[Falkirk] Volunteers wanted for the website

[Greg Sutcliffe]

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

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?

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