[chiglug] LUG infra hacking

Lincoln Bryant lincolnb at uchicago.edu
Tue Mar 6 20:13:44 UTC 2018


Hi Jim,

I'm happy to help out with anything folks are interested in.

--Lincoln

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 13:33 -0600, Jim Campbell wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> For our next meeting, Meg and I discussed doing some LUG-infra
> hacking. There are a few areas where people could contribute:
> 
> 1) Contributing to the website. This would involve understanding how
> the website is put together, adding meetings, adding meeting
> presentation files, and making other website improvements.  This
> would be good for people who are okay with web stuff.  Our site is
> built with Hugo (no fancy NPM build pipelines . . . you only need the
> single Hugo binary) and the git repo.
> 
> 2) Making our infra build-able via Ansible.  Some of our earlier work
> focused on integrating with Rackspace API keys and such, but I'd be
> okay with more basic playbooks for starters.  This would be good for
> people who want experience with Ansible, Nginx, SSH keys, and
> deploying our website (however people want to do that).
> 
> 3) Migrating our mailing list. Right now our list is on GNU Mailman
> v2, and I'm most interested in moving it to Discourse (note: not
> Discord), but we could also consider Mailman v3 (hyperkitty).
> 
> 4) Making other LUG infra improvements - other ideas. What I've
> discussed above is a starting point (and I think stuff that we need
> to do / people need to know about), but I'm open to other ideas, too.
> 
> We don't have a date set yet because we wanted to get ideas from
> people. We're looking in the next 3-5 weeks, though.
> 
> Does this sound good to folks?  If so, let us know what types of
> areas interest  you.  In terms of involvement, the website stuff
> (under point 1) is probably simplest, and would require the least
> involvement.  Item 2 (Ansible) has more involvement, but is
> "chunkable" - you could only take a small chunk.  Item 3 (the mailing
> list stuff) is a bit more of a larger project.
> 
> Thanks, all.  Let us know your thoughts.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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