[hackerspaces] Fwd: webpage infra

[Yvan Janssens]

Hello,

Over here, at VoidWarranties in Belgium, we use a wiki primarily - we tend
to use the Sematic MediaWiki extensions for our calendar, and we don't
really need the "news" feature. We also use the wiki to organise our
thoughts, and create an archive for the people behind us.

We also use a local piratepad-like installation to do notetaking during
meetings, but that one is not served in public.

Yvan

2012/10/16 ITechGeek <itg at itechgeek.com>

> HacDC uses both, WordPress for our main site (Formerly a Drupal site)
> and also have a wiki site as a sub-domain.
>
> WordPress has events systems of it's own (so far I haven't worked w/
> one I like), or if you currently use a Google Calendar you can embed
> one of those into WordPress & Google provides code for embedding into
> a website (I think it provides code that if you set-up your site
> properly, fits in quite nicely).  And you can share out the Google
> Calendar and it's easy to manage.
>
> Since HacDC uses meet-up to coordinate events, we have a plugin that
> integrates meet-up events into our site.
>
> WordPress also has modules for posting directly to a number of social
> networks (although for my personal blog I use a Facebook app to pull
> the RSS feed for my blog and post them to Facebook).  A service like
> Twitterfeed can pull the RSS feed and post to both Twitter & Facebook
> (I use that to post things I like from Google Reader via RSS to
> Twitter & Facebook).
>
> Frantisek is right about sometimes a WordPress site can be a pain to
> keep up to date (although I know a few people who set the main page of
> their site as a "static" page and maintain WordPress mostly for the
> ease of updating that page which having a somewhat static page can
> also be done nicely in a Wiki).
>
> I think most Hackerspaces tend to prefer having a wiki above all else,
> so if you don't have the option for sub-domains (or don't want to
> maintain two websites), I would say go w/ the wiki as your main site.
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> > Just a quick one. Are you really sure that the WordPress will suit you
> best?
> > I'm no expert on the topic at all but I have seen two of the hackerspaces
> > which I was involved with lately getting rid off their WordPress format,
> > mostly because of the amount of time which had to be dedicated to the
> upkeep
> > so things looked kind of up to date + the length of the posts. So I was
> just
> > wondering because generally the wiki pages are quite favoured by
> > hackerspaces ...
> >
> > Best of luck, I have copied friend who is very good in WordPress as BCC
> so I
> > hope he may give you some tips ...
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
> >
> > PS For me both WordPress and Wiki works good I think it is great to have
> a
> > combination - if you want to report on some cool event for example,
> > WordPress seems great, for day to day activities, continuous evolving
> > project Wiki seems like the way ...
> >
> > biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
> >
> >
> > http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org
> >
> >
> > "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Richard Frankum <richard.frankum+ths at gmail.com>
> > To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
> >
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:29 PM
> > Subject: [hackerspaces] Fwd: webpage infra
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here at Tokyo Hackerspace, we're trying to improve our out-of-date
> > website. We're going to migrate to a WordPress installation.
> > Thing is, I'm not a site manager, so even though I'd like to help,
> > it's relegated to the day-to-day work.
> > Can anyone recommend a couple good plugins for a default WP install
> > that would help the business of a hackerspace?
> > Particularly useful would be an easily-integratable calendar (our
> > current one only provides one month of data in its RSS) and perhaps
> > something that makes account management easier.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > --Richard Frankum
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