[HLUG] New HLUG website re-incarnation

[Paul Stenning]

I could also register a more suitable domain name without the wetlettuce 
bit, such as hlug.org.uk.  I'm happy to pay for that.


Morven Lewis-Everley wrote:
> 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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