Yeah but it seems like it's better to actually have something at all? I understand that wordpress is nice for certain folks to edit, but it requires a *lot* more overhead, and version controlling/backups are a nightmare (as I presume you know). It's a do-ocracy right? Feel free to bring back the wordpress site, but it's an absolute MUST to have the template version controlled and ideally backups accessible to more than just your laptop hard drive... On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:

Ok peopleopen.net is now more or less the front page that we all knew and loved (and can continue to know and love). I just used github's static pages feature because it's a hell of a lot less overhead than setting up a full wordpress site. We have a few options moving forwards: - We leave as is. Considering that we haven't had *any* front page for the past several months, I think it's a fine solution. - We add content to the github pages repo. This would require that contributors be able to use git. I'm happy to walk people through the basics, especially if all we want to do is add a bit of text here or there. I'm also happy to make larger changes and/or put in text if people want specific parts in there. This could include things like menus, extra pages, etc. - We setup another wordpress site. Wordpress is obviously a nice platform for allowing folks to contribute without having to know the technical details of using git and/or editing html. It has a lot of downsides, though, chief among them that version control and database backups are complicated. It's the primary reason we've been without a front page for this long. I'm happy to see the wordpress site restored and I'd even participate in restoring it, but it seems like wasted efforts unless we version control the template (ideally as a child-theme unless we're hand-writing one entirely from scratch) and implement a reasonable database backup scheme. I'd even prefer doing something fancy like using Docker (and I got most of the way through this approach), but I don't really want to re-write the php/html/css theme and without the old template files we're stuck re-doing a fair amount of work. If someone has those lying around and/or wants to put their front-end dev skills to use, lemme know and we can figure it out. Similarly, this could be a great opportunity to plug in someone who wants to help, but doesn't have the deeper computer networking skills that firmware, etc require. I don't know who that would be off the top of my head, but it seems as though there are always people asking. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:35 PM, max b <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com> wrote: