Well, advice anyway.
During the weekly meeting while the usual suspects were discussing things that do not affect the site here, I was getting some information for a project and ran across an odd link that brought me to a page that had an interesting looking link on the sidebar. Clicking on it, I was looking at a personal observation page reflecting on the 5 things the author had gotten from his father:
Today did not start our so well, my client ran out of home directory space. Not that this was unexpected.
Yesterday I noticed we were down to 20GB of shared space. Sounds like a lot, given that there are less than 100 people and this is unix home directory stuff. I went out a warning that we were running out of space and it was time to do some clean up. I guess it fell on deaf ears. This morning, it was down to 781MB. Someone had chewed up 19+ GB overnight.
I may as well look at changing the whole colour scheme and logo. The current one was something I put together in a hurry one night and while servicable, it could use an improvement. If anyone wants to try their hand at a logo, feel free. We can even vote on it. I may even be able to provide an O’Reilly book as an incentive.
I’m partial to the soft Blue tones, but looking at some themes on other sites, there are many other things that can be done. I’ll have a number of alternative layouts for the site and we can pick from that and go logo mad after the colour scheme and layout are selected.
I’ve found enough information on converting from Drupal to Wordpress to make it worth the effort. Once done, the directory structure and the setup seem to be much more intuitive that the Drupal interface. Who knows? Maybe I’m just lazy.
Seriously though, the site has gone through 3 revisions over the years and a couple of mailing lists. Interestingly enough, I still have all of the data, even from the first days (written in MS Front Page) and a yahoo group for the mailing list. We then went to a package called Geeklog which sufficied for a while and no mailing list. Geeklog eventually got hacked and filled with more comment spam than I ever wanted to play with again. That inspired going to Drupal and after a comment by an unnamed person, adding mailman, which has done well, but as I commented in a prior post, failed utterly on the upgrade to the newer version. It may be incompatible plugins, who knows. The bottom line if the upgrade blew technicolour chunks. I backed out and continued on the old system.
As most of you know by now, we are pushing the July meeting out a week so it will not conflict with Blues Fest.
July’s Topics:
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