[sf-lug] SF-LUG website (& editing thereof) [was: Re: Noisebridge SF-LUG (Noisebridge Linux discussion supported by SF-LUG, ...)]

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sat Jul 16 02:35:42 PDT 2016


Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):

> Fixing some (mis-)quoting and rearranging a bit:
> 
> Uhm, well, no shortage of rather to quite out-of-date information on
> https://www.sf-lug.org/
> 
> Let's see ...
> at least it shows correct date for meeting ... but I think also that's
> still PHP, and I believe Jim quite expressed a preference to get away
> from using PHP - certainly at least for publicly accessible web pages
> ... and instead have a "static" web page ... that would be suitably
> updated via a cron(8) driven crontab(1) job.

This is my strong preference, as you know.

PHP is a large security hole that happens to have a small interpreted
language interpreter attached to it.

> What else have we ...
> "meetings are the" ... hmmm, always?, no mention of exceptions, or
> qualifying it with "generally"?
> "Meetings are usually in San Francisco at" ...
> Uhm, has SF-LUG *ever* met outside of San Francisco?
> If SF-LUG has *never* met outside of San Francisco, then perhaps rather
> use:
> "Meetings are in San Francisco usually at" ...
> "gnu" - shouldn't it be uppercase in that context?
> ... "Solaris"?  Uhm, really?  How often/frequently/recently has Solaris
> been discussed at an SF-LUG meeting? ... and like in a serious, rather
> than mocking or mostly/entirely historical context?
> "Policies: Anything goes" ...
> "Job Postings: current policy is"
> Uhm, ... shouldn't the Policies bit end with "Except:", just before the
> "Job Postings:" portion?  Otherwise they logically conflict, ... and
> less polite folk may go with the first, in violation of the
> second/subsequent and conflicting.
> "Projects include:" Uhm, yeah, I'm guestimating that listing needs a
> fair bit of updating.
[...]

You know, if you were just to copyedit the public text to polish it up
and fix various infelicities of wording, I doubt anyone would mind.





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