[Charlug] Website/Mailing List status

[Kevin Williams]

Not like I have been a regullar in coming to meetings, but thought I would
comment.
To be efficient and taking care of the immediate need of moving the site
from current host. Lets use one of the offered host, and tarball and ship
everything over. So that's done this weekend. Then we can hash out on where
to move what for the long term. Maybe in a scheduled time in #charlug on
freenode. Which I like that idea since we do have an active mailing list and
people sitting at their keyboards. I know I spend a few hours a week on IRC.
I like that option.

With our web presence. I think we need to really look at our presence in a
general. It's apparent we may not be a face-to-face LUG, but a networked one
through a mailing list and various other media outlets. I know many of our
members write about linux and their development interest on their personal
blogs, or public offerings through their work. So instead of useless eye
candy and features on the actual website. Maybe the website could be just a
feed collector  or repository linking us to various Charlug members streams
that they are already putting out there. Maybe it will spark people asking
questions to the mailing list. From there spark interest in having a
face-to-face discussion or demo of the work being done through our
discussion.

So the simplified site would be a brief description of the group, any links
to other area technology organizations, and feeds to member streams. Albiet
through their favorite media. Blogs or social networking sites.

Also we can try and take a poll and see who actually use the archives of the
mailing list. To see the requirement of keeping them in the mailing list
system is worth it. It looks to me that the history wasn't transferred from
the previous move to the current server. So archiving may not be as
important of a requirement. Just a thought.

regards,
-Kevin.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jim Rorie <jfrorie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not talking about google groups.  I'm saying let google sites host
> the site, our domain.  We should be able to hook into an existing
> mailing list technology.    I'm just thinking that we only have to do it
> once and we are done.  We don't have to worry about who has a spare vm
> server that can host the image every couple of years.
>
> Just an option.  It may be more of a pain that it's worth.
>
>
>
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> Jim Rorie
>
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>
> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:43 -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> > Jim Rorie wrote:
> > > I'd definitely look into having google host the website and ML.  It's
> > > free and you wont have to worry about it ever again.  (Unless google
> > > goes all MS on us and starts charging.)
> > >
> > > Of course, it's for less than 50 users. Do we have that many on the
> > > list?  Standard "google, keep your hands off my data" objections
> > > notwithstanding.
> >
> > Google groups are fine, but unless something has changed recently, they
> > don't allow import of pre-existing archives into their system.  That
> might
> > be a show-stopper for some folks.  Also, most of my Google-employed
> friends
> > prefer not to use Groups for their own needs, citing its "suckiness".
>  But I
> > couldn't say what, in particular, they dislike about it.
> >
> > In terms of website needs (post-migration), I'm guessing that all that's
> > really required is an easy way to remotely manage relatively static
> content.
> >  Would a simple auth-protected Wiki to the trick(y?  Sorry... could stop
> > myself.)  Or, with an eye on future possible expansion, maybe just a
> minimal
> > Drupal instance and custom theme (I've got experience here).
> >
>
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found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must
speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our
limited vision, but we must speak." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- April
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