[Tfug] Our website

Tue Apr 24 10:09:14 MST 2007

I'm a big fan of having some immutable areas (front page) with general
info and links to the list archives, and then a wiki area that we can
all help to keep more current. This seems like it would lead to a good
balance of up-to-date info without risk of having the main page and
important info defaced.
JDR

On 4/24/07, Anthony Hess <runenfool at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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