[LGM] LGM2019 – Temporary Website

[Frank Trampe]

Ale, I think that Stefan and the rest of us were proposing exactly what you
proposed. Having a landing page for some period of time after a meeting
that lets people choose between past and future. I also favor having a more
substantial permanent site, but that might take a bit more work.


On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:40 AM, ale rimoldi <ale at graphicslab.org> wrote:

> hi stefan
>
> thanks for your proposal!
> and for the good and fast work!
>
> i also have good news:
>
> i had to leave sevilla very early but on sunday evening, i did already
> create the new repository for 2019 and i also did setup the tuxfamily
> server with a dummy site for 2019 (a really dummy one).
>
> - https://github.com/libregraphicsmeeting/htdocs-2019
> - https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019
>
> i've announced it in the irc channel but not yet in the mailing list.
>
> but the saarbrücke team can start right away creating their site!
>
> concerning the use of the signalwerk account on gitub, i'd prefer if
> you could put your work on our own libregraphicsmeeting account and get
> people to collaborate there.
> of course you would get full powers on that repository!
> we want to train the muscle memory and get people to know where our
> stuff is...
>
>
> i also had a discussion in sevilla about how to migrate from the one
> lgm site to the next one...
>
> one solution is to directly go from one lgm site to the next one about a
> month after the lgm is over.
> if i understand you correctly, this is what you're aiming to.
>
> on the other hand, the solution i would prefer, is to have a transition
> from /20xx to /lgm a few weeks after the lgm 20xx is over.
> and then, when things are ready for the next lgm to /20xx+1  (at
> sometimes in fall?).
> for this second solution we would need somebody who improves the look
> and feel of the /lgm site.
> i wonder if your proposal might be used for the lgm site instead of
> limiting it to a throwaway site.
> in that way the "in between" site would have some real content.
> (to be honest, this workflow has been proposed in the past by other
> people, it's not my idea...)
>
> currently the /lgm site is a wordpress instance, but i could image
> that it can become a static site with the content managed through git.
>
> concerning the ssh access to the server:
>
> - adding ssh accounts is an all or nothing thing that involves work on
>   the tuxfamily side (we are not admins of the server)
> - i prefer to keep the access inside of the infrastructure group *and*
>   do myself as little as possible through ssh (in this way we have
>   everything nicely versioned and backed up!)
> - for this year lgm we had the deployment to work the other way round:
>   it's the tuxfamily server that does a pull and not the repository /
>   continuous integration that is pushing to the server. (it was a
>   little shock for ale at first, but very fast, it worked out very
>   well!)
>
> so, if possible, i'd prefer a solution that avoids the need for
> creating new ssh accounts : - )
>
> have a wonderful 1st of may!
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
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