[Tfug] Our website

[Anthony Hess]

Back to the OP ... I think he meant anachronistic?  Anarchistic is probably
a better description of the group though :)

Anyway - I like the idea of throwing up a wiki and letting the community
create accounts and work on it.  We could try it on a subdomain first, just
to see how it goes.

Tony


On 4/24/07, William Stott <WStott at ventanamed.com> wrote:
>
> I offered to help a long time ago, and I will still hold to the offer. I
> would suggest a sub-domain (devel.tfug.org) be created for work on the
> site so that everyone would be able to view the work done and approve it
> through the list. I am not sure of the arrangement with dakotacom, but I do
> believe that Chuck would not have an issue with this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William E. Stott, IV
> Staff Information System Engineer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
> Jon
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 3:43 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Our website
>
> Adrian wrote:
> > On Monday 23 April 2007 13:06, erich wrote:
> >
> >>     I glanced at our website today, just for the hellofit; and the info
> >> there
> >> is pretty stale.
> >>
> >>     I quick glance over on Netcraft shows that Dakota Communications is
> >> still the netblock owner.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > There have been a number of conversations concerning the website and it
> > maintenance status (or lack there of). To summarize the conversations,
> > everyone would be extremely excited to see a new and improved website,
> but to
> > date no one has stepped up to design/implement any changes...
> >
> > The website is "owned" by the community, Tyler Killian has been gracious
> > enough to pay the domain registration costs for a number of years. The
> site
> > is hosted by Jon, on one of his boxes, which happens to currently sit at
> > Dakotacom.
> >
> > If anyone is willing to step up, present an outline of the changes for a
> nod
> > by the group, and actually do the work, Tyler, Jon, myself, etc., etc.,
> etc.
> > would be more than happy to help and access to make the changes.
> >
> > Adrian
> >
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> This has been a sticking point for the group for as long as I can
> remember. Numerous times in the past we have kicked around ideas on
> things to do but no one has really stepped up to own the project. I'm
> not laying any blame as I know people are busy and the majority of the
> information that gets conveyed is done via the list.
>
> I would however like to see it grow. If anyone has ideas for the site, a
> means to accomplish said task and is willing to own it from beginning to
> end I have no problem giving people FTP access to the site. I would like
> to have the list "sign-off" on any work being done though.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Jon
>
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