On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:51 PM, David Kaplan <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a website that will not bring any new people to it. I guess this group > cares little about getting new people to try Linux out. I don't use it. > I've > got my own site to promote Linux. > > When this group is ready to get new people to try Linux out. Let me know. > > Dave > Dave! Ouch. I think we're all interested in having new people try Linux out. It just sounds to me like some here are more enthusiastic than others to tackle the page. I'm on board anyway -- this officially constitutes "letting you know." Let's do this thing. I've been hosting a Wordpress for the last seven years or so, so I can tackle a more enticing "skin" for the plug page perhaps. Although, as Keith noted earlier in the thread, that will eventually mean some Real Work (tm) and not just flapping my chops, which is after all why I like posting to this mailing list in the first place. I think the design of the PLUG page should mirror that of other open source / academic web documents -- a simple "html presentation is about good enough for me" style look. Underneath the hood, it should be a standards compliant XHTML document that validates (the front page currently has 1 error and 14 warnings.) I currently try to achieve this with my personal website, although there's still too much CSS for it to be fully "cool." Given that the mailing lists are the source of up-to-date news, the archives should be presented to the user as a First Class feature on the website, I would say. There should probably be a good /dev/null session throughout the site, too. Generally, the page's content should probably remain general and relative. "We meet on the first thursday of every month," is more maintainable than "Our next meeting is October 12, 2002," etc. Time-sensitive information could be left to the mail archives, or even the popular website plug to: "Come join us on IRC." _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug