website

[Mark Wyatt]

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> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:18:44 +0100
> From: "Dave Briggs" <db at davepress.net>
> Subject: Re: website
> To: "william pink" <will.pink at gmail.com>
> Cc: clug at cambridge-lug.org
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> I've made a start: http://davedev.org/clug/ - using WordPress and
> hacking a pre-existing theme.
> 
> For some reason when doing the logo I called it CamLUG rather than
> clug - will change tomorrow. If anyone has any photos, maybe of CLUG
> events that could be used on the home page, do chuck them my way.
> 
> At the moment the blog bit of the site is set up as 'latest news'
> which could report on the latest meetings, events, etc - so could act
> as a group blog. The other option is to use something like
> FeedWordPress to aggregate other people's blogs into it.
>

I'd drop 'latest news'; historically, we have been poor at keeping latest 
news filled with anything that resembles 'news' in the commonly used 
meaning and news from years ago just makes this look like an abandoned 
website.

(Unless maybe anyone fancies doing some kind of 'mashup'/agregation from 
existing news sources. I think we'd cope with that. I suspect though that 
for most that would duplicate stuff they have already as RSS feeds)

My preference would be to use the space for static links to useful foss 
sites (tldp seems like the most obvious, but any sites where there are 
good tutorials and howtos would seem better than having rtfm questions 
posted to the list and I'd add distrowatch for a site that has actual 
news).
 
> If we don't choose to do the latter then I was going to build some
> sort of planet arrangement elsewhere on the site, linked to from the
> homepage.
> 
> There is also a wiki, linked to from the homepage. I've just used
> PMwiki which doesn't require a login, just a password. We could use
> this to house various resources, member biogs etc.
> 
> Do let me know what you all think. Is this heading the right way, 
> in your view?
> 
> Dave

This is absolutely heading in the right direction, imho. And an rss news 
feed? Would that have the same problem that the site news has always had 
(bad, or at least, not really an advantage) or be a replacement for / 
enhancement to the 'daily digest' form of the clug mailinglist (good)?

An exact postcode for CB2 would be a good addition for anyone who intends 
to find the place via sat nav. CB1 2LD acording to http://www.cb2bistro.com/
and you might have expected, from the name, that to be a CB2 postcode....

"in the center of Cambridge city every Sunday at 1pm"; its not every Sunday, 
anymore and the Cafe isn't really in the cntre of Cambridge City: I know this a 
lift from the existing website, but the fact that the existing site isn't ideal 
is where we came in. In addition this link to the CB2 website is broken.  

While, practically, the group has always primarily been a Linux group, 
although nominally a FOSS group, is the prominence of tux without qualifying 
comments, a bit much? You could add a BSD Daemon, but wouldn't that just lead 
to a gradual proliferation of FOSS logos (Apache, Debian, KDE, Gnome,....)?
Perhaps it would be better away from the front page where there would be 
space for an explanation of the wide world of FOSS. I'm not sure, what do 
others think?

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