Richy's Random Ramblings

As hinted to in a previous entry the arrangements for the 2003 Open Directory Project UK editors real life meetup (phew – what a mouthful!) are progressing. We’ve already got a likely date (that I suggested 🙂 ) and voting has already started on the likely locations – Cambridge, Oxford, Leeds and Bournemouth are the most likely – Bradford, Gloucester, Exeter and Leicester are next. But it looks like no one wants to be sent to Coventry – it’s only got one vote so far..

I’ve invited the other 6 editors of Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/ (and, yes, I have memorised that nice long URL – hence why I keep on quoting it on places such as Resource-Zone) to the internal forum thread discussing it – bringing the total of editors contacted regarding it to over 100. The attendance last year was reasonable at 13 editors (location was the Briar Rose pub in Birmingham), but hopefully we’ll have a few more come this year.

If you are an UK ODP editor reading this (I know at least 3 people have found this blog via my private ODP editor profile – the private ones are accessible to ‘editors only’ and only contain a few little extra nuggets of information), then login to the ODP (forgot your password? Then get a password reminder!) and pop over to the internal forum “Penguin Cafe” and have a read of “A new year, a new UK editor get-together”).

Yes, there are only 6 listed editors for the whole of Leicestershire – over 1,180 sites – but there are less than half-a-dozen unreviewed sites in the whole of Leicestershire: the majority of those are “dead” sites (i.e. sites that are returning 404 errors, DNS is currently unable to resolve etc.) that have been moved to unreview until they come “alive” again. Of course, any editors of England/, UK/, Europe/ and Regional/ can also edit there – along with any editall or meta editor.