Re: [tlug] TLUG Site with Hakyll Update

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 3/14/19 1:00 AM, Curt Sampson wrote:
> So, here's where we are with the current proof-of-concept (PoC) of a
> new site:
>
> 1. Jim was going to contact Henri and whatever other folks are more
>     intimately involved with the current site and get their thoughts on
>     the general idea of "convert to static site builder +
>     Netlify/GitHub Pages-style hosting." I don't know where we're at
>     with that. Jim?
>
> 2. The PoC in terms of rendering the content is still sitting where it
>     was last weekend: we have the top HTML pages and some associated
>     images and CSS up (see <https://tlug.github.io/tlug.jp/>), and
>     we've extracted the content from the original site, but we don't
>     have, e.g., any Markdown files getting rendered to HTML. I intend
>     to step up on this once I deal with some other issues below, but
>     having someone else also interested in putting some effort into
>     this would of course be good. (I've also gotten in touch with an
>     outside guy who does some web stuff and has a very strong interest
>     in Haskell who might be interested in helping out.)

Looks pretty good.  I will try geting Hakyll setup over the weekend and  
take a look.  The big one for me will be dumping and copying over whats  
 worth keeping in the wiki.  That would allow us to remove the RDB from  
our stack.  I think we might also make different choices about the  
structure if we wern't using mediawiki.  I really like what was done on

https://scrapbox.io/HNKansai/

It would be good if we could embed videos and photos from the meetings.

> 3. I've heard no real comments on the "must build locally and push"
>     vs. "click GitHub 'Edit' button and someone else builds and pushes"
>     thing, beyond "both Jim and I can see how some people might not
>     update the site without the latter." I'm guessing that the
>     "requires you run Linux" part of this is not a big issue :-)
>     (though even that is fixable), but is there anybody around here who
>     would be seriously (or even moderately) committed to doing web site
>     updates for whom needing to use a Linux command line for this would
>     be a deal-breaker? (Keep in mind that we'd have several people
>     offering full tech. support on this.)

We have had the wiki for some time and for a long time that was pertty  
open access but I think I was the only person who really ever used it.

Edward