One of the things Ryan and talked about yesterday at lunch was RSS/Atom feeds. Some have requested a feed of, for example news items (meeting notices, external events like OK Code Camp, etc). Also mentioned was a jobs posting feed. We talked about Wordpress (which powers my blog) as you can subscribe to feeds for certain categories. Just post a blog entry under the "jobs" category, and anyone subscribed to (for example)
<a href="http://blog.okcjug.org/jobs/feed">http://blog.okcjug.org/jobs/feed</a> sees the posting when he refreshes his feed reader. I can easily setup a Wordpress blog under the subdomain of our choice and get rolling with that.
<br><br>I got to thinking though, as dangerous as that may be, about the site in general. That would leave us with basically two sites: the feed site and the wiki. The idea behind the wiki is that anyone can edit it, but, beyond the occasional job posting, there are very few who actually do so. What if, then, we re-implemented our site in something like
<a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla</a>? I know it's PHP-based and Ryan would rather gnaw off his arm than write PHP, but it's a pretty nice CMS system and has a SLEW of plugins, including polls, Google Maps, etc. I'm pretty sure I can create a user on my site hosting account that would give $USER access to all things JUG (including shell, i think), and it wouldn't cost me (or any of our sponsors) anything extra.
<br><br>What's the general feeling on that? Does anyone have one?<br><br>feedback++ :)<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jason Lee, SCJP<br>Software Architect -- Objectstream, Inc.<br>JSF RI Dev Team<br><a href="http://blogs.steeplesoft.com">
http://blogs.steeplesoft.com</a>