[SWLUG] swlug site

[Emyr Derfel]

An idea which might generate useful content:

At each meet, a volunteer or nominee could accept the following
responsibility:
--Generate a summary of the topics covered.
--Highlight nuggets of information put forth:
----These nuggets may have been laborious to gather, preserving them would
increase the sum of accessible human knowledge.
----Hyperlink where possible.
--Identify attendees who were able to provide useful information
----this might hint at people who could give valuable lightning talks or
blog posts, but might not have realised that the knowledge they have is not
widespread.

I think that the SWLUG presence should emphasise the high utility of
attending SWLUG meets, versus other pub attendance, or researching solo.

Two options stand out for the structure of such a site
1: a dynamic homepage which aggregates SWLUG member's blogposts, from
whichever platform that member chooses to use. Like a hosted RSS-readed
which only pulls summaries of articles tagged SWLUG.
2. some form of wiki, but with a stream of site-update-summaries on the
home page

I haven't been researching CMS for a while so I can't currently recommend a
platform that's appropriate for either idea, which could be presented
transparently as swlug.org. Sorry.

Thanks,
Emyr
(Now in Manchester)


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Matthew Moore <matt at matthewmoore.org.uk>wrote:

> Firstly, I'd like to say to Justin, that we're not aiming to get at you
> here.  I personally appreciate the effort and money you've put in to
> running the website over the years.
>
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:25:03 +0100, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> >>>> In the meantime, why not just put up
> >>>> the one page? It doesn't rule out changing it when something else
> >>>> becomes available, and IMHO is an improvement on the current site,
> >>>> which isn't really inviting to new members - which, if my thinking is
> >>>> correct, is one of the major requirements for our website.
> >
> > To my mind, a single static page is essentially going to tell newcomers
> > "SWLUG exists, but we're all too clueless to even run a simple website
> > so don't waste your time with them"...
>
> Well Unified.diff (unifieddiff.co.uk) has one page which is basically a
> link to meetup.com and to a bunch of videos on youtube/vimeo.  They have
> popular meetups which often get 20-30 people turning up.  Compared to us,
> when it's an amazingly good month if we have 9 people.  We still have
> months where no one turns up, or 1 or 2 people turn up.
>
> >
> > (And no, I'm not volunteering to do a load of work on this - I don't
> > have time, all I'm saying is that I think the proposed solution is a
> > massive step backwards from what we already have, so I don't see any
> > merit in it.)
>
> This is the problem.  I'm sorry if this comes across as being harsh, but
> that's not the intention.  We need people to do stuff not to send emails to
> the mailing list suggesting who we could do things or what we could do.
> Pretty much everyone who's posted to this thread over the last month or so
> is a sysadmin, programmer, web dev, we all know what to do, we could all do
> something perfectly reasonable in a couple of hours if we all pulled our
> thumbs out.
>
> At the moment, we need some action to be taken, the current site is out of
> date, often down and frequently filled with spam.
>
> I'm happy to block out a couple of hours in my diary in the new year to
> improve the design.  But for now Justin wants to offload the domains and a
> simple way to move forwards has been suggested by Mark (who apart from
> Justin, is the only person to actually do something) and we can get that up
> and then once we've got the website on github pages and the mailing list on
> lug.org.uk it's possible to move forwards.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
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