[SLUG] Club portal software

2007-03-22 Thread Carlo Sogono
I've been tasked to create/maintain the website of a motorcycle club of which I am a member of. In short I would like some basic functionality in it like news-tracking, polls, calendar and maybe a simple forum. I know there are heaps of CMS software available but I'd like to try one a few that

[SLUG] SLUG website down?

2007-03-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I was doing some googling and followed a link to the list archive only to find the SLUG website completely AWOL. Are people aware of this? Is there anything I can do to help? Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +--

Re: [SLUG] SLUG website down?

2007-03-22 Thread David P
Works For Me (tm). David On 3/22/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I was doing some googling and followed a link to the list archive only to find the SLUG website completely AWOL. Are people aware of this? Is there anything I can do to help? Cheers, Erik -- +---

Re: [SLUG] SLUG website down?

2007-03-22 Thread David Kempe
Hi, yeah we lost a disk in array on the server that hosts the VM. It kinda failed and un-failed and then finally died. Its OK now, just not redundant until we replace the disk tomorrow so it might go down again :) Sorry for any inconvience... thanks dave Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all,

Re: [SLUG] SLUG website down?

2007-03-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I was doing some googling and followed a link to the list > archive only to find the SLUG website completely AWOL. > > Are people aware of this? Is there anything I can do to help? Seems to be back. Thanks to all involved. Erik -- +---

Re: [SLUG] Club portal software

2007-03-22 Thread david
I'm doing similar things with Drupal... seems ok to me I hadn't used similar CMS before and it took me a while to get my head around the basics, but then it was fine. If you do use it, apt-get for Ubuntu is way behind.. I would download from the drupal site. I don't know about other distros. On

Re: [SLUG] Club portal software

2007-03-22 Thread Zhasper
I hereby second drupal, including the reccomendation to install from source. Does news tracking, polls, calendar, and simple forums. The project as a whole is heavily slanted toward community-building sites, and groups like civicspace have done even more work to push it in that direction. On 22/

Re: [SLUG] Club portal software

2007-03-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:44:56PM +1100, Zhasper wrote: > I hereby second drupal, including the reccomendation to install from source. > Does news tracking, polls, calendar, and simple forums. > > The project as a whole is heavily slanted toward community-building sites, > and groups like civicsp

Re: [SLUG] Club portal software

2007-03-22 Thread Carlo Sogono
Lindsay Holmwood wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:44:56PM +1100, Zhasper wrote: I hereby second drupal, including the reccomendation to install from source. Does news tracking, polls, calendar, and simple forums. The project as a whole is heavily slanted toward community-building sites, and gr

[SLUG] March SLUG Monthly meeting + AGM

2007-03-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all! == March SLUG Monthly Meeting == When: 18.30, Friday, 30 March, 2007 Where: Level 13, IBM Building, 601 Pacific Highway, St. Leonards SLUG's monthly meeting + AGM, featuring the normal AGM bits and a general talk. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge.

[SLUG] ubuntu server

2007-03-22 Thread jam
Hi The only way that I've been able to install ubuntu on my pentium-m laptop is this bizare sequence: 1) Install server on laptop After install boot fails with a register dump 2) install server on a desktop machine 3) apt-get the generic image (not the server!) 4) boot the lappie on knoppix.