></span></div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px" class="">JW</span></div>
</div><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:14px" class="">On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 3:07 PM Lorraine Kells via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" class="">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Hey folks, isn't it wonderful to have sunshine again?</span><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">I have most of the write-ups and information I need to give you for the Eblast/Newsletter and conference registration listing of presentations, descriptions and bios.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">There are more than two presenters listed this year for several workshops. Do we need to list all presenters or at all? For the 2018 conference our listing was by workshop title with an accordion pulldown of description with no presenter names.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">We can do this in a "Meet the Presenter" in the Newsletter and on the website where a brief biography explains who the presenter(s) is(are) and makes more sense than just names on an accordion. Let's decide that one.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Then, I played around with the GoFundMe stuff to see how user-friendly it is and how easy it is to follow the help pages and prompts. So nothing I changed has to be permanent. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">JW Have you looked at the coding for the Forum yet? It would be good to have that up and running by the conference.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">So, what are you guys up to?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Lorraine</span></div></div><span style="font-size:14px" class="">
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