Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Richard Pieri
Eric Chadbourne wrote: I just opened a private window and googled boston linux group and blu was #1. Bing: BLU #1. Baidu: BLU #2 -- after Boston Blender User Group at #1. So, um, yeah, unless you're targeting the Chinese search market I don't see any point in wasting time and money on SEO.

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm not volunteering any effort here (way too busy), and I'm not even saying that we should undertake any SEO effort; just throwing in .02 to clarify: The purpose of doing some of the SEO tactics that Tom mentions would be to increase BLU's visibility when people search for redhat configuration,

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:20:47PM -0400, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: I'm not volunteering any effort here (way too busy), and I'm not even saying that we should undertake any SEO effort; just throwing in .02 to clarify: The purpose of doing some of the SEO tactics that Tom mentions would

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Richard Pieri
Greg, BLU isn't a front-line help desk. It's an advocacy group. It's very much the wrong place for random people looking for redhat configuration or apache vs. nginx information. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: Greg, BLU isn't a front-line help desk. It's an advocacy group. It's very much the wrong place for random people looking for redhat configuration or apache vs. nginx information. I agree completely. BLU is an

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread John Abreau
There's always room for improvement. Tom's suggestion to embed videos within a meeting's calendar entry should be simple enough to add to the cgi script. I tried customizing Mailman a number of years ago to change the archive pages to use a php extension, in order to add the common navbar

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
Eric Chadbourne wrote: I just opened a private window and googled boston linux group and blu was #1. Richard Pieri wrote: Bing: BLU #1. Baidu: BLU #2 -- after Boston Blender User Group at #1. Greg Rundlett wrote: If you search Google for Install Linux Boston - you get BLU in the number one

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
John Abreau wrote: I tried customizing Mailman a number of years ago to change the archive pages to use a php extension, in order to add the common navbar include file, but my first few attempts were unsuccessful, and I put it aside when I realized that my changes would be wiped out the next

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread John Abreau
Something that could parse an mbox archive and generate a UI resembling Blogger would be nice. If it could recognize threads and post followup messages as comments to the thread instead of as new threads, that would be even better. Recognizing quoted text, and filtering or collapsing it like gmail

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Richard Pieri
Hypermail and MHonArc are the go-to tools for turning mailboxes into HTML monsters. There's Eyebrowse but that's all about throwing Java and databases at mail files and is rather more intensive on the server side than the mostly static output from Hypermail and MHonArc. Making mailing list

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Martin Owens
I don't post often but... On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 15:24 -0400, Tom Metro wrote: The purpose of doing some of the SEO tactics that Tom mentions would be to increase BLU's visibility when people search for redhat configuration, apache versus nginx etc. This would help build the user base of

[Discuss] fun interview with Poul-Henning Kamp and a tutorial on jails. also what do you like to watch?

2013-10-18 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Hi All, I haven't thought about bsd in a while. I think a few years back we had a meeting about it. If I remember correctly they didn't have a proper package manager back then. I also really like the gpl. Nevertheless watching Alan Jude on podcasts has me thinking it's time to revisit

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread John Abreau
I've added an evt_youtube table to the BLU calendar's postgresql database and populated it with the ids of all the BLU videos in my youtube account, and I've updated the calendar cgi script to use the new table. Videos are now embedded in the calendar pages. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:30 PM, John

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Hypermail... The default appearance is as bad as pipermail, and this FAQ on altering the font: http://www.hypermail-project.org/hypermail-faq.html#8 suggests it has a pretty antiquated presentation layer and lacks templating. And integrating a search engine is left as an

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 10/18/2013 1:30 PM, John Abreau wrote: ... and I put it aside when I realized that my changes would be wiped out the next time I ran yum update. Not necessarily. Here's what RPM does if you make local modifications to a file, and then try to update the package: - if the file you modified

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
Martin Owens wrote: Greg Rundlett wrote: The purpose of doing some of the SEO tactics that Tom mentions would be to increase BLU's visibility when people search for redhat configuration, apache versus nginx etc. That proposed rational is unethical. Making google search results serve the

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: A better approach, if they'd go for it, would be getting mail-archive.com to enhance their platform to permit some list-specific [emedding]. I sent an email to mail-archive.com to see if they'd be willing to support this. I see Gmane now offers a form of rudimentary