Re: [Staffslug] website

Quoting Simon Faulkner <simon(a)titanic.co.uk&gt;: One of the main reasons for changing the website was to keep it simple, and hopefully use it as a conduit for populating the IRC channel/mailing list further, as opposed to including _absolutely eeeverything_ on the website. You may have noticed already that there just wasn't enough active members to satisfy the requirements of a forum, mailing list, regular meets, activity days, lively IRC channels etc. Building content into the website gets us hits, and hits on interesting content will hopefully lead to more mailing list members. A good mailing list is a good pre-requisite to any organisational group, and should hopefully result in more meets, more events and a more active LUG. Right now though, we need an attractive website, that isn't spoilt with 1001 cooks adding a tonne of static 'meta-content'. It's far more worthwhile to provide the list for up-to-date information regarding Linux and local information, with interesting articles the basis of content on the website. Including a lot of static 'information' just means that the majority of your website can easily go stale without constant updates. Though your other ideas are fantastic, and I'm not trying to be disheartening; you appear to be wishing this particular LUG to run before it's even walking competently. It's just sadly not as big as similar efforts around the country.. *yet*. It took us all long enough to organise the last meeting. Perhaps an article regarding the _current_ state of local companies would be a better idea, than providing static information? In this situation, comments upon the article could also be utilised for discussion/opinion. As you seem to be very interested in the proliferation of local companies (bias aside) would you be interested in penning an article? Tom