Odds and ends
A few things from the last couple of weeks that I haven’t updated yet here …
- LabourStartJobs.org will finally close down this summer. We needed to give 6 months notice. Once this is closed, we can consider launching a free jobs board for trade unionists – this is something we might want to discuss this summer.
- UnionBook now has over 2,500 users though not all have confirmed. We continue to send out weekly mailings to all of them. In the last 7 days, we’ve picked up another 122 users. We have a list of things we want done to the site and have hired someone to do these things.
- The ActNOW wire in French has been fixed – this is part of a whole bunch of problems we’ve had after we converted LabourStart to Unicode without waiting for the rest of the trade union movement to join us – meaning that we’ve had to re-convert some of our content back to earlier formats to display properly on union websites.
- We’ve submitted a proposal to Unite, the largest union in the UK, asking for support.
- The link to show more news for individual countries now works properly in all languages.
- Having written our first script that can read the UnionBook database – it shows the size of the various groups – we can now do much more. We can create our own tools to monitor and administer the system.
- We’ve submitted a draft early day motion to the British House of Commons regarding UnionBook – this will probably be introduced in the next few days.
- The Labour News Network in its most recent incarnation (Jottit) has now been closed down. UnionBook replaces it.
- We’ll shortly begin selling this book – waiting for final confirmation from the publisher.
- We’re exploring moving our campaigns from the existing 1&1 server – which could not handle the most recent flood of participants – to our new dedicated server which we use for UnionBook. This should solve the problem.
- NoSweat Apparel in the US has offered to produce UnionBook t-shirts which we will shortly begin selling.
- There’s probably more, but I can’t remember it all.
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Put me down for 20 t-shirts, they’ll be great to sell at conferences and conventions!