[SGVLUG] Website / Mailing List Updates, Ideas

[Dan Buthusiem]

I can host it in a VM on my VM rig. Just let me know what you need.

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On Apr 18, 2012 2:57 PM, "James McDuffie" <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:

> tl;dr:
> 1. Lets go ahead and use the Github website and help me improve it
> 2. Lets get some traction on the mailing list/forum work
>
> WEBSITE DECISIONS
> -----------------
> At the April SGVLUG meeting last Thursday we discussed the candidate
> replacement user group website I announced on this mailing list last week:
> http://sgvlug.github.com/
>
> The following is from the my recollection of the discussion we had. Let me
> know if I am misremembering things.
>
> I think everyone was in agreement that using Github to host the main
> "landing page" for the user group was a good idea. The one dissension was
> related to it not being as easy to update the website from mobile devices,
> since you need to use git versus a web form. However, a counterpoint was
> that those who are actually putting out the effort should be the ones
> steering the implementation. Also Michael Starch volunteered to help me
> with updating and posting to the website.
>
> That being said I think we should go ahead with adopting the Github page
> at some near future date. Recently I went through and dumped all the
> meeting announcements from the Caltech calendar and added them as pages on
> the website. However, I am limited by what content was available and so
> some pages just say: "monthly meeting."
>
> I think the website is good to go, my only remaining reservation is that
> the fonts and margin widths the template designer chose are a bit too big
> on smaller devices such as smart phones. But this is just a matter of
> tweaking the CSS.
>
> WEBSITE HELP NEEDED
> -------------------
>
> So in list form, here is the website work I plan to do and would not mind
> getting help doing:
> 1. Add missing content to meeting notices based on mailing list
> discussions at the time
> 2. Fix the CSS to look better across a broad range of devices. Luckily the
> template uses LESS CSS (http://lesscss.org/) which makes this much easier
> to maintain.
> 3. Add links to (or copies of) presentation material: slides, videos, etc,
> websites
>
> With these changes the main website will be sort of an archive of the
> group at a gross level.
>
> MAILING LIST
> ------------
>
> I keep saying "main website" because we also discussed what is to be done
> with the fabled Drupal website. The main hold up on that having been Matt's
> time coupled with his desire to implement a mailing list/forum component.
>
> We do need to move the mailing list elsewhere because:
> 1. Michael Proctor-Smith who currently hosts it at his house desires this
> 2. We have had drop outs in the past due to power and human error that
> caused messages to bounce from this arrangement
>
> I did a bit of research to see if there was a simple way to host a mailing
> list for free while still maintaining the current mailto address. But, I
> could not find anything at that price point.
>
> The mailing list will have to be hosted somewhere and someone will have to
> shell out for the hosting wherever it lives. There are possibilities for
> moving the mailing list to say Google Groups or Nabble, etc, but those
> would mean everyone would have to post to a new mailing list address. I do
> not think anyone wants that, I certainly don't.
>
> Now coming back to the promised Drupal website. I think the forum/mailing
> list integration would be a cool feature. And we could host this at say,
> forum.sgvlug.org or some similar domain name. Matt has said that he has
> talked to Paul (sorry don't remember the last name) and he has volunteered
> hosting this.
>
> My only request is that enough group members have access behind the scenes
> so that there is no single point failure. If possible we should have sort
> of redundancy set up.
>
> DRUPAL
> ------
> Matt, Miguel, if you do not have time to finish your implementation, then
> maybe you can post what you have so far to, say Github? We can certainly
> set up a repository for that.
>
> MAILING LIST ARCHIVE
> --------------------
> Our current mailing list archive goes back to 2005, there is a wealth of
> information there. Although I was not able to find a place to host a free
> live mailing list, I did come across some great places to keep backup
> archives.
>
> http://gmane.com/ has 13k + websites that it archives and they appear to
> allow you to send them your curring mbox formatted archive to include.
>
> We could use this service to have a backup archive for all existing
> messages and any future ones for the new incarnation of the list. And yes
> they do respect the X-No-Archive header value for the privacy minded.
>
> APOLOGIES
> ---------
> Sorry for the tl;dr, just trying to capture everything as best I can.
>
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