[dundee] Website Meeting

[Rick Moynihan]

Hi all,

Would it not be better to have this meeting at the normal meeting
times?  To allow suggestions & debate with those who are not students,
yet still participants within this community?

If not, is it possible to consider running the whole site off a wiki
installation?  I advised against the drupal/website installation last
year:

http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/dundee/2008-February/003554.html

on the grounds that it's structurally too formal for an adhoc group of
people, and that I believed a wiki would be more suited.

Obviously this is a social-problem more than it is a technology one,
but I think a wiki would engender more innovative uses, allowing a
mixture of different types of content.  e.g. After/before a talk, we
can more easily collectively assemble additional resources around that
topic area.  We can recategorise things, providing a less-linear
structure to the information we have.  Plus it's a lot easier to
contribute miscelaneous snippets of information/configurations etc to
a wiki.

I also believe one of the social-problem's surrounding the existing
site, is that it was strongly pushed as an online forum.... Yet we
already have one - the taylug mailing list!  I personally don't think
that the website should attempt to compete with the mailing list, as
it risks fracturing the community, leads to confusion about where to
post, and is unlikely to be adopted wholesale by the community using
this mailing list.

Also a wiki is better suited to the snippets of information we have on
the site at the moment.  In a drupal installation these snippets get
lost in the surrounding heavy-weight structure/navigation.

Anyway, I just wanted to chip in some thoughts for consideration if I
don't get to participate in your meeting.  It's just a suggestion for
those willing to try a new direction

For the record, I don't mean to criticise the work done on the
existing site.  The reasons for the relatively low level of adoption
are without a doubt non-technical.


R.

2009/1/22 Gordon <gicoupar at googlemail.com>:
> Hi Nick,
>
> I am interested in helping with the website in any way I can. The best time
> for me would be a Saturday or Sunday Morning/Afternoon.
>
> Gordon
>
>> I need to know rough numbers of people who are interested in helping out
>> with the design, development and upkeep of the Linux Society website. I need
>> to book a room for a meeting where we will discuss issues, and decide what
>> direction to head to as far as the website is concerned. I Intend to book
>> the room on Monday morning, at 9AM. If you're interested in coming along,
>> even if it's just to be kept in the loop and not to help, please let me know
>> via the list or personal email, along with what day(s) and time(s) in the
>> near future are best for you to attend the meeting. The room will be booked
>> for the time which best fits the majority.
>>
>> Also, as Arron mentioned a little while back, there are LXF issues
>> available free of charge, donated by LXF themselves. I believe that issues
>> available are LXF 112 and LXF 113, multiple copies of each (I think we have
>> 7). If you would like access to any of these, drop me a line, and I'll get a
>> copy sorted for the next LS meeting.
>>
>
>
>
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