[chiglug] LUG infra hacking

[Jim Campbell]

Sounds good, Lincoln! Thank you. We're all in the early stages of figuring out what exactly we want to do, but we'll try to plan it out well so that people can be productive and contribute in ways that are good for them (biting off enough for people to chew on, but not too much, etc.). As you're more experienced, we could probably stand to lean on you for your advice and input on some things, too.

- Jim

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, at 2:13 PM, Lincoln Bryant wrote:
> 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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