[hackerspaces] Fwd: webpage infra

[ITechGeek]

Richard,

Is the Hackerspace in question tokyohackerspace.org?

If so, I think the site is good.  I would definitely move away from
Drupal **personal opinion only** (And I could check w/ someone from
HacDC to see if he still has the script for importing posts & users
from Drupal to WordPress that he used if you're interested).

I do definitely like the English translation ability on the site,
prior to seeing that I could only understand the menubar and the
techie stuff (=

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Yvan Janssens <ik at yvanj.me> wrote:
> 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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