[LRUG] All New! All Singing! All Dancing! LRUG.ORG

[Tom Cartwright]

Great work - thanks all!

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Murray Steele <murray.steele at lrug.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully you won’t notice any difference but we’ve just shipped a new
> version of http://lrug.org/.  The old site was a radiant[1] install and
> over the past few months we’ve been extracting the content and turning it
> into a static site using middleman[2].
>
> The main benefit of this is that the entire site is now text in a git
> repo[3] rather than strings hidden in a db on the host.  This should open
> up the possibility of more people working on the site and if nothing else I
> expect you all to submit pull-requests to fix all the typos I inadvertently
> ad when writig up the mettingz.
>
> If you’re super-keen to help out there are a bunch of issues[4] that could
> do with your attention.  If you have any other ideas for the site then open
> a PR or issue and we can start to talk about it.
>
> We’ve made some effort to make sure that we have redirects in place for
> old urls.  If you have any bookmarks, rss subscriptions, or other links
> that point to something on http://lrug.org/ please check them out and let
> us know if anything is broken (bonus points if you do so as a PR with a
> change to our redirects.json[5] file).
>
> Thanks to Tom Stuart, David Burrows, Greg Molnar, and Andrew McDonough for
> getting involved and helping push this out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Murray
>
> [1]: http://radiantcms.org/
> [2]: https://middlemanapp.com/
> [3]: https://github.com/lrug/lrug.org
> [4]: https://github.com/lrug/lrug.org/issues
> [5]: https://github.com/lrug/lrug.org/blob/master/data/redirects.json
>
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