Another option would be to use a Google Apps instance. It comes with Sites, Groups, Calendar, etc. Google Sites is like a wiki. Pretty easy to use. Could be a good option. I setup clients on Google Apps instances all the time.
Regards, Jonathan Duncan On 10 Dec 2010, at 14:54, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > The site is already running WordPress, so all the of features you mention are > already available. If P2 is a theme, then it could be installed. Are members > of the group interested in participating in a conversation on uphpuorg such > as the P2 WP theme provides? Of the hundreds of members that we have, only a > small portion participate socially (IRC, meetings, after-parties). Do we > really need another medium for communication or would it be better to just > make it easier to sign up and post to the mailing list (big form, right on > home page) and chat in the channel (web-based, right on home page)? > > > On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Victor Villa <vvi...@gmailcom> wrote: > > Another option would be to host the site on WordPress.com. Using the > P2 theme - demo http://p2demo.wordpress.com/ - might encourage more > posting. > > Great idea Joseph and i think that template is awesome! > > I think shifting to wordpress.com would REALLY open some new doors for uphpu. > > > * ability to delegate to uphpu community members to manage categories that > they are personally interested in > > * ability to have the community to post articles / comments to the UPHPU > website > > * and as you say the template itself encourages quick comments / posts > > I think another part of the cause of the disuse of the website is that it's > really abstracted away from the uphpu individual. there is no way for them > to get involved in helping to keep it up-to-date and take a personal > interest. a step in this direction makes a lot of sense. > > Of course, these are just suggestions, yield to the community, macnewbold et > al., to decide > > mj/v > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
