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On 18/06/2021 20:25, Paul Sutton via list wrote: > >> >> I've found the content helpful, and the contact entries are needed for a LUG to >> exist these days - those buttons to all those social media locations are essential >> once the choice has been made to have a presence on each platform. Perhaps the >> group should shun social media but I can't for the life of me see why. They're >> ideal places for first contact. >> >> I'm pleased there's a visible and accessible local LUG where people within meeting >> distance and a mutual interest can make arrangements. I doubt it could be done on >> Tindr though trying might be a novel experience for Linux users. > > We do have twitter, there is a LinkedIn group and also an account on Mastodon. > Ideally any blog posts would also be sent out on social media or at least Twitter > and Mastodon. > > Copyright notice issue also noted. Again something that needs to be addressed. > > With regard to people contributing articles should we come up with a simple > template that can be used by anyone on the list, then sent to a web team for the > article to be added to the schedule. Could be a set of html tags e.g > > <b>TITLE HERE IN BOLD</b> > <p> content 1</p> > <p> content 2</p> > > etc. <snip> Markdown or possibly ReStructedText probably should be preferred forms if plain text isn't desired. Just because these are broadly standardised now. I believe at one stage Grant may have offered to post to the Facebook page; I'm not sure who else has admin/etc. access .. but its a platform I use regularly for keeping in contact with more distant friends. It would of course, boost our rankings on Google/etc search engines if we did this (because $google). </my 2cents>
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