[CLUE-Adm] Website -> PHP

[Kevin Cullis]

"Jeffery C. Cann" wrote:
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> On Sunday 18 February 2001 15:37, Kevin wrote:
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> > While I agree that the above is dynamic pages, if we were to create a
> > more interactive web site maybe that would attract more people to get
> > involved.  Just a thought.
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> My thought is that the mail lists are interactive.  If we were to add a forum
> / discussion area to the CLUE site, I think we would fight the involvement on
> the email list.  In addition, with sites like Slashdot (and the hundreds of
> /. clones) wouldn't CLUE just become a copycat?  Maybe we should check other
> prominent LUG web sites in the country.  The last time I did this, there were
> few interactive ones.
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> IMHO - The primary purpose of the CLUE home page is to disseminate info to
> the members.
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> One interactive idea that I support is a user-contribution section.  This is
> where folks can upload scripts, programs, documentation that we can easily
> publish and share in the web site.  I have proposed this before and there was
> good support amoung the CLUE membership.  What do you think about this idea?

Exactly what I was thinking, i.e. more interactiveness on the site.

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> > Also, I see by Mailman on our various email
> > list that traffic is WAY down over last summer and I was trying to come
> > up with ways to increase that.
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> It does not appear that they are WAY down:
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> Clue Talk
> Aug 00  116 messages
> July 00  172 messages
> Jun 00  102 messages
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> Jan 01  164 messages
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> I would be worried if our meeting attendance tapered off, but we always have
> a full house (~60-70 folks each meeting).  I am sure we could attract more if
> we were to market the group more aggressively.  OTH- we would need (again) a
> bigger meeting room!

True.  But that's what we could be working toward. ;-)

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> > Will this be available for ALL CLUE members or just the admin people?
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> We will set up anonymous public access via CVS.  This means that the code is
> public-read only.  If you want to contribute to the code, make changes, add
> new features, then you (as an individual) would get a CVS login that would
> allow check-in of code.  For more info on CVS, checkout
> http://www.cvshome.org.
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> > I'm interested to learn since I'm not at you guy's level of
> > sophistication ;-)  When would we get together (I'm assuming)?
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> We probably will not get together immediately.  I need to build the
> infrastructure that will allow multi-user development in a simple and easy
> manner.  The first step is CVS.  Then the database and some example PHP
> scripts.  I will provide some documentation on setting up your own
> development environment.  Then at this point, we could get together...

Don't expect me to launch right into things, I'm a beginner this stuff,
but I'm willing to learn.

Later,

Kevin