{"id":2918,"date":"2013-05-14T18:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2013-05-14T18:10:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:10:01","slug":"the-week-in-review-7-5-14-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"The week in review – 7.5 – 14.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns:<\/strong> The Bangladesh campaign<\/a> is one of our very largest, with over 14,000 messages sent — we got a big boost from the British TUC which did an image that went viral <\/a>and brought a lot of attention the campaign. We will probably close this soon as IndustriALL and UNI have made a lot of progress this week.<\/p>\n

The Hong Kong campaign closed and we’ve asked about closing the Mexico campaign<\/a> after three months — waiting to hear from IndustriALL about that one. We asked the RMT in the UK if we could close the “Justice for the 33<\/a>” campaign and have been asked to continue to run with it for another month or so.<\/p>\n

In addition to publicizing our own campaigns, we were asked to do mailings and promote Amnesty International’s new campaign<\/a> in support of releasing jailed Bahraini teacher Mahdi, which we did. We also did a special promotion on Fiji<\/a> for the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the ITUC.<\/p>\n

On the technical side, we fixed some of the German text, got an Indonesian ActNOW newswire<\/a> working, and have made more progress on the new campaigns database which will make our translators’ job considerably easier.<\/p>\n

News home pages:<\/strong> Edd’s been working on some of the more complex language home pages which have not yet been moved over to the new format (Dutch, Polish); Eric will be completing work on the French version in the next few days. We fixed a lot of things on the country pages this week, including how campaigns appear (now showing the photo from the most recent campaign and horizontal lines to separate them); news stories that appear in the top 10 don’t repeat in the stories below; when a state\/province\/region appears in the headline (e.g., England), it now appears in a different colour (as it does in the list of stories); there’s now an ad for the new book on all the country pages in English; the “for more info” link now appears again on all stories where there’s something in that field.<\/p>\n

Book 2<\/a>:<\/strong> Sales are going well; we’ve sold 180 copies — 156 of them this week. We’ll begin work on a Kindle edition this week. Matt H. has volunteered to work on a German edition of this (and the previous book).<\/p>\n

Berlin\/Vancouver 2014:<\/strong> Edd’s been in touch with some German comrades and we’re making slow and steady progress. Derek is talking to comrades in Canada about a global solidarity conference there as well.<\/p>\n

Mailing list:<\/strong> We had a problem with the latest version of our Sendy<\/a> software — it was screwing up character encoding. This was now fixed.<\/p>\n

CloudFlare:<\/strong> The adoption of CloudFlare<\/a>, which we pay to ensure that our site is accessible everywhere at an improved speed, and which will keep us going even if we go offline for a while, has caused some teething pains. One of them was a delay in seeing the new photo of the day, which Derek has been posting. This has now been fixed.<\/p>\n

Today in Labour History<\/a>:<\/strong> I noticed that the word ‘more’ would appear even when there was no more; this has now been fixed. We have a lot more stories in the database now and a big thanks to Andy for translating so many of them into French.<\/p>\n

Fund-raising:<\/strong> The ITF has pledged to donate something, and we’re expecting a donation from the RMT as well, which voted at its conference last year to support LabourStart. In addition, we’ve put in requests for grants for specific purposes to two UK-based charities — the Lipman-Miliband <\/a>Trust\u00a0and the Edge Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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