As anyone whos had the pleasure of sitting through a programme planning meeting will know, there never seems to be enough ideas to fill a programme. But no longer! As by harnesing the power of the internets we have managed to create… The Random Activity Generator! An idea so cunning that even Baldrick himself would be impressed. No longer will committees give up after an hour and resort to sticking ‘pub social’ into the gaps in the programme - how about:


Stick on you boots, grab an OS map and go on a hike

There’s about 25 different activity ideas in there at the moment so we still need lots more. Leave your ideas in the comments section

Ta da,
Website should be working happily now.

Comments are now working aswell

In a moment of extreem revision avoidance, the new scogui website is up and running - altho still full of bugs! But on the plus side is does look quite pretty

Hopefully i’ve transferred everything accross from the old site (which can still be found here) but if i’ve missed anything let me know.

There’s still quite a lot of work to be done on the site so if you want to help out and know a bit about css and php let me know.

Current bug list / features still to be added:
(If you find anything else or can think of a funky feature we could add let me know)

• Comments for blog posts aren’t working
• Blog enteries don’t show the date they were posted
• Photo Uploading / Members galleries
• Next activity appearing on the front page
• A proper archive for old blog/news posts

- Mark xx

In a yearly tradition dating back longer that anyone cares to remember, a selection of lovely scogui members have given up their weekend to help run Forest Districts annual May Camp.

… More Soon

Making the best of a far from ideal situation, Scogui now has a new official logo. A big thank you to Sagga for letting us use their logo, slightly less thanks to loughborough students union for making us use theirs.

All club documents need to feature this logo on every page - so don’t forget to include it!

Click here (.doc)

Hazaa, if you’re reading this you’ve found the new scogui website.

Welcome to what will possibly become the new scogui website. At the moment this is just a test site and is not replacing scogui.org.uk

Why do we need a new website?

• The current design of scogui.org.uk is nearly 6 years old - and it is starting to show it’s age
• Whilst it has served the club well over it’s time, due to it’s lack of interactivity for club members, scogui facebook has taken presidence, relagating scogui.org.uk to little more than a calendar and archive.
• Making changes to certain areas of the website involves html knowledge and ftp access (eg photos; community; resources; links). This has lead to these area of the site being rarely updated.

What do you plan to do?

• Fully intergrate all the pages in scogui.org.uk so that they can be edited online in a simple way.
• Improve interactivity with the site to lure members back from facebook
• Customised CSS layout to provide a fresh look. A CSS system will also allow future generations of webmasters to easily change the look of the website if they so desire (but not needing to rewrite any of the underlying code)

How will this be done?

• The current plan is to run the entire site using the Wordpress blogging system
• Being a blogging software, it is specifically designed for simple and quick updating of webpages and supports running and editing of static (ie non blog) pages
• Plug-in allow for all of scogui.org.uk’s functionality to be replicated, as well as that of the scogui facebook.

When will this happen?

Once all the following points have been met, and not before.

• All the features of scogui.org.uk have been replicated in the new site
• Archive data (such as programmes, photos, committees etc) has been preserved in the new site
• The features in wordpress site are more useful than those of the current scogui.org.uk site
• Once a fresh and uniquue CSS template is ready for the site

Target date is Summer 2008

On Saturday 8th of December, a cold damp morning, a small team of Scogui descended upon the Oaks campsite to lend a hand with some of the off-season improvements and repairs. The day started with Andy, Dave and Rich being given the task of cleaning and repainting the Clarke Hut kitchen. Starting well everything that wasn’t bolted to the walls and floor as removed and the inch-thick-in-years-old-grease extractor fan disassembled to be washed by Andy whilst Dave and Rich started the mammoth paintwork job. Joined briefly by Daz and later Rosie, the fearless Scogui workforce had the whole kitchen looking good-as-new before lunchtime, without many problems and without destroying too many ladders!

The afternoon saw new jobs for us; Dave and Rosie tackled one of the bunkrooms (too many jokes and innuendos can be made that are unsuitable for print) and Andy, Rich and Daz climbed into the roof of the ‘Black Hole Caving Experience’ ™ to reinforce the sagging roofing, which involved a lot of lying on backs with feet in the air whilst one of us did the nailing.

At the end of the day a lot of work had been done and everyone headed home for a well deserved rest. Bring on the Rifle Range!

Written by Andy Prudom