>From time to time a new person takes on running a Melbourne Ruby meetup.
I think the following are necessary if it's going to be used: - super simple process for granting them access to update web page - it should take less than 5 min for them to work out how to add to analogue blog (pref < 1 min) Perhaps a blog on wordpress.com might be the simplest option? - Mike On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Ivan Vanderbyl <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- *- Mike* * * e. [email protected] w. mike.bailey.net.au -- 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.
