The wiki is still down, partly because I forgot about it. The server problems ceased when the wiki was turned off, so I'm not inclined to turn it on again. I'll put up a static page with the next meeting info... as soon as we decide on a next meeting.
I like Kevin's idea of some kind of version-control based, github-ish website to replace MoinMoin. We should have a Github account anyway to encourage more SeaPIG projects. However, I don't know enough about Github webhosting to know whether we want to commit our website to a third-party service which may limit what we can effectively do with it. I'm also not sure if I like its Markdown-based format. Markdown *is* becoming more and more widely used (a commercial publisher has even standardized on it), and I guess its syntax is the best of the wiki syntaxes and allows direct HTML snippets. So maybe it would be OK. It's ironic because a version-controlled content with some kind of script that converts it to a static HTML site is precisely what Linux Gazette used. We resisted a CMS until the end (it was the early 2000s after all), but now that several years have passed since its demise and newer paradigms have flourished on the Web, several of LG's former editors think that if it were (re)started now they'd go the CMS route. And I have been exploring Kotti and it's got a lot of neat things, even if it's not fully polished yet. But for the SeaPIG's site simple needs, I can see version-controlled content with a static HTML converter as being sufficient. If it allowed attachments, which we'd need for uploading slides and things. Maybe we can talk about it at the next meeting. In the meantime, would somebody care to design a static home page with a place for the next meeting info and a link to the mailing list? The Mailman list is running fine so it's not as urgent to replace, but it will be an issue when I upgrade the OS. (Ubuntu 13.04 is not yet supported on Linode, so it won't be right away.) I still like the idea of migrating to Google Groups at some point. The $240 server bill has been paid so I'm still looking for donations to help offset it. Not tax-deductibe, bla bla bla. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
