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Hi Greg (and )! I just looked at Eventmath and Talk:Eventmath. Two items:
 * 1) The fact that you will be holding synchronous workshops is sufficient for me to wish to attend your online (synchronous) meetings. Let me know when they happen.
 * 2) I looked at Talk:Eventmath and would be willing to make the color scheme more readable, if you want me to.
 * Yours truly, --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 02:39, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi
 * That would be great! We don't have a date set for the workshops yet. We may set up a mailing list in the future, but for now, we have this Google Form to help us organize the contact information and interests of the Eventmath community. We'll send out workshop dates to everyone who fills out the form. If you'd prefer that we contact you in a different way, just let us know!
 * Thanks for offering to help with the color scheme :) After a bit more reading about interface design, I might like to either reduce the number of tabs, or group the tabs by color. We'd also like the color scheme to be compatible with the logo, and ideally, we'd like the active and inactive tabs to be very easy to distinguish. Our proposal places an emphasis on having a well-structured portal with a good user experience, so we want to be particularly thoughtful about this. and I will be discussing it tomorrow. In the meantime, would you be able to describe the solution you have in mind? I'm pretty familiar with HTML/CSS/JS but am still learning the ropes on issues specific to MediaWiki software. If it's easier, we can let you know when we have a more stable idea about the final interface.
 * Thanks for the help!
 * --Greg at Higher Math Help (discuss • contribs) 03:29, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * I just filled out the Google Form. My recommended reform on you interface was minimalistic:  I had trouble reading the print on the dark tabs-- it looks as if you chose to shades of dark blue for the text and background.  I was going to change one of those colors. (See for example special:permalink/2320060--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 03:36, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Oh, perfect. Thanks for filling out the form!


 * Yep, that's definitely the main design issue right now. The labels on the dark tabs should be white (see the table from the Project impact section of the grant proposal for an example of this color scheme). The trouble is, the default color for the labels is dark blue, and I am still sorting out how best to change that. The tabs template that we're using has parameters for some CSS style customizations (such as the background color for the tabs), but it doesn't have a parameter for the color of the tab labels. Do you know how you would change the label color?


 * In the end, we might change the background color, which is easier, although the current color scheme has a couple of advantages: (1) it makes the active and inactive tabs very easy to distinguish, hopefully even for color blind people (we can check on that), and (2) it's consistent with the main Eventmath logo colors, which improves recognition among users and builds familiarity, so that users visiting from outside Wikiversity feel comfortable and know they're in the right place. If we need to go this route, I'll have to think more about which background color to choose, but hopefully we can just change the label color. In any case, thanks for your help! --Greg at Higher Math Help (discuss • contribs) 04:18, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * To create special:permalink/2320060 I just changed one of the two colors in the template. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 04:49, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. The difficulty is that we'd like to style the label text, rather than the background color of the tabs. Styling the labels is harder to do because of the way the template is set up, but it would be preferable. We'll see if we can sort it out. --Greg at Higher Math Help (discuss • contribs) 05:05, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for custodianship?
Would you like me to nominate you for custodianship?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 14:10, 1 September 2022 (UTC)


 * That would be great! Thank you so much for offering. I have two questions:
 * @Dave Braunschweig originally suggested a curatorship, so that's the role I previously expressed interest in. Are you suggesting I consider custodianship instead? I've seen "custodian" used informally as an umbrella term for support staff, but I know it's also a separate role with separate user rights, so I just want to check. In any case, my main priorities would be supporting new Eventmath contributors and adding proposed technical improvements, content, and features to Eventmath.
 * I've been meaning to include a brief write-up of my activities on my user page, as an example for new Eventmath contributors, and I figure this might also make it easier for you to write the nomination. Just now, I made a rough outline, and I'll post it soon. Should I let you know once it's live?
 * Thanks again! -- Greg at Higher Math Help (discuss • contribs) 06:01, 2 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Dave would know if a custodianship is more appropriate. My guess is that a one-step-at-a-time approach is best, and that you should start as a curator.  I will get the nomination out within 24 hours if nothing comes up to take me away from Wikiversity.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 10:33, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Guy! The one-step-at-a-time approach makes sense to me. I really appreciate the nomination and the positive remarks you included. Since you linked to my user page from the nomination, I'll add some additional content to that page now; hopefully, that will make it easy for voters. -- Greg at Higher Math Help (discuss • contribs) 19:33, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

You have earned community support as curator. Congratulations! Please start by adding yourself to the Staff list. Then check to see new rights on pages and Special pages. Let me know whenever you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:20, 10 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you!! I added myself to the staff list and checked out my new rights. I'll let you know whenever I have questions! -- Greg at Higher Math Help (discuss • contribs) 20:15, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Hey
How can I enroll in that course you are working on? Poop-stained undies (discuss • contribs) 07:10, 6 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi!
 * Thanks so much for your interest.
 * This course is still in development. It's essentially a list of topics with links to lesson plans for each topic, but the list of topics is not yet finalized, and most of the lesson plans still need to be developed. It will take a while for it to be fully fleshed out.
 * Also, the lesson plans are designed to help instructors. In the long run, lessons for students could be created based on the lesson plans (possibly in the form of videos, for example), but there's not a concrete plan for that yet. I'll make a note of that idea. Thanks for the inspiration!
 * Having said all of that, you're still welcome to read over the lesson plans as we add them. No enrollment is required. To stay up to date with recent additions to the course, you can add it to your watchlist by clicking the star icon Vector skin - page not in the watchlist.png, which is located in the top right of the page (assuming you're using default settings).
 * I suppose that's not what you were hoping for, but I hope that answers your question!
 * -- Greg at Higher Math Help (discuss • contribs) 08:01, 6 December 2022 (UTC)