Regarding the comment on my being slightly out-of-the-way these days... While geographically that is very much the case, I'm actually spending more time with Perl now than have for quite some time. Hopefully, when I get back in September I'll be able to give a presentation on Jifty (http://www.jifty.org). I'm using it to build a database for education and medical record keeping at a school here for developmentally disabled children.
Regarding the website... On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Andrew Moore wrote: > > I presumed that David didn't like the outdated information since he > mentioned at the last meeting that he thought the site should just > point to the mailing list. I pretty much stripped down the site and > left some general meeting information and a link to the mailing list > archives. The old pages are still there, and we can update or restore > them if there's any interest. Thanks for taking the initiative on this. I wasn't at the meeting, and didn't see any notes on what was discussed besides what you'd already mentioned. So if I'm coming at this from an angle perpendicular to the general consensus let me know. Before I start, let me drop a reference to the waybackmachine for reviewing old versions of the website: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kc.pm.org Since we haven't had any news in a long time... I can certainly see dropping the News link. However, as we've just had a meeting... perhaps it'd be just as well to update it. It's nice to have the historical record. Time permitting, it'd be nice to fish references to meeting summaries out of the mail archives and link them in like was done for book reviews. I know there's been at least one or two meetings that slipped between the cracks since the last time the page was updated. Minimally, I'd recommend restoring the links to the Reviews and Jobs pages. The Jobs page is very much up-to-date, as it is a syndicate of the http://jobs.perl.org/rss site. FYI: there is a link pointing to us from that URL. At one point they'd told me they planned on adding regional and/or state based search criteria, but it doesn't look like they've gotten around to that yet. And I've run across references to the Reviews page via google when looking for book reviews. So that's another easy path that leads people to our site. We might update and merge About and Contacts. There's definitely some redundancy and inconsistency there. On one page I'm listed as the moderator... and on the other both David and I are listed. It's nice to have a page where someone interested in KC.PM ongoings can find info on how to contact someone without having to subscribe to the list. Over the years, I received enough emails from lurkers and people new to the area... to justify it. Andy, I'd also recommend adding your name to the list. You've been around and involved long enough in keeping the group alive and running to merit making it as official as these things get. thoughts? cheers, Garrett _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
