Thanks everyone for your input. In the interests of making progress, I'd like to propose:
- The informational site will be hosted on Github pages; I've used this for a number of websites before, it's reliable, we can point an external domain to it, and I imagine that most of the likely contributors have Github accounts already. - The pages will be generated by a Python static site generator. There doesn't seem to be a strong feeling between Sphinx/Nikola/Pelican, so it will likely depend on who is most excited to start building it. - The game feed will also be generated from content in Github, so *at first* developers will need to submit a PR to add a game. Once that's working, we can build a simpler submission interface on Heroku/Appengine/similar which can push content to Github. Ideally the data will be in a format which would could move elsewhere later if necessary. I like the concept of drawing the game feed from an external source, but I don't think any of the sources proposed match what we want closely enough. Does anybody object to any of those proposals? Thanks, Thomas On 18 December 2016 at 20:18, Miriam English <m...@miriam-english.org> wrote: > http://ibiblio.org is an enormous, free repository that also lets you > have static webpages. Many of the Linux distros are hosted from there as > well as much else too. I don't know how you'd set up a comments system > there. It may be possible. > > http://archive.org is another gigantic free repository. They already have > a comments system built into their pages. I don't know how it works. It > might be worth checking out. > > Both these organisations are free and are aimed at helping make content > available to the community which might otherwise be lost. You have complete > control over the look of webpages at ibiblio.org because you simply > upload static pages. > > I don't know how much control over the look archive.org provides because > everything is dynamically served from xml data, I think. It might be > possible to add static content, I don't know. > > But both are free, permanently available, and have excellent security. > > Cheers, > > - Miriam > > > > Peter Shinners wrote: > >> Gitlab also has great static site support for free, and you can use >> custom domains. They also make it easy to run most static generation tools >> as a CI job. Although part of me thinks just pushing the static content is >> easiest. It sounds to me like there's a list of acceptable hosting choices >> that won't cost anything. >> >> Keeping the games list as a feed from other service sounds like it has >> the best chance of working. >> >> >> On 12/17/2016 10:51 PM, Lenard Lindstrom wrote: >> >>> Bitbucket also has static web site support. I set one up for the Pygame >>> docs awhile ago, but have not maintained it: >>> >>> http://pygame.bitbucket.org/docs/pygame/ >>> >>> The repository is here: >>> >>> https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame.bitbucket.org >>> >>> Lenard Lindstrom >>> >>> On 16-12-17 09:16 PM, Daniel Foerster wrote: >>> >>>> You know, I suppose we could just use GitHub pages. >>>> >>>> On Dec 17, 2016 17:32, "Charles Cossé" <cco...@gmail.com <mailto: >>>> cco...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Daniel Foerster >>>> <pydsig...@gmail.com <mailto:pydsig...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Using S3/CloudFront is a lot cheaper than the EC2 setup you're >>>> imagining (and which a Django stack would require). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I never said to use Amazon at all. Just use the current server, >>>> whatever it is (unless it's Amazon). >>>> >>>> On 12/17/2016 05:11 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yikes! who's gonna pay the Amazon bill? >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Paul Vincent Craven >>>>> <p...@cravenfamily.com <mailto:p...@cravenfamily.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If most of the site is static, then I think Django would >>>>> be overkill. The static portion of the site can easily be >>>>> deployed via Amazon S3/CloudFront and then we'd not have >>>>> to maintain a server. >>>>> >>>>> Paul Vincent Craven >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Charles Cossé >>>>> <cco...@gmail.com <mailto:cco...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Kluyver >>>>> <tak...@gmail.com <mailto:tak...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> So far, I think the proposals for the static >>>>> information part of the site are Nikola (a static >>>>> site generator oriented around blogs) and Sphinx >>>>> (oriented around docs). Both are written in >>>>> Python. Does anyone want to make the case for any >>>>> other system? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Can Django factor-in there? I guess it would reside >>>>> underneathe the other pkgs ... but might as well run >>>>> Python through-and-through imho. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-cosse> | >>>>> E-Learning <http://www.asymptopia.org> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-cosse> | E-Learning >>>> <http://www.asymptopia.org> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > -- > There are two wolves and they're always fighting. > One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. > Which wolf wins? > Whichever one you feed. > -- Casey in Brad Bird's movie "Tomorrowland" > >
