[wplug-web]new website initiative

[Mark Dalrymple]

> I'd like anyone who is interested in brainstorming to join the
> wplug-web mailing list.

Some stuff off the top of my head.


Stuff we'd prettty much have to have:
  * time, date, location of current and upcoming GUMs, along with program (if any)
  * minutes from previous GUMs
  * whatever board-of-directors tools exist
  * email archives
  * random static content
    = mailing list info
    = IRC info and etiquette guide
    = maps to GUMs
    = James O'Kane fund information
    = bios and pictures of our board
    = pointer to MarkDude's LDP archives
  * breaking news
  
Stuff that'd be cool:
  * instructional materials from past GUMs that folks are willing to let us put online
  * polls and surveys
  * personal home pages / blogs (with an appropriate terms of service policy)
  * a place for book reviews
  * a place for folks to publish random technical documents
  * screenshot of the moment
  * monkeybot's words of wisdom (random factoid)
  * everything searchable
  * a mentor/mentee dating service
    = person1: registers "i'm an oracle expert" on the site
      person2: queries "I'm having trouble installing Oracle" and emails person1
      person1: emails "bring your machine to the next installpest and I'll work with you"
  * GUM member brag page
    = "mpop just got a job supervising the IT department of a major accounting firm"
    = "Billings teaches perl at LISA"
    = "markd2 hit by a bus"
    = "jo2y's kitchen sponsored"
  * monkeybot gateway ("monkeybot, when's the next gum?"  "for the last time, i am not talking to you anymore!")
  * ecommerce, selling t-shirts, books, bumper stickers
  * local resources
    = like "what's a good local linux friendly ISP" (not alltel)
    = or "what's a half-decent ISP"  (not alltel)
    = or "I am a sysadmin consultant who can code in C"

++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.  http://badgertronics.com
  "A large user community of hackers with operating system sources and no
   social lives are a tremendous asset; just look at Linux." -- Martin Frankel