[TriLUG] [Splat Space] [PROPOSAL] trianglehackers.org - wiki / etc. for all things "hackerdom" in the Triangle

[Jeffrey Crews]

Phil, we appear to be duplicating each other!

A while back I started talking with a social media maven whom I know, and
we were tossing around the idea of a metagroup umbrella for all the
Triangle hackery/makery groups. She was going to present it at the
Lightning Talks at the Library, but fell on the ice that morning and
couldn't make it.

I have kicked this into high gear again with her since yesterday because
TSRDU is closing AND because she is probably going to be leaving the area
for California next month.

My initial idea was:

1. No changes to any group's website, and obviously no governance over any
group
2. One front page with a listing of all participating groups, from which
you could click into any of the individual groups' existing sites.
3. One calendar to which all participating groups can post their events of
interest - it would not replace any individual group's calendar, but would
be one place that anyone could go and see all the stuff in the Triangle for
that month.
4. One forum to which anyone could post news - visits by big names,
upcoming makerfaires or whatever. Obviously this would need to be set up
from the get-go so that we have a clear means of approving or deleting
membership based on spam.
5. Open to any maker/hacker nonprofit or  government group ( by which I
mean specifically library or school tech clubs)

What do you all think? I think the time is ripe, and I can get her in to
have a meeting about this. She's been looking at other areas that have done
something similar.

jsc


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Phillip Rhodes
<motley.crue.fan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Folks;
>
> The recent announcement that TechShop RDU is closing has started a lot of
> discussion about a lot of initiatives / groups / efforts in the triangle
> that could all
> fall under the general banner of "hacking related".  There's talk about
> new hackerspaces, expansion of existing hackerspaces, clubs and meetps are
> looking for new homes, talking about merging, etc., tec.
>
> The whole thing got me to pondering a central site to serve as sort of a
> "meta" resource for ALL groups anywhere in the Triangle, to share
> information, communicate, and coordinate.
>
> There *was* a trianglehackers.com site at one time, but I guess the
> domain owner let it expire, as it seems to just be foreign language spam
> now..
>
> To, to this end, I registered the domain "trianglehackers.org" and am
> offering to donate it to an effort to build this meta resource I spoke of.
> I'm also willing to donate paying for a VPS at Rackspace to host
> $whatever.  My initial thought is to stick a Mediawiki instance up there,
> but I wanted to solicit feedback from the boarder community first.
>
> So:
>
> 1. Does anybody think this is a good idea?
> 2. Or a bad idea?
> 3. Why?
> 4. Are you willing to help?
> 5. How?
> 6. When?
> 7. What would you want associated with the domain?  Just a wiki? Mailing
> list(s)?  Other?  NOTA?  ???
>
> Note that I am *not* proposing a new organization per-se, or anything that
> is intended to compete with, or divert energy from any other group or
> initiative.  The idea is to foster more interaction between groups, promote
> collaboration and cross-promotion, etc.
>
> Also, please forward this to any other groups which you think might be an
> appropriate audience for this.
>
> Phil
>
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