Talking about github. If the website is static, you can host it as like nlug.github.io for $0 On Mar 1, 2015 8:39 AM, "Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey dudes, please pardon the top-posting. I just re-joined the mailing > list to participate in this discussion, and I do not have a real mail > client. > > Just to test the water, what do you guys think about starting up a github > organization for NLUG? Anyone with a github account would be able to join, > it'd be an open group. We'd need a lot of owners, so they could add new > users, but I don't think there's any shortage of people on this mailing > list that know how to use git, or would have a problem maintaining that > group. > > Once we have an org, we could host a static website using github pages. > This could just be some raw html that we've written ourselves, or we could > use a static-site generator like Jekyll, and manage the site as a series of > text files and templates (take a look at > https://github.com/igneous/lordofthephon.es to see what that would look > like). It would still be something that everyone could contribute to, like > a wiki, but we'd have a bit more control over it. Also, you can rest > assured that github isn't going anywhere. It's also worth mentioning that > we could still keep the nlug.org domain, just forward the apex to a 'www' > cname, and point www.nlug.org -> nashville-lug.github.io. > > We could also create a few repos for group nlug projects. if anyone wants > to work together as a group on other stuff (perhaps a bot for our irc > channel?). I notice that Gerdesas hasn't been keeping his bot around :P > > Best, > Igneous > > On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 9:41:38 PM UTC-6, dink wrote: >> >> This would be a good time to have a Nlug steering committee meeting. I've >> had an idea for a new Nlug website, but very little time to build it. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Feb 27, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Amber Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, February 27, 2015, Kevin Eldridge <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello Nashville Linux Users Group, >>> >>> Our hosting provider is scheduled to shut down on April 1st, giving you >>> almost a month to find a new host for the nlug.wikispot.org data. This >>> should not be an issue. If you need assistance with this, please let me >>> know, I will try to help as best I can. >>> >>> I sent Philip Neustrom a reply thanking for allowing us to have our >>> data on his server. >>> >>> Thank you very much, >>> >>> Kevin Eldridge >>> >>> >> Thank you for the heads up and giving Philip our gratitude, Kevin. >> >> Hey LUG'ers, does anyone want to volunteer some wiki hosting? >> Alternatively, we might consider forming an NLUG group on Github and taking >> advantage of their free Web hosting for our info page. What do y'all think? >> >> Amber Adams >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+...@ >> googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ >> group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
