[Falkirk] Volunteers wanted for the website

[Dougal Matthews]

On 18 August 2015 at 23:34, Greg Sutcliffe <greg.sutcliffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the replies. Let me go through this a bit ;)
>
> On 17 August 2015 at 23:12, Douglas McCallum <dgmccallum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can do the HTML/CSS stuff if someone better doesn't come forward
>
> On 18 August 2015 at 06:40, iain matchett <iainmatchett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Web guy checking in - I'm in :)
>
> Douglas, Iain - cheers! Do you want to duel to decide who gets away
> with not doing it? :)
>
> On 17 August 2015 at 23:52, Rathgild <rathgild at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why not go down the line of using a CMS like Drupal or Joombla ? That way
>
> On 18 August 2015 at 10:03, iain matchett <iainmatchett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A static site would probably be a good idea
>
> On 18 August 2015 at 09:18, Dougal Matthews <dougal at dougalmatthews.com> wrote:
>> I would recommend doing something as simple as possible.
>
> I agree with something simple and static. The only thing I have
> familiarity with is Octopress, itself a wrapper around Jekyll, which I
> use to write my infrequent blog. It's a triviality to run "rake
> generate", add it resulting changes to git and push it to Openshift.
>
> CMS is a good suggestion, but probably overkill for what we need.
>
>> What are the goals of the website? Just to show the next event?
>
> Aha, the can-o-worms question. Right now, yes - a landing page we can
> direct people to, next talk, and probably talk history so prospective
> new members can see what stuff we cover (and so I can avoid repeatng
> myself with topics/speakers).

We (Python Glasgow) don't have good visibility on previous events, I keep
meaning to add that.

>
> We do post stuff to OpenTechCalendar - would that work as a source of data?

Yup, that is reasonable. Our Python Glasgow Google calendar is consumed by
OpenTechCalendar, so we integrate with them well. I just add to the calendar
and everything else is handled.

>
> For hosting, I can set up a dedicated (free) Openshift account with
> multiple managers easily enough. Openshift is pretty straightforward
> (similar to Heroku, if you've used it) where you push a git repo to
> your instance. Sane?

Yeah, that is sane. However, I'd be tempted to use GitHub pages for free static
hosting. However, that only makes sense if you use GitHub in general.

>
> On 18 August 2015 at 11:31, Craig Skinner <skinner at britvault.co.uk> wrote:
>> Template Tookit is bloody good at this:
>> http://template-toolkit.org/
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Toolkit
>>
>>> then updating the website could be as simple as sending a pull request on
>>> GitHub (I'd set up Travis or similar to deploy the site).
>
> Good suggestion, thanks! I'll look into it. Should be easy enough to
> hook it to Openshift, I would expect. I was expecting to be using
> Github, yes - there's nothing to hide here, after all, so we may as
> well use a public host for the source.
>
>> For something this small, a local CVS repo would be fine:
> Wait, CVS? Why is that not dead yet? -10 internets for you ;)
>
> On 17 August 2015 at 23:52, Rathgild <rathgild at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I should point out that edlug have the lug.scot domain so if you want to
>> use, say, falkirk.lug.scot get in touch and we can sort something out.
>
> We already have falkirklug.org (currently a redirect to Google+) but
> if you wanted to CNAME, I'll happily buy you a beer or two - cheers!
> ;)
>
> Greg
>
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