[chbot] Websites and stuff

[Mark Atherton]

Possibly stepping back a bit, what are we trying to achieve ?

Maybe:

Web page
- simple web page introduction to the group to non-members
- admin notices

Forum
- manage announcements (meetings, new relevant commercial products, 
new web pages)
- start a topic (CPU for an application, subaquatic high temp adhesive)
- respond to that topic
- topics may lead on to upload of files, images associated with projects
- personal management of subscribing and un-subscribing to the service

Email
- emails notifications (and content ?) of subscribed messages
- email summaries, once a day

Maybe existing web sites / forums could be used as examples - I 
subscribe to forums with Sparkfun, Altera/Quartus, Stack Exchange -- 
they all seem to do the job just fine for me.

Private voting on the required features is important - one member, one vote

Anyway, more to think about.

-mark







At 09:51 p.m. 20/10/2014, you wrote:
>For the benefit of members who couldn't get to tonights meeting, we talked
>about websites, forums, email reflectors and wikis.
>
>We decided that we didn't know what the membership wanted so I'll start
>the ball rolling with a few ideas which within a short while we can build
>into a list of what we *might* want.
>
>We then vote this list (awarding points from 0 to 10 for each item) and
>hence come up with what the membership *actually* wants. This means that
>the initial list may have some outliers - thats fine, they'll get weeded
>out in the voting :)
>
>Next step is to see what fits to implement these requirements followed by
>a search for where such things can be hosted (assuming hosting is
>required!!)
>
>So far the list we briefly discussed:
>1. email reflector - currently implemented.
>2. forum - love them or hate them they may have a place.
>3. static web site - who and where we are
>4. gallery - for pictures etc
>5. wiki - something all the members can edit
>
>
>My thoughts on some of these:
>1. a (better) search capability would be nice perhaps using a private
>google group or bridging emails into a forum
>2. something like SMF as used by http://www.fieldlines.com/index.php which
>allows a gallery, polls, rss feed, new posts since last visited (I use
>that a lot!!)
>3. suffers bit rot
>4. best integrated with the forum
>5. likely best integrated with the forum by using an FAQ or Intro sections
>and sticky topics
>
>Let ideas roll...
>
>
>--
>Robin Gilks
>Internet: robin at gilks.org    http://www.gilks.org
>Tel:      (+64) (3) 347 4370
>
>
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