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!
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