RM notes about topics that need coverage: single points of failure out-of-band contact methods Special continuity problems of college groups. Monitoring of key assets, e.g., domain registration. "Remind" scripts for domain expiration. Scripts to monitor for failures of backup nameservers and MXes. Paying domain registration for many years in advance. Problem of inward-looking information. Pervasive misconceptions about USA 501(c)(3) non-profit status, benefits of incorporation, and liability insurance. Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:28:01 +0200 From: "vincenzo.virgilio@poste.it" To: rick@linuxmafia.com Subject: Lug Guide Hi! i was updating the entry of my lug on lugww and i took a look at that page. First of all, i manage also www.linuxsicilia.it and it was strange to me to go to www.linuxmafia.com... So, your version of 2004 needs some updating, like some LUG directory listings are not still on place, like redhat and instead Ubuntu has a working one. Also, i was thinking about some suggestion. At last, if you agree, i'd like to put an italian translation of your page and could be that we could take and translate some argument of your linuxmafia to our linusicilia.it... Let me know. Vincenzo Virgilio P.S. Why you choose linuxmafia???? I'm still laughing [part of an e-mail to someone else:] To more directly answer your question: Someone who aspires to maintain a Linux Documentation Project HOWTO acquires the source form of the HOWTO, patches it, and sends a revision to LDP. The source for this particular HOWTO is in LinuxDoc SGML. You can fetch the head version either from my Web site (http://linuxmafia.com/lug/) or from LDP's revision control system. To generate HTML (or other) usable formatted versions from LinuxDoc SGML, install Matt Welsh's linuxdoc-tools package, then do: $ linuxdoc -B html --toc=1 User-Group-HOWTO.sgml By default, that generates the multi-section form of the output, This does the single-page variant: $ linuxdoc -B html --split=0 User-Group-HOWTO-singlepage.sgml (Using a copy of the sgml file; I use a symlink) The person revising the HOWTO then (after test-generating the output format or formats to make sure he/she didn't introduce a tagging error) sends the revised SGML source to LDP's submissions process as the new master copy. LDP encourages people to participate, and at the same time encourages newcomers to try to work with existing maintainers, e.g., for people to not step on each others' toes. In my case, the original author of the LUG HOWTO, Kendall Clark, asked me to take it over from him, and I agreed. I hope to keep maintaining it, and always appreciate help, suggestions, and participation. Natually, nobody's immortal, either, including yr. humble correspondent, so I'm delighted that other people want the LUG HOWTO to remain a living document. Kendall and I made sure the HOWTO is under free licensing (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0), so that it can be lawfully adopted even if we both are suddenly hit by a bus. ;->