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

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Nothing against the guy, but that page looks like one of those 'under
construction' pages I used to see in 1996 or so. Not a very good
example for his wish #3 (Web 2.0 site etc.) :-)

Grig

--- "Howard B. Golden" <howard_b_golden at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- 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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