[Preston] A meeting on Weds

[Guy Heatley]

Nice one!
I was kind of thinking that the existing site could be a portal to a CMS.
I think that the existing sites look and feel is fine. Phil's done a
great job in that dept. Its not the style, its the content that needs
to kept up-to-date. I think we need to have static content on the main
site and dynamic stuff on the CMS, then the authors themselves can be
responsible for keeping their own pages up-to-date
Also the mailing list is perfectly reasonable as a means for the group
to communicate. I don't think there would be enough activity to
warrent a discussion board or something like that.
I was thinking along the lines of something that the people who host
meetings could put their notes online under the PLUG banner.

Anyhow, we need to discuss this further. Ideally whilst drinking beer ;-)
--
Guy

On 12/5/05, Gareth Llewellyn <gareth at ournetworkismadeofstring.co.uk> wrote:
> Pogga Ltd (www.Pogga.co.uk) will happily provide PLUG with whatever it needs
> hosting wise.
>
> And we'll help with the redesign if you want.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Guy Heatley
> Sent: 05 December 2005 00:38
> To: PLUG mailing list
> Subject: [Preston] A meeting on Weds
>
> Hello!
>
> There are a few things I would like to mention:
>
> Firstly, there will be a meeting on wednesday in room CM18, C&T
> building, Fylde Rd (opp the Students Union) Preston at 7:30 pm. The
> top will be "Text processing with regular expressions". This will
> include use of sed and awk etc. And we my take a look into a
> mysterious problem with Jim's wireless network card.
> There'll be drinks afterwards in the Greyfriar pub on Friargate at 9:00pm
> Everyone welcome to either or both parts of the meeting.
> ===============
>
> Secondly: I think we need to look at our information technology setup.
> For example, the website is pretty out of date. This isn't a criticism
> of the website maintainer (Phil) because know he, like most of us, is
> always busy.
>
> I think we need some thing that incorporates the virtues of the
> programmer: impatience, hubris and sloth. (i.e. minimum effort on the
> part of the maintainers ;-)
>
> I was thinking of some sort of content management system where PLUG
> members could upload stuff like documentation they have created,
> projects that interest them etc and it would all be under the PLUG
> banner. I know we are not short of all kinds of expertise in the PLUG
> membership. It would be nice to get any publications/how-to's/tips in
> one place.
>
> Anyone know of free hosting for CMS stuff e.g. plone? Any other ideas?
> ===============
>
> Thirdly: The day we meet.
> What do PLUG members think about meetings on the Wednesday? Some have
> said that Weds is difficult. Would another day be better?
> Personally, I don't have a problem with Mon, Tues or Weds.
> Any comments on the meeting day?
>
> Cheers!
> --
> Guy
>
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