[Novalug] Novalug Website -- EVERYONE, please read this!!!

[John]

Clif Flynt wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:07:30PM -0500, gregory pryzby wrote:
>   
>> the person willing to design and help maitain has the say.
>>
>> in novalug the people who do the work decide. that is how i believe
>> the group has run and will continue.
>>     
>
> I concur heartily with Gregory that the choice goes to the person
> doing the work.
>
> As a maintainer of other mailing lists and observer on maintaining
> wikis, I'll note that hacking into these things is a prime activity
> for spammers and web-ranking poisoners.  The technologies for keeping
> spammers out of a mailling list fairly mature.  I'm not familiar with
> a wiki implementation that's good about keeping advertisements etc
> out of a wiki without a bunch of manual interraction.
>
> Clif
>   

Well, I'm in between major projects right now so I have the time to 
devote to something moderately ambitious, but my experience in setting 
up websites only covers trivial topics (nothing like setting up a LAMP 
based wiki).  I can set up a hermetically sealed server, but I've always 
left the web implementation to others.  At any rate I'm going to start 
researching, planning and setting up a skeleton site but I would 
probably need some help with the implementation along the way.

@Clif, I understand that any community forum and wiki site would require 
considerable automated and  human filtering of unwanted junk.  I can 
handle most of the automated side.  But I think the NOVALUG provides 
just the sort of verifiable admin resource pool to deal with the human 
side of such issues.  That is if there are enough people to help out in 
that basic sort of capacity.

I'll go ahead and start testing various wiki and related CW FOSS, if 
anyone has suggestions or recommendations I would appreciate the input.

-John W