[HLUG] New forum

Sun Jun 10 22:12:53 UTC 2018

I've just sent an email to everyone on our current HLUG mailing list (this
list that you're receiving emails on now) inviting them to join up to the
new Forum

It's a very simple process and will only take a moment of your time -
honest

Please sign up, login and take a look around and interact .. I hope you
like it .

See you on the other side ..

Julian

On 10 June 2018 at 22:54, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well the new Forum is ready at last ;-)
>
> You can find it here https://discuss.joolsr.info
>
> As I said this is a temporary holding name for now, and if successful
> Kevin has kindly agreed to move it to the VM that he provides for the
> website.
>
> I need to work out the best way to allow LUG Members account creation, but
> please note that you won't be able to create a login yourself without a
> Moderator to approve it first.
>
> Anyone who wants to be a Moderator please step forward too please ...
>
> There's a few topics to get started with in there and a poll too .
>
> It's certainly a big jump forward I think on our existing retro mailing
> list. We'll keep the mailing list going for the time being but if the group
> Forum is successful I will close the mailing list .
>
> Julian
>
> On 2 June 2018 at 22:13, david winterton via Herefordshire <
> herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Enjoy your camping, the front page is mobile phone friendly, I will write
>> up my upgrade to my system when I am finally forced to remove my computer
>> from the side of the TV
>> David
>>
>> On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, 18:57 Julian Robbins via Herefordshire, <
>> herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Sean
>> >
>> > It's hosted on a small Digital Ocean 'droplet'. About £5 a month great
>> > value. I normally use Linode a another similar vps provider but thought
>> I
>> > would try DO again and found a money off voucher too. It's a 1GB 25GB
>> > droplet but with a ssd.
>> >
>> > The actual install is actually using Docker as that is the official
>> > installation method for Discourse. Updates are handled on the web GUI.
>> >
>> > I haven't set up any accounts as yet, but set them up for anyone
>> > interested. Email is all working. It's  just a test setup but should be
>> ok
>> > for us to have a good  look.
>> >
>> > I'm actually out camping tonight so not near a of at the mo - certainly
>> the
>> > weather for it.
>> >
>> > Julian
>> >
>> > On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, 6:32 pm sean tohill via Herefordshire, <
>> > herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > >  hi,
>> > > login is?
>> > > can you provide a run through of what you did and where it is hosted,
>> as
>> > i
>> > > imagine the list users would be interested.
>> > > regards
>> > > sean
>> > >
>> > >     On Saturday, 2 June 2018, 16:47:11 GMT+1, Julian Robbins via
>> > > Herefordshire <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >  Hi everyone
>> > >
>> > > As part of the Survey recently held I asked if LUG members would be
>> happy
>> > > to try a new communication system for our group. I've noticed that
>> many
>> > > open source communities I'm part of now use discourse.org as their
>> many
>> > > focal point of group communications. Ie
>> > >
>> > > https://discuss.erpnext.com and
>> > > https://forum.restic.net
>> > >
>> > > My reasons are many.
>> > >
>> > > Our existing mailing list does not allow attachments, in line images,
>> > > videos, emojis, nothing apart from text. Nowadays people are used to
>> more
>> > > expansive forms of communication and community ie like Facebook,
>> Twitter
>> > > etc where communications are so much richer.
>> > >
>> > > My plan is that we move to an Open Source ' Discourse' forum which
>> allows
>> > > us to have all this and more. The forum is searchable too where you
>> can
>> > > watch several separate threads at once. This forum also allows the
>> use of
>> > > emails as notifications to new messages in the forum which means that
>> it
>> > > can function in a similar but more featureful way than usual.
>> > >
>> > > There is even new add-ons that allow inline chat on the website and
>> > > notifications to conversations using slack , telegram , Riot etc etc
>> > >
>> > > I've installed a forum for our use which we can have total control
>> over.
>> > > It's installed on a small vps which I'm  happy to pay for if it's a
>> > > success. I still need to go through the config a bit further as yet
>> but
>> > > this won't take too long.
>> > >
>> > > The site is currently at as a temp address
>> > >
>> > > https://discuss.joolsr.life
>> > >
>> > > When everyone has had chance to have a play I will change the URL so
>> it
>> > > will be
>> > >
>> > > Http://discuss.hlug.org.uk
>> > >
>> > > Here's a few notes about the forum. I suggest that you have a quick
>> look
>> > at
>> > >
>> > > https://www.discourse.org to find out more what it can do
>> > >
>> > > Escape email silos
>> > >
>> > > Engage in searchable discussions with your most avid customers,
>> > superfans,
>> > > and fellow team members – every day. Let everyone discover what you
>> do,
>> > how
>> > > you do it, and join in on the conversation.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Private conversation areas and whispers are supported too, along with
>> > email
>> > > notifications and email replies. We’ve got you covered.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I hope this can be a positive contribution to getting the group to be
>> > more
>> > > active again. I've spent quite some time putting this together so hope
>> > that
>> > > others can make good use of it to help learn and work together using
>> > Linux
>> > > and Open Source in the county
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Julian
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