[Brug-talk] Setup BRUG website

[Bernard Grymonpon]

Hi all,

As a Belgian hosting company, specializing in Rails hosting, we would  
be ashamed if the BRUG would be hosted elsewere; we will provide the  
hosting for the BRUG-website (unless someone objects to this). This  
will be in the form of our Pro-hosting package, providing Ruby and  
Rails support, a free domain name (suggestions anyone?) and mail  
hosting for this domain, along with other goodies.

Can someone make a quick one-page template/holding page (simple html)  
with a short introduction text (maybe in Dutch and in French (we have  
people in the BRUG who can do some translation I guess)), and some  
links to the mailing list and rubyforge pages... so we can get the  
show online.

Btw: The logo is really great.

Rgds,
Bernard Grymonpon
Openminds

On 04 Oct 2007, at 17:30, Peter Vanbroekhoven wrote:

> 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
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