[Brisbane-pm] Brisbane.PM and Perl.net.au

Paul Fenwick pjf at perltraining.com.au
Wed Apr 6 17:33:43 PDT 2005


G'day Everyone,

There's been a few changes to the Brisbane.pm website recently, and these
discussions (most of which unfortunately happened off-list) hilighted the fact
that there's no simple way for local Brisbane.pm members to easily update or
expand the website.  Our current website maintainer is overseas, and while it's
possible to gain access to edit the website using WebDAV and a discussion with
the pm.org maintainers, doing so is far from trivial.

One of my personal goals is to try and increase the activity of Perl user groups
in Australia, and also to increase the interaction between groups, which have
traditionally remained in their local geographic areas.  With this in mind, I'd
like to put forward a proposal to the group and see what people think.

I've recently established http://perl.net.au/ with the intent of this acting as
a portal for all things Perl in Australia and New Zealand.  The site is running
MediaWiki, the same software that powers the extremely successful Wikipedia.
Anyone can edit pages on perl.net.au, and are encouraged to do so.

I'd be very happy for perl.net.au to host the Brisbane.PM webpage, and would
encourage Brisbane.PM members to edit and expand the page (and the rest of the
site) as they see fit.  Perl.net.au is intended to be a resource for the
community, and I feel that it's important that user groups are able to grow and
communicate without excessive administrative overheads.

I've put a page up at http://perl.net.au/wiki/Brisbane_Perl_Mongers based upon
the content of the current website.  I've also made a few updates and
corrections to the information.  I'd now like to encourage *you* to update the
website with anything you feel is important -- be it local projects, ideas and
times for get-togethers, local members, discussions about how cool it was to
meet up in September last year, or anything else that you think is relevant.
You don't even need to create an account to make changes (although you're
encouraged to do so), just hit the 'edit' button and go.

I'd also love to gain feedback on whether anyone would think it's a particularly
good or bad idea to redirect the current brisbane.pm.org to the perl.net.au
page.  This would make it much easier to keep the information on the page
current and easy-to-maintain.  Of course, if it's decided this is a bad idea I'm
happy for any work I've done on the perl.net.au page to be incorporated back
into the original site.

All the very best,

	Paul

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