[kwlug-disc] Website Wishlist

Tue Jul 14 15:03:07 EDT 2015

Not me. It's there if we start writing code and need a place to keep it.

Andrew

On 13/07/15 18:01, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> 
> 
> Do we feel strongly about doing the organization on Gitlab? If not I
> can make a static page on the existing kwlug.org site where we can
> consolidate this information.
> 
> - Paul 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:39:52AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> Trying to consolidate the list of things that I think that kwlug.org
>> should do.
>>
>> * event listings which include
>>   - announcement and description
>>   - pingback/webmetion about the meeting (e.g., microblogs by Bob to
>>     start with, and link backs to anyone else who mentions the meeting
>>     if we want to be fancy)
>>   - audio/video of the events
>>   - post-meeting notes (e.g., links to slides and presentation material,
>>     links mentioned during the event, questions that people thought
>>     were interest)
>>   - transcript (this would also be fancy given the amount of work it
>>     would take but valuable for search-ability and accessibility)
>> * contact information and links to other locations on the web
>> * guidelines for submitting and doing presentations
>> * aggregation of member blogs
>> * links to members and their published code
>> * links to other FLOSS groups in the region
>> * wiki section to be able to collect other information about FLOSS in
>> the region
>> * archived pages for the FLOSS Fund
>>
>> I think that bostron.rb[1] is a nice example for a user group site.
>> Might provider some inspiration.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> [1] http://bostonrb.org/
>> 	
>> On 11/07/15 01:35, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>>>
>>> Come on, folks. So far it seems that the answer to the questions of 
>>>
>>> - What is working?
>>> - What is not working?
>>> - What changes do you feel should be made?
>>>
>>> is "the website is too dynamic, so please make it static and also set
>>> up a Gitlab instance to host the git repository to which you hand out
>>> keys"?
>>>
>>> Clearly I did not frame the questions clearly enough.
>>>
>>> - Paul 
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:09:10AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
>>>> Oh dear, I think that I might have brainwashed Bob with talk of static web sites. :)
>>>>
>>>> Given that kwlug.org does not change that much, and discussion is handled in the mailing list it seems like a good option.
>>>> We could remove the general posting functionality, and just aggregate the FLOSS related blogs of members.
>>>>
>>>> Hubert mentioned this:
>>>>> One way to get all that with a static site generator is to set up a git
>>>>> repository on github/gitlab/etc., and give several people write access.
>>>>> Then you can set up a hook that will tell the web server to pull from
>>>>> the git repository and rebuild the site every time someone does a push
>>>>> to the repository.
>>>>
>>>> I think this would probably work well. I would pick Gitlab, just because they do actually release the code for their service.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jekyll[1] is a pretty popular and would be a good option. I have been using middleman [2] for my personal site [3] and kwruby.ca [4], which are both still pretty simple. It seems like a good option too. They both have large collections of plugins.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried ikiwiki and found it fiddly, and eventually switched to middleman.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://jekyllrb.com/
>>>> [2] https://middlemanapp.com/
>>>> [3] http://andrewsullivancant.ca/
>>>> [4] http://kwruby.ca/
>>>>
>>>> On 09/07/15 18:40, Chris Irwin wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca
>>>>> <mailto:hubert at uhoreg.ca>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     So I'm not volunteering for anything, but... ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>     On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:23:16 -0400, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
>>>>>     <mailto:paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>     > Another thing that is nice with Drupal is having multiple logins. I do
>>>>>     > not want to be the only person with commit access, because at some
>>>>>     > point other people will need to update KWLUG content.
>>>>>
>>>>>     > The third thing is that the content should be updateable by the web,
>>>>>     > because giving out SSH credentials like candy might not go over well
>>>>>     > with our generous webhosts.
>>>>>
>>>>>     One way to get all that with a static site generator is to set up a git
>>>>>     repository on github/gitlab/etc., and give several people write access.
>>>>>     Then you can set up a hook that will tell the web server to pull from
>>>>>     the git repository and rebuild the site every time someone does a push
>>>>>     to the repository.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ikiwiki is quite nice in this regard. You push to it (or configure a
>>>>> pull periodically via cron, etc) and it rebuilds static content via a
>>>>> git hook.
>>>>>
>>>>> It supports editing via the web, and supports comments. The http process
>>>>> commits them to git, which means you can fetch & merge them in your
>>>>> local copy.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Chris Irwin
>>>>> <chris at chrisirwin.ca <mailto:chris at chrisirwin.ca>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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