The LUG website[1] has not been updated for a long time and the script that conveyed the next meet's date also has broken. So I decided to try my hand at designing a website for the lug.
This design too uses a script to automatically display the date of the meeting. It uses Python's string templates and the daily cron-job to display the date. Over the past few months I have noticed that quite a few people who attend the meet are not on the mailing list (like the students of the college where we meet and some people who drop in out of curiosity). We could have the agenda posted on the website home page with an RSS[2] link to inform people. The agenda contents are read from a ReSt[3] text file and converted to (X)HTML and written into the page. Not too many people know that the LUG has a wiki. It is an invitation-only wiki to prevent spammers from creating havoc. I request people who are interested in contributing to apply for membership with the webmaster. We can also maintain a list of all events happening around at the events page (boy! with so many foss confs going on...it's tough to be constantly updated). We can have a gallery with photos from the monthly meets(probably videos too, if people start getting their handycams ;-) ). For this I plan to use the Gallery[4]. Another new feature is the ILugHyd Planet. Keep in touch with bloggers who write about the foss movement. For a test, I have added three or four bloggers from the LUG. This is auto-generated by Planet[5] The site that I have designed is available here[6]. I want people to view it and suggest changes, features and criticisms. Offers of help are also welcome. [1] http://ilughyd.org.in [2] RSS: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html [3] ReSt: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html [4] Gallery: http://gallery.menalto.com/ [5] Planet: http://www.planetplanet.org/ [6] http://puthraya.webfactional.com/ Cheers Thejaswi Puthraya http://thejaswi.info/
