Re: [Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG - virtual meet May 16th

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

Looks like I missed that one.

Were any plans made for the next meeting, so that I can add it to my 
virtual diary?


Cheers,

Chris

On 15/05/2020 17:00, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote:

Rather late notice, but there will be a virtual meet this Saturday 16th
May. The days and weeks seem to blend together at the moment - it was
suggested (a while back) that it was 2 NHS claps and 2 days to the next
meet!

The meet will be slightly later than normal at 2pm to give everyone
enough time to have lunch - virtual sandwiches aren't as filling!

To join head to:

https://meet.jit.si/plugmay

I'm not sure whether Jitsi has issues with random people joining, but
just in case I will set a password of 'sat16'. If for some reason the
URL above has been grabbed I will update via the list and website (you
don't seem to be able to reserve them).

I've used Firefox with my tests, but I have heard that some have had
issues and recommend Chrome or Chromium. There is also an app that you
will be asked to download if you are using Android or Apple (it is also
available through F-Droid).

See and/or hear you there - so to speak!

Keep safe.

Thanks,
Paul



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Re: [Hampshire] Au revoir mes amis

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

Dear Adam

It's very sad that that it's come to this for people.  How about hosting 
a special HantsLUG meeting in sunny Brittany sometime? 'Bringing a box' 
all that way could be tricky though.


Best of luck.

A bientôt.

Chris

On 03/10/2018 03:58, A. J. Trickett via Hampshire wrote:

Dear LUG,

It is with a heavy heart that at the end of September we sold our
house and left not only Hampshire but England for France. As some
of you may have known my wife is French and the recent political
changed have made things awkward, so elected to move and for the
past few days we have been unpacking boxes in our new house just
across the channel in Brittany.

I'll remain on the list probably to the end of the year, but then
fall off.

Bonne chance !



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Re: [Hampshire] Maintenance Downtime

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

On 19/02/18 19:43, Andy Ransom via Hampshire wrote:

Hi folks,

The Hants LUG server and hence the website will be down for maintenance
sometime during the window 2018-02-21 03:00 to 04:00, I appreciate this is
unlikely to be an issue for anyone but this is just a heads up.

This will not affect the mailing list which is run by lug.org.uk, but all
Lug.org.uk machines will also be affected in the window 2018-02-22
00:00 to 02:00

While I have your attention I'd also like to say thanks to Andy Smith at
Bitfolk (https://bitfolk.com/) for providing these services to the
community.

Andy


And thank you to Andy Ransom for giving the HantsLUG server some much needed 
TLC.


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Re: [Hampshire] Linux support required in Southampton

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

On 29/06/17 13:29, Chris Dennis via Hampshire wrote:

Hello HantsLuggers

I've just had a phone call from someone in Southampton who needs support for a 
couple of Linux laptops.  They've had all sorts of issues, and bad experiences 
of people offering to provide help but only making things worse.

They have one old laptop with important data on it, and a newish Dell that came 
with Ubuntu but doesn't work properly.

If anyone who lives nearer Southampton than me (I'm in Fordingbridge) is 
interested in providing support (in exchange for money), then please contact me 
off list, and I'll put you in touch.

Cheers

Chris


Thank you to those who replied.  I've put the potential client in contact with 
a Southampton-based HantsLugger, so hopefully the problems will all get solved.

Cheers

Chris

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[Hampshire] Linux support required in Southampton

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

Hello HantsLuggers

I've just had a phone call from someone in Southampton who needs support for a 
couple of Linux laptops.  They've had all sorts of issues, and bad experiences 
of people offering to provide help but only making things worse.

They have one old laptop with important data on it, and a newish Dell that came 
with Ubuntu but doesn't work properly.

If anyone who lives nearer Southampton than me (I'm in Fordingbridge) is 
interested in providing support (in exchange for money), then please contact me 
off list, and I'll put you in touch.

Cheers

Chris



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Re: [Hampshire] HTTPS Certificate problem

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

On 07/02/17 11:20, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote:


... I recently added my pop/imap mail server certificates to the process as
well (I'd forgotten they were still with StartSSL) and that was much easier
than expected - took about 10 minutes including working out how to do it :)

Can you point me to information about that?  I need to create IMAP/SSL 
certificates for a domain where the website is on a hosting service that 
doesn't seem to allow the use of LetsEncrypt (they want to provide the HTTPS 
certificates in exchange for money(!)), and I can't work out how to get 
LetsEncrypt certificates just for email.

Cheers

Chris

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Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

Hi Folks

Just a reminder: you can register to vote at the AGM by e-mailing 
webmas...@hantslug.org.uk with the subject "votereg".  Please include your name 
in the e-mail.

I hope as many members as possible will come to the meeting to decide the 
future of the LUG.

On the other hand, please don't register if you're not planning to come to the 
meeting -- that would just make it more difficult to reach a quorum of voting 
members.

Cheers,

Chris Dennis
HantsLUG Webmaster

On 15/08/16 19:32, Tim Brocklehurst via Hampshire wrote:

Good evening everybody,

I'm pleased to announce that the AGM will be held in the Mucky Duck in
Winchester at 7:30pm on the 31st August.

I hope to see lots of you there. Don't forget to register!

Tim B.




