[chiglug] LUG infra hacking

[Jim Campbell]

Thanks, Rob! I think that would be great.

Would you mind letting us know a range of dates that you think might
work well for you? Maybe in the next 3-5 weeks (or thereabouts)? We've
typically met on a Saturday, so I think that would be best for people,
if that works for you.
Getting some help from some front-end people would be great, too, if
that can work-out.
- Jim


On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, at 8:35 PM, Rob Dux wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'd like to suggest hosting this event at my employer's office in
> River North right off the Brown Line @ Superior (Chicago stop).> 
> I'm flexible, open to a weeknight or Saturday afternoon.
> 
> We might have some additional engineers available to contribute to
> frontend / website work and along with the systems and infrastructure
> automation work.> 
> Rob
> 
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 1:34 PM Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> 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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