The original site was in Zope/Python, the next iteration was Vim and CVS,
and now Drupal/PHP.

I can whip something on GitHub to have people get involved.

Give me a couple of hours

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 13:26 Jimmy via mlug <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wait.. what...  we have a website?  :)  lol.
>
> Here is a thought... only because I am feeling nostalgic today.
>
> Keep the page up, we put the story of MLUG, where it came from, people
> involved, history, some pictures of the meetings in Alan's house, etc...
> And where to find these resources today.  Links to the linkedin group, the
> mailing list, etc...
> (Make sure we build the page in vim) :)
>
> Just a thought.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:46 AM Nick Accad via mlug <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The domain itself costs maybe $20-$25 per year depending on the
>> registrar, Jer is using GoDaddy right now (ew!)
>>
>> That is pretty much the only cost, between the group members, I am sure
>> hosting can be done for free, many of us have our own machines and MLUG
>> does not take that much space or bandwidth.
>>
>> The mailing list is hosted with koumbit.org, and we use a subdomain of
>> MLUG for it, again, that is free (Thanks Koumbit)
>>
>> Historically, the site was hosted by Alan T., then myself, then Jer. The
>> mailing list was hosted by Jimmy A. at one point, I honestly don't recall
>> if I was hosting it at one point or not.
>>
>> (Which reminds me, I have the admin password for the mailing list, I
>> don't know if anyone is monitoring the pending requests)
>>
>> The point is, beyond the domain cost, there is nothing. But Jer's point
>> is: What are we doing with this?
>>
>> I transferred the domain to Jer as well as the ownership of the LinkedIn
>> group because I am simply not active anymore, and because I left Montreal
>> in 2009 and I don't feel it was appropriate for me to still be the "owner"
>> while I don't even live there anymore.
>>
>> This group was started in 2000 by a group of people that are no longer
>> active, the whole LUG concept has declined recently, and there are
>> thousands of sites that do the same thing, nobody is "advocating" Linux, we
>> already won :)
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> -nick
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Leslie Satenstein via mlug <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have the same questions as Hendrik.
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>>> On 19 April 2018 at 07:13, Hendrik Boom via mlug <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 08:51:33AM -0400, Jer via mlug wrote:
>>>> > Hi guys, Nick and I have been carrying on the domain and website on
>>>> our own
>>>> > resources for a long while now. It is basically unused.
>>>> >
>>>> > Is there any point to keeping this going? Is anyone interested in
>>>> taking it
>>>> > over if they think there is a reason to?
>>>> >
>>>> > I like the history and all, but there comes a time to rethink this.
>>>> >
>>>> > As it stands the domain expires 4/26/2018.
>>>> >
>>>> > The only real issue I see is that the listserv is using a subdomain of
>>>> > mlug.ca but I think we can probably find a way around that.
>>>> >
>>>> > Opinions, suggestions welcome.
>>>>
>>>> How much does it cost to keep it going?
>>>> How much storage does it need?
>>>>
>>>> -- hendrik
>>>>
>>>> >
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