SOL8: Web Housekeeping

I’m a cofounder of a workshop on women’s activism and gender rights in Eastern Europe. We started this workshop more than 25 years ago, meeting monthly during the academic year, and started a blob/website almost 10 years ago. The moderators are supposed to keep the list of speakers up-to-date, but we all have a lot of responsibilities, and recently I noticed that we were almost five years behind.

            So today, I took on the task of updating. As you know on your own blogs, if you want to do anything more than plain text, it can get very complicated. Like, how do you not have what looks like double-spacing between lines in a list? (Use a manual line break, not the Enter key at the end of the line. It took me a while to learn that, and then to remember.) Or, in a Wordpress blog, how do you make the type not look tiny on a browser or on your phone? (It’s counterintuitive. Use Heading 5, while looks bold on your screen, but at least is a reasonable size for reading.)

            I had most of the information, but it was in different formats for different years. It took over an hour to properly format so names, affiliations, and talk topic were all consistent, but I got it done. It’s not perfect, there’s still missing information from the early years, but it’s mostly presentable. And if you’re interested, here is the link: https://gendertransformationeurope.wordpress.com/previous-speakers/

 

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I’m participating in the 13th annual Slice of Life Challenge over at Two Writing Teachers. This is day 8 of the 31-day challenge.  It’s not too late to make space for daily writing in a community that is encouraging, enthusiastic, and eager to read what you have to slice about.  Join in!