To reiterate my point on message traffic on this mailing list. On Monday I received ONE message from SLUG, this follows the SINGLE message I received on Friday. Although there are other LUG's in SLUG, nominally, covers the whole country, over 5 million potential members, two messages in four days.
All,
I'm quite convinced of the ground-swell of approval for avoiding an Ipswich LUG split and I don't see a problem with starting out on the ALUG mailing list. It's easy enough to change later, if there's any issues, anyway.
I've sent Dave a mail off-list and, as long as we can agree on a website which we can make use of, I hope there won't be a need for a split.
The main concern is that all the LUGs in Anglia have easy access to their website etc. because they run their own infrastructure locally - so it's simply a matter of talking to the administrators at the LUG meets to try new stuff. Unfortunately, we won't have that opportunity at Ipswich meets, if the server's being administered by someone further away, e.g. Norwich. That shouldn't be a problem, I just want to make sure we'll end up with a website which is flexible enough for those of us further away to easily add content, i.e. a user-focused wiki. I think Dave et al are intending to move toward this direction so hopefully we should be able to sort something out.
I'm delighted there's been so much feedback on the topic, tho .. :)
It's a good sign!
Peter.
OK,
I'm afraid I haven't heard back from the last couple of mails I sent off-list regarding the website over the last week, so currently I think the best plan is for our members to use the ALUG mailing lists, which will keep everyone up to date with what's going on. As far as the website is concerned, though, I'm leaning towards implementing a "quick" MediaWiki site as originally suggested. If/when the ALUG website is designed to offer the same kind of functionality, we can look at de-commissioning the Ipswich site. This way, we can avoid piling on pressure to the current ALUG site owners to rush something through just for us and we won't be left feeling homepage-less whilst waiting.
In the meantime, there's a temporary webpage up here which contains information on the Feb 19th meeting:
http://www.bagshot-row.org/iplug/
We'll go through this email/website discussion at the meeting and come to a firm, democratic conclusion.
I've also posted the meeting to the Announcements list, so that should come through when it's been approved.
Hope to see some of you there!
Peter.
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