That choice of tech is similar to what I had in mind, and making it easy to maintain is crucial. Using markdown for content would make publishing the analog blog pretty straight forward.
As for the domain, I agree that we should move away from rubyonrails.com.au to something like sydney.ruby.org.au or melbourne.ruby.org.au with a similar site structure and link backs to keep the content, calendar and events localized. Either way I think it's about time something was done about it and I'm volunteering my time and I'd love to hear what the rest of the community thinks. Regards, Ivan Vanderbyl Sent from my iPhone On 07/01/2012, at 10:44 PM, Steven Ringo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
