[HLUG] New HLUG website re-incarnation

[Morven Lewis-Everley]

You could have used a server side redirect, its a little nicer than the
"nasty" approach you were talking about?

Mo

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Hi
>
> After waiting nearly two months without hearing a dickiebird from our
> web hosts at lug.org.uk, I decided to use a nasty 0 second redirect on
> our 'site' at herefordshire.lug.org.uk to redirect immediately to our
> new web server space kindly donated by Paul, and set up by Mark.
>
> I'm sorry its taken so long, and would wish that things can move faster,
> but at least we have a site that can take shape and form a worthwhile
> addition to Linux and Open Source in the area.
>
> There's little on it as yet, but if you visit herefordshire.lug.org.uk,
> you can see the rudiments. Its a Drupal site, with blogging facilities,
> polls, posts and stories, a bit 'no frills' currently.
>
> However long it takes lug.org.uk to get our dns change to our server, is
> now not so much an issue.
>
> I hope, we can discuss building up our HLUG website at the next meeting,
> which is our January one on the 3rd Weds of the month (as usual), on the
> 21st January (details on the website).
>
> I am also contemplating, whether we should call ourselves the
> Herefordshire Linux and Open Source User Group, instead of just Linux
> User Group.
>
> Its a bit of a mouthful, but these days, Open Source as a whole, perhaps
> is more newsworthy than Linux, and many beginners to Linux start off
> with Open Source applications on Windows, like Firefox and Openoffice
> for example. I personally don't mind whatever platform people use
> (although I strongly advocate Linux of cause ;-) ), and think that
> whatever we can do to widen our appeal and user base is a good thing.
>
> As such, that is the title on the website for now, but all comments, and
> suggestions for perhaps a good acronym, are welcomed ... (HOSALUG ....
> HLOSUG ... ??!! ) :-)
>
> Julian
>
>
>
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