linux.ie gone?

[John Allen]

I see linux.ie website is gone, what happened

[Michele Neylon - Blacknight]

John

 

I think the site has been gone for a couple of years.

 

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Michele

 

 

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[Ken Guest]

archive.org could probably tell you when. it's been a while.

[Richard Rowe]

That's a shame.

Is there any interest in doing a reboot?

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[Richard Rowe]

I had a wee look, and the last message on the site was 'being transferred to another server' in 1st QTR of 2017.

So, I suppose there are three questions: 1. who holds the registration for the domain name (I've forgotten with time I'm afraid)?.

2. is the original site now long gone. 3. if we can get access to the domain name would there be an appetite to set it up again? - if only so we could host teh mailing list organically....

[Michele Neylon - Blacknight]

The domain has always been registered to Colm as far as I know.

 

The mailing list is working fine so I can’t see why anyone would want to change it – it ain’t broke

 

 

 

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From: Richard Rowe <irish...@gmail.com>
Date: Friday 21 May 2021 at 12:49
To: Ken Guest <ken....@gmail.com>
Cc: ILUG <il...@linux.ie>, Michele Neylon <mic...@blacknight.com>, "john.jo...@gmail.com" <john.jo...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] linux.ie gone?

 

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[Richard Rowe]

Thanks Michelle,

 

Like I say – I’d forgotten. I wasn’t having a ‘go’ at the mailing list, just thinking outloud – I agree ‘it ain’t broke.’

The remaining question: is there an appetite for regenerating a website for Linux.ie?

 

R

 

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[Donal Hunt]

As long as Colm doesn't turn to the darkside and sell the domain to a crypto prince[1] we should be fine... Pretty sure we're safe on that front. =)

It would be nice to have a static file saying "mailing list this way ---->"

Donal

[1] reference to recent freenode events.

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[Colm Buckley]

The domain remains mine; I am not sure whether ILUG as an organisation really exists any more. Things are very different now to how they were in 1998 - we're no longer a collection of scrappy underlings fighting to help a toy OS grow up and become usable.

I'm not 100% sure what purpose a linux.ie website would now serve, but if people want to put in the effort to set something up, I could certainly throw an A or CNAME your way, although I advise thinking hard about what sort of long-term effort you're prepared for.

Colm

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[Damien Hunter]

I'm sure we could think of something to do with the domain. I know ILUG may have served its purpose, but something could be down.

[Colm Buckley]

(1) Me.

(2) Yes, unfortunately.

(3) (a) Sure, but *what* would you have up on it. The effort involved is nontrivial.

(3) (b) No. Hosting your own mailing list is a recipe for endless toil and frustration, and minimal gain.

Colm

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[Richard Rowe]

Colm,

many thanks for all the input into the thread.  I absolutely agree with your assessment of 3a&b :-)

I suppose my concern is that for folk who are new to the Linux ecosystem, particularly in Ireland, the Linux.ie allowed a 'here we are' type of presence, and when Meetings were a 'thing' it was useful to publicise those. The soocial envionent is  different now.... meeting up to have 'Install Fests' may no longer be relevant, in the same way having a meeting to exchange distributions on CD (yes CD not DVD..) is a nonsense. Those of us who were involved at the start are all in a different place in life - but there may be a value in having a landing point for those following on so that they can find this mailing list, for example.

Just a thought for what its worth.

R

[Vladimir Rusinov]

Yeah, I think it could be one page on google sites / wix / whatever, linking to this mailing list and the likes of http://www.dublinlinux.org.

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[Colm Buckley]

I have no objections to that; of course, provided someone's willing to keep it up to date, etc.

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[Richard Rowe]

I'd be content to look after it - until a more competent person volunteers! As Vladimir suggests a one or two page instance on either Blogger or Wordpress, then we could point Linux.ie to it. I'd put together a 'starter for 10' , share the link, and then anyone who wants can have input. If anyone has stuff they want to see e.g ww.dublinlinux.org - they let me know. What do you think?

 

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[Donal Hunt]

I would suggest something super simple (with minimal scaffolding) would likely be more resilient.

I've personally had great success with GitHub organisations and GitHub pages generated from a repository. You get issue tracking, user management, etc for free and I'm going to presume many are familiar with git / GitHub. Easy to point a cname at it too.

Happy to collaborate if there is consensus to do something.

Donal

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[Damien Hunter]

Simple HTML5/CSS/JS boilerplate could be easily modified.

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