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Posted on September 17, 2014 by: Shane Maru
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Objective for this website to provide an online environment, a place I could store information for my family and friends, site has been long over due for content, always has been will get around to it, after many years of the site being up, feel like its time to use it for its intentions.
Been along time trying to build the confidence to stand up and do something I believed in and being self conscience has taken sometime to over come. I'm not a perfect person, have made of lot of decisions that have held me back.
Lately I have been really soul searching so to speak, what do I want to truely do? I want to do what I have always wanted to do and that's help people, I feel like I have been hiding inside a shell, and feel like its time to start making some real actions to really take ownership of my life.
I don't know if anyone reading my thoughts truly understand where I'm coming from? but I really want to try to make something good happen one day at a time, I have all these ideas that have been floating around inside me for a long time and want to give myself a chance.
Basically I want to provide an option for people to share information they think, would be benefit others in our community, I have never been very strong with expressing myself in words. But I want to start somewhere.
Do believe in our community, and believe our community has so much potential, I want at less try to help although I understand I'm not perfect and may let people down at times, but I do want to bring the odds more in my favour to minimise letting people down.
My daughter is now 5 and will be 6 in Feb, I have been a solo dad, since the first day she left the hospital. I want to be able to show my daughter I respect myself and I respect others as growing up, there are decisions I haven't benefitted from.
Lately I have been trying to provide options for people, local businesses another place on the net to share with our community.
Been asking local businesses if they wouldn't mind if I took a photo of the front of there shops, details about what they offer and any other important details that would help our community.
Been contacting organisations in our community asking if they would like another option to share their resources, I would love to have a place that I could go to that had news about our community, about events happening local, has been many times something has happened and I wasn't aware.
It's not always easy to ask for help, or where do I go for help and learn in my own time, so I was thinking perhaps others may feel the same?
I hope over time, people will learn the substance of what I want to provide to my family and friends, and future friends also visitors too.
Would like to ask if anyone would like to share anything that they may feel would help others, to let us know and will see what we can do.
Thanks for reading my textbook, lol.
Shane Maru
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Posted on May 21, 2013 by: Wainuiomata
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A documentary is well under way which chronicles the life and work of former Wainuiomata resident and current Kapiti resident, Betty van Gaalen.
Betty is an inspirational woman and has been an influential figure at all levels of community and local government in the greater Wellington region for over 40 years. Despite retiring in the 1980s she has maintained a presence in political matters wherever she has lived.
Growing up in Bolton England, she learnt how to box to enable her to stand up to local bullies. She was then to get into trouble for hurting them. This fierce determination to make her way in the world and let nothing stop her, was to become her legacy.
Three lengthy interviews with Betty have captured a huge amount of information, and many memories of local and national political personalities.
Nimlin Productions, a Kapiti Coast based film company are working solidly on this project and hope to have it completed by the middle of next year. Anybody who has been associated with Betty over the years can support the project via Pledgeme.
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Posted on April 25, 2013 by: Wainuiomata
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HUTT VALLEY AND DISTRICTS JUSTICES’ OF THE PEACE ASSOCIATION (INC)
(Registered Charity No CC25516)
Affiliated to the Royal Federation of NZ Justices’ of the Peace associations Inc
WANTED
Would you like to become a Justice of the Peace for the Wainuiomata Community? If you are interested and would like to know more about the requirements to hold office.
Please contact:
The Registrar
Vickie Ferguson
9761568
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Posted on April 16, 2013 by: Rob van der Linde
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We've finally done it! All the data from the old ynui.co.nz forum has been imported into the new website after weeks of hard work, that is all the threads, topics, comments, profiles, etc.
The new forum software has been uploaded to the wainuiomata.com site, but we will keep the old website running for a while until things have settled down. The new forum (and the rest of the site) is written in Django, while the old website was written in PHP and was very different in design.
We did manage to keep things as similar as possible to the old forum design, so that the data could be imported without too much rework.
Please note that you can't login just yet, there are still a few things to sort out before we can enable people to login with their old ynui.co.nz accounts (as well as create new accounts) but hopefully this won't be too long. The main thing is that the new forum is up, which is a huge milestone by itself.
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Posted on April 13, 2013 by: Rob van der Linde
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We are getting closer now to completing the move of the old ynui.co.nz forum and all the existing posts and comments on the forum to the wainuiomata.com website. There has been a great amount of work put into this project, rewriting the forum as it was on the old website, but in Django rather than PHP, so moving over a completely different system all together and converting the database to the new system.
I have put my best effort in making sure the old data (that is the posts, comments, and user profiles) are preserved when imported into the old system, by converting the data as it is imported and cleaning it where necessary. This has been a huge undertaking but well worth it, I have run a simulation of the import many times now, and am confident that when the time comes everything should be imported without any issues.
There are only a few issues to resolve now, and I expect the move to be done within 1-2 weeks from now.
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Posted on March 4, 2013 by: Rob van der Linde
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I've finished updating the blog, which changes the URLs of all existing posts making them shorter. I have updated Disqus with a new URL map and setup redirects in place for the old posts which already had comments posted on Disqus before all the URLs were changed over.
I noticed that Disqus doesn't really update the old links when you look at the "also on wainuiomata online community" section below the comments and it doesn't really update the old post titles either, as I had also changed these earlier, but with the redirects in place everything still works fine including the old links to posts.
New comments added after this point should come up with the proper post titles and new URLs.
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Posted on February 27, 2013 by: Rob van der Linde
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We've added support for Disqus comments for blog posts, bringing back commenting on blog posts. We had comments on our old ynui.co.nz blog a long time ago, but it became difficult to manage comment spam and we had to disable comments for a while.
I had always intended to bring back support for comments by writing a better spam filter, but it's just so much easier to use Disqus now. The great thing about Disqus is you can log in using either your Gmail or Facebook account which makes it easy for visitors to comment.
Important:
We are not quite done yet however, and this is a bit of a warning... I plan to make some changes to the blog which will change the URL of each post, I know this is normally a bad thing to do, especially for search engines, but it's really important and needs to be done in order to develop a new feature.
The way Disqus seems to work, is it links the comments to the URL of a page, so I am afraid that when the URL for each post changes, we will lose the comments from before. I am not sure how Disqus deals with this, but I have a suspicion we just end up losing the older comments when I change the URL for each post.
Because we have only just enabled Disqus and moved the blog over to wainuiomata.com, it's best to do this sooner than later, when there are almost no comments and the loss is not so bad. So I plan to get this done this week if possible.
We will keep you informed about any new developments to the site.
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Posted on June 3, 2011 by: Shane Maru
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Thought I would start with the first post to the new site, get something started at least. The idea at this point is to start using the site for personal use? I guess somewhere I can share information, ideas etc with friends, family and whoever around the nui that is interested lol.
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Posted on November 10, 2009 by: Shane Maru
Been ages since I left anything on this site, should start using it to get more involved in whats going on around Wainuiomata. Be good to see the website being used. Will try and see if I can resurrect it back to life.
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Posted on January 3, 2009 by: Shane Maru
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Did you know something about those public water coolers? that the spout on the water cooler can contain germs? Imagine how many people use them to fill there water bottles? how many water bottles do people put to there lips? then fill there water bottles using a water cooler? what about the spout which the water comes out? maybe touches the water bottles? How many people are you kissing? yucky? you might catch something?
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