[TriLUG] TriLUG Website Infrastructure

[Jonathan Mainguy]

Dudle seems about as frictionless as it gets, and allows Trilug to remain
in control of the data, rather then hand another service to google. I
believe Trilug should do everything possible to host services using FOSS
and stay away from Google services unless absolutely necassary.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/about.cgi

Example meeting using their service, but I recommend we just grab the
source and host it ourselves.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/Trillug_meeting/


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Jeremy Davis
<jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz>wrote:

> If you want my two bitcoins, the all inclusive solution we are looking for
> here is Sharepoint!....LOL :-)
>
> Ok, on a more serious note..
> Friction - For a signup roster, a Google spreadsheet set to "public all can
> edit" is about as frictionless as it gets and it is also super easy to make
> a form to populate it. Spam issues are minimal. It is not open source, it
> is not a wiki, and you should consider why this incredible service is free,
> however, it is frictionless and ridiculously easy.
>
> Wordpress would have the easiest solutions for everyone *except* the guy
> who maintains the security of it. Frequent backups are a must and there are
> ways to harden the security.
>
> Benefits include:
> CMS is the easiest
> Plugins to push updates to Git
> Responsive theme to adjust content and navigation to screen size - mobile,
> tablet, PC, etc...
> Gravity Forms to collect info which also includes drag and drop Captcha
> feature to slow down the spam
> BuddyPress theme could enable users to customize their own "Facebook like"
> profiles with feeds etc..
> BuddyPress Wiki plugin provides easy tools for updating and editing
> LDAP is an option, which would help address the wiki and user account
> management
> Analytics - just copy paste the Google analytics code into a field in the
> CMS and you have incredible stats. Also WordPress provides some statistical
> information right out of the box.
> All-In-One SEO pack plugin submits posts to all major search engines if
> indexing is a concern (this plugin developer is hosting Raleigh WordCamp
> 2013)
> WP can also be easily automated to push published posts via RSS to our
> Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and email subscribers, which cuts down on PR
> work
>
> BTW WordCamp is this weekend at NCSU!
>
> Cheers!
> Jeremy Davis
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Matt Pusateri
> > <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> > > I’d like to to hear the issues, that are holding us back as a group.  I
> > can
> > > see where there current versions are dated.  But I’d like to know what
> > > problems are trying to be solved?
> >
> > 1. Friction - If you want to increase community involvement you must
> > reduce the friction for contributors to contribute. Our members find
> > it difficult to contribute information to the website. To edit a page
> > on trilug.org you need to enter the simple spam blocking username and
> > password, create an account, authenticate with the wiki, and then
> > enter the editing mode. We have received numerous complaints from
> > users when they have failed to collaboratively edit stuff in the past.
> > An example was last years Dec party sign-up on the wiki. Over the last
> > 365 days we have had a total of 4 editors touching only 3 pages.
> >
> > 2. Search - The trilug website is not indexed by search engines
> > because we implemented a simple short term spam block for the wiki.
> > This short term solution has been in place for a couple of years.
> >
> > 3. Authentication - having multiple passwords on the same site sucks.
> > We use LDAP for shell accounts, so why not use the same credentials
> > for other services.
> >
> > 4. Markdown, GIT, etc. - As a leading technology group we should be
> > keeping up with the our wider community.
> >
> > 5. Analytics - almost non-existant. Which services should we be
> > putting our effort into ? Moderating email lists ? Helping people on
> > IRC ? Adding content to the website ? Numbers would help.
> >
> >
> > If we can solve some of these problems, I think we can grow our
> > community and encourage participation. Once this is done I would like
> > to see us move to offer more services, like dynamic dns, firefox sync,
> > personal wiki's.
> >
> > Bill
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