HI all:<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Some questions, if nothing else and you are available, please answer this:</div><div><br></div><div>The end:</div><div>Do other sites also use Drupal? (that way we can stretch the knowledge)</div>
<div>Can we set up a work session, say on Saturday morning, to take care of this?</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The beginning </div><div><br></div><div>So I hear a couple of options.</div><div><br></div><div>
1. Update and migrate to a new version of Drupal</div><div>2. Migrate to Wordpress</div><div><br></div><div>In both cases we'd be relying on the IMCs webservers? </div><div>That's sensible since we haven't had the reason or money to pay for outside hosting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am not opposed to that but then would need to contribute to who ever is running the servers since it's a pain to update and defend them.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris, we have had a couple of people volunteer services so it's about time we actually got organized to harness those offers and name a web point person.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have done Drupal/Joomla but am slow. Once set up it's not a big deal but I have little experience migrating. Wordpress is less familiar to me but it's range of features is adequate, I think.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Do other sites also use Drupal? (that way we can stretch the knowledge)<br></div><div><div>Can we set up a work session, say on Saturday morning, to take care of this?</div></div><div><br></div><div><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Stewart Dickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mathartspd@gmail.com" target="_blank">mathartspd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yeah, the thing here is that WRFU/Chambana.net is served locally, at<br>
our own grassroots Internet Service Provider, Chambana.net and not at<br>
a centralized place, like Wordpress.<br>
Thus, the daunting task is up to us to own our own web server.<br>
<br>
This should not be too difficult.<br>
<br>
There are plenty of people who came to the IMC-Tech meetups during the<br>
summer and during Grassroots Radio Conference who know generally how<br>
to do this.<br>
The only missing link is knowing the specifics of the Chambana.net<br>
servers. Chris and Josh King and maybe Stuart Levy know some of<br>
this.<br>
<br>
We need an informal, but functional program of IMC-Tech shadowing,<br>
when server tasks are performed, so that this knowledge can get<br>
transferred out of the hands<br>
and minds of a very few people.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-Stewart<br>
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Dane Spudic <<a href="mailto:danespudic@gmail.com">danespudic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Hey all,<br>
><br>
> Does the website need to be a certain format/style ? I have been the<br>
> webmaster for a volunteer group but it was Wordpress. My partner Melissa and<br>
> I designed this website for our group<br>
> (<a href="http://madinfoshop.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">http://madinfoshop.wordpress.com/about/</a> )<br>
><br>
> It was easy to keep up but since it was free it would have ads on the bottom<br>
> of the webpages that were contradictory to the article (e.g. an article<br>
> criticizing capitalism and commodity fetish with an ad about Black Friday at<br>
> Best Buy.)<br>
><br>
> Dane<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Chris Ritzo <<a href="mailto:chris.ritzo@gmail.com">chris.ritzo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Maybe someone besides me would like to begin organizing IMC tech meetups.<br>
>><br>
>> My free time is tapped right now migrating websites to a new server and<br>
>> working with others to be able to delegate admin rights to those folks who<br>
>> expressed interest in tech work. Sorry it's happening slower than some might<br>
>> expect, however we should be ready for that by January.<br>
>><br>
>> Regarding the RFU site, I did mention that WRFU needs a webmaster or two-<br>
>> to work on content. The old site is insecure and old and the content needs<br>
>> to be moved to a new site. That's not IMC-Tech's role. The working group<br>
>> needs to manage its own website. I've tried to engage with RFU folks for<br>
>> months to work on a new site- no one ever responds. So who's it going to be?<br>
>><br>
>> _______________________________________________<br>
>> RFU mailing list<br>
>> <a href="mailto:RFU@lists.chambana.net">RFU@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
>> <a href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/rfu" target="_blank">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/rfu</a><br>
><br>
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