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Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

On 12/08/16 18:43, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote:

** Andy via Hampshire  [2016-08-11 23:54]:

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, Lisi Reisz via Hampshire wrote:

On Thursday 11 August 2016 21:10:35 Tony Whitmore via Hampshire wrote:



For what it is worth (and assuming that a group of new and enthusiastic
individuals doesn't step forward to form a new committee) I will be voting
for option 2

Likewise, it would be a shame for the LUG to fold, and that seems to be the
best way of keeping the list in tact. Having been here through thick and thin
since sometime in the late '90s I'd be sad to see the list go the way of others
I've been on like the LBC (Linux Buyers Consortium if anyone remembers that
one!).


2) The committee is disbanded and the constitution suitably updated to
enable a sole LUG member to act as benefactor; to maintain the mailing
list and optionally the website as they see fit with a suitable degree of
consultation from the membership. In this case the current LUG funds will
not be handed over to the benefactor.

and if nobody else wants the job I will volunteer as the LUG "benefactor",
though I admit I'm unlikely to have time to do much other than answer a few
emails each month.

I'm happy to back up Andy to spread the load on managing the list / website
(simplified as per the PLUG one I should think) and to do as we do at PLUG and
ensure multiple lugmasters.


That would be excellent.

The only ongoing cost would be £6 per year to keep the domain name.

The content of the current website (and it's previous wiki incarnation), which 
was excellent in its day but is now mostly obsolete, can be archived onto paper 
tape or whatever the trendy storage medium is these days.

As the current web/hostmaster, I will be more than happy to hand over control 
to someone new when a decision has been made.

I don't think I ever took over complete control of the mailing list -- one 
Adrian Bridgett has that honour, as I recall.  I do have an administrative 
password for it though.

Cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Hampshire] Village History Website

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

On 05/05/16 18:03, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:

Chris Dennis asks:

I've had a look at other local history sites around the country, and most of
them are somewhere between awful and broken.  I haven't found one yet that makes
me think "Yes, we'll do it like that."

Does anyone have any suggestions?

You could contact the Society of One Place Studies and ask whether
they can give any advice about what constitutes a "good" web site
for this sort of thing - what their members would expect or like to
see, or have already done.

http://one-place-studies.org/

Peter Alefounder.



Thanks for that, Peter.  We'll do that.

Regards,

Chris


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Re: [Hampshire] Village History Website

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

On 05/05/16 17:09, Tim via Hampshire wrote:

On 05/05/16 16:02, Chris Dennis via Hampshire wrote:

On 05/05/16 07:14, Keith Edmunds via Hampshire wrote:

On Wed, 4 May 2016 22:42:26 -0700, hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk said:


It’s not much data, and I think you can just let Wordpress find the
assets on disk

I concur. You're trying to fix a problem you don't have (yet), and
Wordpress frequently handles large sites without much problem.

Thanks all for your replies.

I think I will stick with WordPress.  I was worried that users would
get bogged down trying to find documents and images in WP's single
list, but I'll try the 'Pods' plugin when looks like it can make it
easy to add more post types ('documents', 'maps', etc.) and ways of
categorising them.

Cheers

Chris



Would there be anything in using some form of photo album like Gallery
(http://galleryproject.org/) to display the documents? I don't have any
experience of this other than having a small photo gallery on one of my
sites, you might have to scan and save them as jpg rather than pdf??


Tim

Thanks for the idea, but no -- this project will be more than just pictures.

In fact we've found an excellent site, the quality of which we'll aspire to:

http://www.eastmeonhistory.org.uk/

This site does uses... WordPress.

Cheers

Chris

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Re: [Hampshire] Village History Website

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

On 05/05/16 07:14, Keith Edmunds via Hampshire wrote:

On Wed, 4 May 2016 22:42:26 -0700, hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk said:


It’s not much data, and I think you can just let Wordpress find the
assets on disk

I concur. You're trying to fix a problem you don't have (yet), and
Wordpress frequently handles large sites without much problem.


Thanks all for your replies.

I think I will stick with WordPress.  I was worried that users would get bogged 
down trying to find documents and images in WP's single list, but I'll try the 
'Pods' plugin when looks like it can make it easy to add more post types 
('documents', 'maps', etc.) and ways of categorising them.

Cheers

Chris


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[Hampshire] Village History Website

[Chris Dennis via Hampshire]

Hello HantsLUGgers

I'm starting work on a project to create a history website for a local village. 
 We have very limited funding from the AONB development fund and another 
similar source.

The plan is to put a considerable quantity (thousands, adding up to 10 -- 20 
GB) of scanned documents, photos, maps, etc., along with explanatory text, onto 
the site.  There will be a pilot phase with a small selection of the data.

Once I've set up the site, a few non-techie people will work on adding all the 
data.  The data will then be freely viewable by the general public (although 
I'm guessing that there is a fairly small audience for this sort of local 
interest stuff).

It needs to look 'modern' and interesting, rather than just being page after 
page of dry documents.  So it needs clear structure, flexible layout, and 
moderate use of whizzy graphical effects -- such as zooming in to maps.

So I'm wondering what sort of framework to use.

I think WordPress would quickly become unmanageable with so much data.

I've considered Foswiki, but I don't think the wiki approach really fits -- the 
site will be read-only to most of the visitors.

I've had a look at other local history sites around the country, and most of them are 
somewhere between awful and broken.  I haven't found one yet that makes me think 
"Yes, we'll do it like that."

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Cheers,

Chris

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