[kwlug-disc] KWLUG Planet

[B.S.]

On the one hand ...

I am minded of the ~"do one thing, only, and do it very, very, well" axiom.

www.kwlug.org has demonstrated that it is not going to be the blogging 
site. Never mind that things like twitter(1,2) have come along over the 
years, and the community isn't going to keep www.kwlug.org 'up with the 
times'. (Which is not to say that, e.g., Bob hasn't tried / hasn't been 
successful in the idea, merely that in the end the real point of 
presence of those efforts is not www.kwlug.org itself.)

(1) twitter, identi.ca, federation, and all 'such'.
(2) 'twitter' here representing social networking, mobile, and any and 
all niftiness that now make sites popular and 'trend'y. That 'target' is 
a constantly moving beastie, and www.kwlug.org isn't.

So, it is arguable that www.kwlug.org should ONLY be about kwlug (and 
-its- meetings.)

[Understandably, Paul is also vested in not losing or hiding historical 
'non-core' content.]


On the other hand ...

The idea of a KWLUG Planet seems juicy.

But perhaps instead of thinking of it as part of www.kwlug.org, it 
should be thought of as -hosted- at www.kwlug.org. And perhaps instead 
of being a KWLUG Planet, it should be a KW[F][U|UG] Planet. (F = Floss.)

Treating core as core may simplify the site, drupal wise, perhaps 
simplifying the taxonomy, the complexity of which I suspect complicates 
Paul's and Andrew's lives, and hampers migration.

KWLUG Planet, and other non-core (e.g. old Blogs?), could be themed 
differently or otherwise separated out. Arguably it could or should 
reside elsewhere, and be linked to.


Andrew's link of 
http://andrewsullivancant.ca/wiki/waterloo_free_software_portal/ was 
cool to wander around in. Feels like above or below any 'KWLUG Planet' 
content should be a 'Other area Asteroids we're aware of', and links 
like Andrew's, and Marius' below, included there.


CDN$0.02


On 01/31/2017 05:48 PM, Marius Kintel wrote:
> Feel free to keep me on the list. My LinkedIn account is a better
> public URL than the (mostly defunct soup.io link):
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariuskintel/ ..or you can simply link
> directly to OpenSCAD to highlight that it’s the primary Open Source
> software I currently contribute to.
>
> -Marius
>
>> On Jan 31, 2017, at 15:23, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
>> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It is important that everybody who participates opt in explicitly.
>> So we should reach out to these people (or better yet, they should
>> be members of KWLUG already, whatever "membership" means).
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 01:44:55AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan Cant
>> wrote:
>>> The collection of KW FLOSS links that I started that might be
>>> useful:
>>> http://andrewsullivancant.ca/wiki/waterloo_free_software_portal/
>>>
>>> And I think I have more in my notes, that I'll try to add when I
>>> can.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>
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