Hi Seasons greetings to everyone and thanks for the big welcome.
I will be at the next meeting without a doubt so you can see me in the flesh but meanwhile - I am an enterprise based programmer and designer, you can find me in quite a few books/magazines, i have won alot of awards and my work also involves being a full database/server administrator. I work for quite a few big clients such as E.ON, Adaptec, Intel, nCipher, WWF and quite a few smaller companies from sole-traders to anyone who needs help - size matters not to me, everyone is important! I am cross-platform, working on both Linux [i.e. RedHat/Fedora/CentOS] and Windows[i.e. NT/2000/2003] and I speak many languages/frameworks from PHP to ASP, ASP.NET to RUBY, C# to VB, CSS to AJAX, XML to WAP, LINGO to ACTIONSCRIPT etc ... I have dabbled in Python, C++, Java and many others ... and I love making computer speak easy to understand. I work with various tools from Dreamweaver to Visual Studio, Flash to Director, Photoshop to GIMP, Fireworks to Indesign etc.. etc... and you can find my homepage @ http://www.hangar17.net . I also build computers [commercially], networks [lan or wan commercially], web servers [commercially] and do all of the above on a daily basis for individuals and companies in several countries at anytime of day or night. I even work abroad when necessary - it comes with the territory :-) I've been doing the above for quite a long time and without wanting to sound like an advertisement - i will quickly say that helping you guys would be a pleasure :-) Being honest it would be true to say i have little experience of Mambo or Joomla - i generally work with the raw operating system itself - so I don't see a possible 'software learning curve' as an issue at all; but would it not be true to say that both Mambo and Joomla are merely GUI management systems and neither software solution suggests the servers ability to host PHP/RUBY or MySQL/Postgre to enable a forum? I have no idea who supplies the server and if there are any costs involved but if the server does not support these items then has the group ever considered moving to a VPS server and using cPanel/fantastico or similar which would be far superior and easier to use??? Regarding a forum - if the server supported it: I would suggest that the easiest option would be to install a copy of PHPBB or similar which would be nice 'n' quick and would do the job perfectly but whatever the group decides as a whole the website should be attractive/accessible and friendly - especially by trying to show that the Linux desktop does not require a 'degree in computing' and is an amazing opportunity not to be missed! Not to worry though these are merely suggestions and I will leave it with you guys to make a collective decision on how best to proceed. I appreciate i am the 'new boy in town' ... but without furtherado just know that the offer remains open and as i said - i am more than happy to help out if and where I can. We are all here to learn from each other. BTW. If people do not mind i will update my email address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if that is OK with you guys? It is far easier for me to see your posts that using my psuedo-address. Hope that helps Jonathan Hope that helps Jonathan ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 30 November, 2007 10:29:44 AM Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Next meeting, website, forums, and anything else I fancy talking about substation wrote: > If someone can give me the relevant FTP details I am quite happy to > look after it for you. It's a Joomla based website, you just need a login. If you create yourself an account on the website I can elevate your privileges so you can edit content. I'd feel more comfortable if you have some prior experience of Joomla (or Mambo) though; the backend is not very intuitive (I think). > I could even add a members forum and a few other bits - depending on > the server capabilities and whether you guys like the idea of course :-) We've discussed the forum idea regularly. What would be good would be a mailing list to forum bridge. Splitting the group between a forum and a mailing list would be counterproductive. As a vast over-simplification and over-generalisation, the people who tend to best equipped to answer questions tend not to hang around in forums, so you'll get a community of questioners in one place and answerers in another, and neither get a satisfactory solution. It isn't so bad where there is a large community (indeed it becomes necessary as when a mailing list is just too big to manage) but the traffic here at PLUG isn't close to that league. So in short, a forum would be a great idea IF (and only if) it is linked to the list. When I say "great idea" I mean it, though: a forum would act as a searchable list archive, for one; it'll also be an easier point of entry for less technical people who we should be reaching out to. And it would mean that the website served more of a purpose than it does now. > No shameless plugs here but the 'web and me' are best friends in many > ... many languages :-) You can't leave it like that: what languages/technologies are you familiar with? You got any sites we should look at? PS: Welcome aboard! -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
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