[Imc-cymru] steps to set up page

[ana]

> Some of us have Linux boxes and have even connected them to  broadband.

Is this an offer to start working on it? Please tell us about your
progress :-) and don't forget to ask us about design etc! thanks Ilyan.

> Could even have interactive Unix if the Floppies still work.

Sorry i don't understand what this sentence means, I'm not that techie yet...

> Anyone can switch to Linux. It is easy,

I have to say, I strongly disagree on this, specially after having
migrating myself. But, if you did find it easy, good on you - it would be
great to hear about training sessions in Wales!

>   one particularly thick idiot
> got flying with a CD for Kubuntu at no cost.

It would be better, however, to avoid insults...

Well I suppose the next step is to prepare some templates, upload them to
some server (read pages for that) and let the group choose one and then
make improvements in the design etc?

see you on irc :-)

ana


> PS  There is a meeting somewhere.  Is there kip space arranged,  Is
> there somewhere reasonable to park a car,  National express travel on
> friday is expensive,  And the idea of burning fuel does not appeal
> unless the car is full.
>
>
> ana wrote:
>> Again...
>>
>> I have just been told that ... the pages I referred to here might as
>> well have been written in another language! :o(
>>
>> Which is indeed true. I read them after I sent them here and realised
>> how scary they must be.
>>
>> As to what to do next, I must admit that you really are a lot better off
>> if you have a computer with a GNU/linux operating system running on it;
>> you just fire the shell and start making the orders explained there.
>> MacOS also has a shell so it might be easy too.
>>
>> So if anyone on this list has a techie mind and wants to start
>> preparing, please shout. Otherwise you will need to depend on some body
>> else to do it for you, which is not common practice ...
>>
>> It needn't be as bad as it looks like, however. I remember when we did
>> the templates for London, we just copy/pasted the whole structure from
>> the Oxford pages, and I think I remember almost every one did that.
>>
>> Is there any progress being made 'recruiting' more people? It would be
>> great. It might be a possibility to explore LUGs (Linux User Groups) ...
>>
>> ana
>>
>> ana
>>
>> ana wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the responses to the roll call and any new subscriptions to
>>> this list. For your information, this list's purpose is to create an
>>> indymedia website for wales. I am helping from London trying to be a
>>> liaison with imc uk or imc global, whichever you prefer to deal with.
>>>
>>> I have sent the documentation necessary to start the process with imc
>>> global. Not much enthusiasm there, so here is the documentation to join
>>> IMC UK. The documentation process of the political stuff gets mainly
>>> scrapped because it is taken for granted that we will meet during the
>>> process and talk face to face. The network meeting would be a good
>>> occasion for this - there is already one person at least on the process
>>> list, where the preparation for the meeting including dates and
>>> location
>>> are discussed, and you can subscribe to that list yourselves if you
>>> want.
>>>
>>> So the political process is not so much developed so you roughly pass
>>> directly to the technical development. The techie person does not need
>>> to be very techie, is more just a liaison between the tech team of indy
>>> uk and this group. Main communication channel is irc and/or the
>>> imc-uk-tech list.
>>>
>>> Now, the documentation that has been prepared for groups like yours to
>>> get involved in the indymedia uk website with a sub site, is here ... i
>>> am told that some pages may be more up-to-date than others. It would be
>>> superb if you could amend errors as you go alone - but always ask,
>>> either on lists or irc.
>>>
>>> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUkTech#New_regional_site_IMC_UK_set_up
>>>
>>> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkDevMirSites
>>>
>>> Please read those pages. Thanks ...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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