[socal-piggies] Fwd: [Sclug] Introducing a new resource for Southern California (L)ugs and other open source oriented groups

[Howard B. Golden]

--- Charles N Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:27:11 -0700
> From: Charles N Wyble <charles at thewybles.com>
> To: sclug at zdi.net
> Subject: [Sclug] Introducing a new resource for
> Southern California (L)ugs
>  and other open source oriented groups
> 
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> Hey all,
> 
> 	As some of you may be aware, I have been working on
> creating a central
> site for Southern California open source oriented
> groups. It has been in
> beta for a few months now, and is now fully
> production ready.
> 
> You can find the site at http://www.socallugs.com
> 
> It currently offers:
> 
> 1) A podcast site at http://casts.socallugs.com
> 
> I have placed recordings from the LiLAX and UUASC
> meetings up at this
> site. More groups will be represented as I attend
> them and record the
> meetings. If you have any meeting recordings you
> would like to post,
> please let me know and I'll be happy to post them on
> the site.
> 
> 2) A media hosting site at
> http://lugmedia.socallugs.com
> 
> A place for presenters to post slides and other
> material (code,
> documentation etc).
> 
> 3) A blog aggregation site at
> http://planet.socallugs.com
> 
> Feel free to submit your (linux/unix/open source
> related) blog for
> regular aggregation.
> 
> Coming Soon:
> 
> 1) A calendar site at http://calendar.socallugs.com.
> 
> Hopefully this can become the definitive reference
> for open source
> events in Southern California. A single RSS feed of
> events that anyone
> can subscribe to from Sunbird, Evolution,
> Korganizer, iCAL and (dare I
> say it?) Outlook.
> 
> 
> 2) A wiki site at http://wiki.socallugs.com
> 
> Feel free to request creation of a wiki for your
> group. I'll create your
> wiki and account and you can have full
> administrative control over the
> wiki. Be secure in the knowledge it is backed up on
> a regular basis and
> is hosted by someone very friendly to LUGS and known
> by many.
> 
> 
> Now you may ask why I am doing this? Well for a few
> reasons:
> 
> 1) Shared infrastructure.
> 
> Groups have enough work to do scheduling speakers,
> securing venues,
> promoting the group. They don't want to spend time
> running
> infrastructure. The goal of the socallugs site is to
> provide wiki,
> calendar, hosting and other services so that groups
> can concentrate on
> being awesome!
> 
> For the most part I want socallugs.com to be a back
> end site. Hosting
> presentation material, media, wiki etc. The
> individual group sites still
> need to exist (I am not offering web site hosting 
> :)
> 
> They can simply have much lower disk space and
> bandwidth requirements.
> 
> 2) Search engine optimization
> 
> The more content that is hosted at socallugs and the
> more people that
> reference it, the more likely it is that search
> engines will return that
> content earlier in a search.
> 
> 3) Experience running a "Web 2.0/Community" website.
> 
> Yes I am looking for another feather to put in my
> cap/on my resume  :)
> 
> 
> What I need from the groups:
> 
> 1) Donations.
> 
> No not money  :)
> 
> Please contact me with podcasts, presentation
> material etc. I have
> plenty of bandwidth and disk space and can
> effortlessly provision more.
> 
> 2) (soon) scheduling information. Still figuring out
> the best way to
> handle that and make it as simple and automated as
> possible.
> 
> 
> By the way I want to thank Dan Kegel for his
> excellent lalugs.org
> website! It contains a lot of scheduling and other
> Linux related
> information.
> 
> I will be working with him on an integrated
> scheduling solution. This is
> not meant to replace his web site as socallugs.com
> is about hosting
> media,blogs,presentation material etc.
> 
> I know several groups have been looking for a better
> way to handle
> scheduling, and lalugs.org is currently the best
> solution. Hopefully we
> can make it even better.
> 
> I think thats about it. I will send out another
> message when the wiki
> and calendar launch. Still thinking about the best
> way to do those.
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