[Aslug] Meeing Wed night 13th July

[Edan Baxter]

Hi Ken/ all,

What about just using subdomain "blog.aslug.org.au" for a wordpress install
or similar?

Using aslug.wordpress.com is fine too but I'm not sure about how much it is
able to be customised/ if it can be easily transferred at a later date.

Happy to go ahead and make it happen..

Edan




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On 12 July 2011 16:54, Ken T <professorsnapper at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, I'm in for a meeting tomorrow night.
> On my mind for discussion:
>
> 1) I've begun to explore Linux on tiny devices - anyone heard of Raspberry
> Pi yet? Looking forward to it being out later this year...
>
> 2) Also on my mind is continuing the discussion about how to tweak the
> ASLUG
> website to make it more democratic / accessible / updateable by anyone
> who's
> part of the LUG, and lower the barrier for participation in doing so -
> logging in via SSH / VNC just doesn't seem necessary with modern tools like
> WordPress or other easy-to-use CMS'es (e.g. Concrete 5).
>
> Further, There have been several interesting discussions, proposals,
> initiatives etc which have begun at face-to-face meetings, but have had
> short-lived stints on the mailing list - with the depth and breadth of
> tech-savvy present in this group, I'm sure we can come up with a better way
> to facilitate on-going dialogue than this mailing-list, which IMHO isn't so
> great for being able to track the ongoing development of, or present state
> of, any given initiative / idea / discussion.
>
> Sure, there's free hosting offered through the current provider, but we
> could easily have a free site hosted through the likes of WordPress, and
> even have public-facing and member-only areas of the site. Having said
> that,
> I do like the idea of promoting openness and transparency with the LUG.
>
> Edan, I believe you were looking at establishing a WordPress site - where
> are you at currently on this? I say we could set up
> aslug.wordpress.comeasily and risk-free, and begin to play with it...
> what do you folks think?
>
> 3) Further to the above, I've been thinking of earlier discussions at the
> meetings about attracting further community participation - seems to me
> that
> cultivating the modder / hacker (as distinct from "cracker") culture, and
> free / open-source culture more broadly, rather than simply users of Linux
> OS, are focii I could be interested in being a part of.
>
> Thanks,
> K.
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