[Falkirk] Volunteers wanted for the website

[Douglas McCallum]

I have no design skills at all. I can spot bad design a mile off, but I
cannot create good design to order. My design method is find something you
like the look of and pay homage to it.

On 19 August 2015 at 08:33, Dougal Matthews <dougal at dougalmatthews.com>
wrote:

> 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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