[Brug-talk] Setup BRUG website

[Peter Vanbroekhoven]

Hi all,

One of the things I wanted to discuss yesterday, but which we didn't get
to anymore in the end, is how we are going to set up a website for our
user group. I think we need the following:

* hosting
* one or a few people to create the site (Rails programmers, website
designers)
* a few people to create and manage the content

These three groups needn't be disjunct, but they can be.

We need volunteers for each of these jobs.

Components for the website that I believe we certainly need are:

* a wiki for putting together information (specific to BRUG and BRUG
events, but also about Rails and Ruby in general)
* news + feed (announcing events, project/library releases, ...)

I propose using the brug project at Rubyforge for development
(libraries, Rails plugins, ...). We can set our own website as the home
page at Rubyforge. This way, Rubyforge ties us to the rest of the Ruby
community and allows Rubyists all over the world to find us and our
projects in the obvious place. This is independent from advertising our
Ruby user group via other channels.

Another nice thing to have would be a logo for BRUG. If someone feels up
to the task of designing one or more candidates, you can find the Ruby
logo here: http://rubyidentity.org/ruby-logo-kit.zip . The Rails logo is
trademarked, so using that requires more care.

Finally, I'm in the process of setting up a mailing list + Google group
mirror for the BRUG admins. There are several reasons why it's nice to
have this:

* As pointed out by Peter, not everyone is interested in the
administrative part, so it doesn't belong on the general list
* A mailing list allows everyone who *is* interested to enter the
discussions if so desired
* A mailing list provides an archive of these discussions
* Changes in the core admin group are easy to effectuate, just
add/remove users to/from the list.

I'll let you know when I receive notification that the list is created
and then anyone interested can subscribe.

Kind regards,
Peter Vanbroekhoven