Solving problems of inclusion and equalityWe ran a Google Optimize test over the last month. We tested four variants of the White Water Writers homepage to see which one was most ‘effective’. In this example ‘effective’ means ‘sent people to the contact page’. The result was fascinating. So, when we started the test, the White Water Writers landing page had […]
We aquired our first Duke of Edinburgh Award volenteer recently: it’s been a fascinating experience. Partly because there’s a lot I apparently don’t remember since I picked up my own Gold Award (I was completely taken aback by how much it costs), but also because working with a young volenteer is quite the adventure. Here’s […]
We had a really big fail on White Water Writers this week. Since June last year a (low priority) project has been to add ‘promotional’ chapters to the end of the White Water Writers books. You’ll have seen such chapters before. They normally look like this: …and add a characteristic look to the spine of […]
This is mostly a post for people internal to equality time but it costs nothing to make it open. There is now a guide to our filesystem availible as a Google Document. Some initial notes: in general we divide our files by three levels of access: Files that only trustees and CEO can see, like […]
This week we applied for the Amazon Literary Partnership with White Water Writers We think we’ve got reasonably good odds: we tick all of the listed boxes. We’re also quite heavily involved in the Amazon Ecosystem (we publish our books there and we host the code on the Amazon Virtual Machines so we’re a fairly […]
We’ve been asked a sensible question by email so I’m putting our answer here for the next time someone asks the same sensible question: Can I use the novel I wrote with you guys and the team(as part of White Water Writers) as the basis for future work I do? Like writing a sequal or […]
To report a small internal success: I rewrote the code behind White Water Writers so that it automatically generates a well-formed ebook at the same time as the print-ready pdf that we send to Amazon. This means that we can upload them seperately rather than relying on Amazon to convert our nicely-formatted pdf into a […]
Our accounts for 2019-2020 are in the accounts folder! An exciting part of this year’s accounts was that we prepared them ourselves and had them independently examined, this: Saved us a reasonable amount in accountants fees Meant that there is a much closer relationship between the accounts we submit and the internal state of our […]
One of the small projects of the last few months has been the complete rebuilding of the Flowers For Turing website. It started as a small migration project – I’m a bit unhappy with our current webhost and wordpress in general so I wanted to move it to Github Pages site. Of course, while actually […]
This is one of those posts to help people searching google for a particular problem, it’s not relevent to eQuality Time or it’s projects more generally. We have a credit line with Amazon so that we can pay by bank transfer (vital for charities that need two signitories on any outgoing spend). During the pandemic, […]