Hey Guys,
I have been using the rubyonrails.com.au domain to put some basic info
about upcoming meetings for rorosyd meetups. However this is no longer
tenable and would love to get something going that we can use for all of us.
A quick history on how we got here:
* The site was hosted with Segment (Jermey Bogan) on an old Mephisto
(I think) install. It was borked and inaccessible.
* I took a snapshot and stuck the html in git to have a record of it,
and I have been editing that in git.
* We are using github pages to host the static HTML.
* We had a lot of issues with getting Jeremy to point the DNS to the
right place. To get him to action anything is virtually impossible.
* Recently the rubyonrails.com.au domain expired. I tried to see if we
could get him to relinquish control but he won't.
When the idea of Ruby Australia came up, and because this is more than
just a Sydney thing, was going to bring it up around about now, but you
guys have already done that!
I would have come to Railscamp, but my wife is only a few weeks away
from the birth of our first child :-)
I guess we would need to decide if this is a national thing or a local
thing, and also what domain to put it under. I also don't think we
should use rubyonrails.com.au anymore. We're not just about Rails, and
the owner of the domain has us over a barrel and is very inflexible
about it. Something under the banner/domain of Ruby Australia could be
an option or, we create a new domain name just for the user groups. We
can then 301 all requests to rubyonrails.com.au to the new domain.
I think a git/markdown Jekyll-ish or similar static site that can be
updated using git would be ideal. I started creating a Jekyll-based
(Octopress actually) site for Rorosyd, but haven't taken it much further.
Love to hear your thoughts, and wish I could be at Railscamp. However be
happy to contribute remotely.
Thanks,
Steve
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