[Swansea Hackspace] Creating a newsletter/ Showcasing what we work on

[Andrew Price]

I like #SwanseaHack because it doesn't conjure up images of animal 
cruelty :) You can also use it as a noun: "look at my #SwanseaHack!".

I have no strong feelings though - as long as there's consistency it'll 
work. Good idea with the signage!

Andy

On 13/02/18 21:17, Sophia Komninou wrote:
> We can print some signs around. I use #SwanHack and #SwanseaHackspace. I
> think we should stick to one otherwise it will be a bit confusing!
> 
> On 13 Feb 2018 21:13, "Andrew Price" <andy at andrewprice.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 13/02/18 18:57, Matthew Daubney wrote:
>>
>>> On 13 Feb 2018 17:02, "Justin Mitchell" <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
>>>
>>>> I had started to look at this, finding some javascript tools that
>>>> aggregate
>>>> social media postings onto your website.
>>>>
>>>> but i hit problems at the first thing i looked at, Instagram.
>>>>
>>>> all the tools need an access_token to talk to the instagram API, to get
>>>> that you need to register a client, but that is in sandbox mode and
>>>> heavily
>>>> restricted to what it can see (basically only things posted by yourself),
>>>> to see anything else you need to go through an approvals process for your
>>>> client, and they are no longer accepting requests for that as the API is
>>>> being deprecated in a few months.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has used the instragram APIs recently, and knows any more about
>>>> it than i have been able to find, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> I will look at the twitter and facebook APIs next
>>>>
>>>
>> Don't forget G+ ;)
>>
>>
>>> The Liverpool one already does Instagram.
>>>
>>
>> Looking at the config file in the git tree, it requires all the auth
>> tokens and such that Justin is struggling against.
>>
>> I think this endeavour might be starting from the wrong end, though.
>> Perhaps the right order is to start collating info for a regular news post
>> (it isn't that difficult to do hashtag searches manually) and then maybe
>> set up some automation to do that later.
>>
>> That said, getting people using the #SwanseaHack hashtag on their project
>> posts should start right away.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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