Word Press Site

At the following location

duluthkidsnet.wordpress.com

 I have invited Dr. A. Khan to discuss some of
her recent experiences with Zoom as she has
held several classes and other meetings using
the platform.

I am looking forward to hear any insights or
suggestions she might have.

Also beginning next week I will schedule
regulars meetings starting with one per
week, and trying to figure out where it
goes from there.

oh also best contact is probably at the

wordpress/contact 

Oh maybe should say that attempt to do fund raiser
on facebook was a huge failure.

basically, a lot of stuff

So, I must admit a certain level of not sure what do
do next, but I am working as fast as I can to
turn this website into a functional unit, with intent
of helping children, youth and families, especially
now during this incredibly challenging moment.

But, in many ways we are very much still in
humble beginnings, and developing innovative
methods to meet new and different challenges
ahead is most likely the direction we are headed.

For the immediate we have an offer of a zoom
book study coming up and very happy to say
my good friend Amanda Hansen plans to host
this group in the near future.

So, I will continue to address issues with this site
in the upcoming days.

Meanwhile, am wishing all the best to all Duluth
children, youth, and families.


k?

A humble beginning ....

So the first real " Event " was added to the website - yesterday --- and so I feel like I need to mention
a few things ---- first I'm going to add pretty much the whole email I received from the Armory Arts & Music Center.   But in general if I get email like that I will most of the time
add it to the site --- if it has relevant material about youth activities.   By most of the time I
will need to have some contact with the group or organization that has sent me the info,
but I think I will be trying to apply good sense in adding activities.

In this case we have met with the Mark Poirier, and I am personally supportive of what is going
on, in terms of a worth while activity for Duluth youth particularly those with an interest in music of
performing.

The text of the email follows:

Dear Marc,

The Music Resource Center- Duluth Armory’s first day of the 2016/2017 school year will be Tuesday September 13^th! The MRC is a FREE after-school music program for teens from 6^th -12^th grade, is located at Sacred Heart Music Center at 201W 4^th Streetin Duluth, and is open from 4:00 to 6:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdaythroughout the school year.

We’ll kick off our 6^th year in operation on the 13^th with a pizza party and jam session. Food will be served at 5:00 and families are welcome.

The MRC provides a creative, safe environment where students learn to play instruments, write songs, record and edit music on state-of-the-art software, and work together. The MRC also provides performance opportunities such as our monthly Open Mic at Amazing Grace, and each spring we produce a professional quality CD of student’s songs. Last year we had over 50 students attend the program at various times.

If you know a teenager that is interested in music encourage them to check out the Music Resource Center. If you have questions, please contact me.

We’re looking forward to a great year!

Mark Poirier
Executive Director
Armory Arts & Music Center
mark@dulutharmory.org
218.428.9686

So we'll try to keep this updated with info on these activities.

So immediately (now) you will see on the calendar these repeated events with most of the
details from this email....  And I will make changes as needed or requested.

Today is today ....

So it kind of feels like I lost a transmission on this project.

 Actually what happened was, I sort of tasked myself or at least faced the issue of user documentation,  of which I have been, ( sincerely ! ) a strong believer of, through
out most of my life.  Unfortunately, I find that I am actually not so great at creating user documentation.

You gotta  love excuses like that, really.

Anyway, after a couple of months trying at this, not very successfully,  I had a meeting
at the Duluth:  CED,    where it was suggested that I try Google Apps for Work,  and so I did.

But it still seemed like the transmission was broke - but I finally made it to a reasonable
place with it - and I do believe that this is the right direction moving forward, nevertheless,
I will certainly be able to apply certain features perhaps hosted in other locations.  But
I certainly feel that there is a lot of Google apps documentation which is quite accessible
as well as, media,   meaning videos.  Also I think that there are a lot of services available
that will allow  collaboration and co-operation through out the Duluth kids

So as this organization has been established as a non - for - profit ,,, and google will allow
non for profits to use Google apps for free, then our membership will also be free, as long
as and if this remains possible.

Which brings me to the wordpress site : duluthkidsnet.  My goal was to use this mostly
documentation on the duluthkids.net system which is now really at google apps.   So,
moving forward with this - this site will now be focused mainly on google apps, and working
with that technology mostly for users of duluthkids.net.

Finally,  I have not linked the google site to the url but expect to do that imminently which
most probably means by the end of this week......

So if you are interested there will be a contact page there so that we can contact you.

So hopefully this blog will now be focused on efforts to add members to Duluth kids.

And you can view the apps site at: duluthkids

working at heroku

I have launched the app at this address:

http://duluthkids.herokuapp.com/

and after some un greased wheel got greased again, it is now working
as a demo.  There is still a significant amount of fixin' to be done
however, but running is good. I mean the code - running. So in other
words with more- spittin' and polishing ... there  may be really
a there ==> there.

Also you might expect some more not sufficiently greased bits
moving ahead.

Also I sort of ( oddly ) created this site ____

https://duluthkidsnet.wordpress.com/

which at this point I plan on using to create user documentation
or instruction for the system < or something > and perhaps
extend it as organizations begin to participate.....

Meanwhile, as usual - we look forward to progress.....

initial code base - newforum6

Today - released initial code base for demo version of
duluthkids.net - to github

As in the readme there :

this code is based  loosely on combining two code bases -

flask-forum
and
django-swingtime


However, these projects were based on sql data structures while newforum6  utilizes -
mongoengine - that is based on mongodb data structure, but this project is also heavily
dependent on:  flask-admin.

Based on this code I expect to have the online demo in place

( " SOON " )
( " QUICKLY ") -
( "IN SORT ORDER"),
or ( " IN NO TIME " )

- OKAY...

As well as documentation for end users and
some general system documentation.

The current state of DuluthKids.net

Well, first things first:  Certainly we look forward to progress.

Anyway, the code base for the " Demo " phase of this project is with in days/day hopefully
not weeks from completion.  When duluthkids actually goes " live ", there will be online
registration for " organizations " --- As yet I do not have a clear definition for " organization ",
only that it will be dealt with on a case by case basis.  When we have  a " viable " group of
initial user - and choose to " GO LIVE ",  then registration will be available for
" affiliates " as well as most importantly parents of participating youth.

Also, I am endeavoring to set up what is needed for creating the non for profit which will
continue to direct on going efforts on this project.

In addition we will have hard copy material related to the functioning of the system
which I hope will also be available on request.  So it then will be possible to request
this material or some kind of e-version of it via the on-line registrations form.

So to summarize:  plan to have code base in place and DEMO running --- soon ----