gtalug.org wiki and howtos?

[Scott Elcomb]

On 4/13/06, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Daniel Armstrong wrote:
> > On 4/13/06, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> Would there be any interest/use in a howto section on gtalug.org? I've
> >> been fiddling with gmail and exim4 today and finally got it (sort of)
> >> working. There are lots of other howtos for this (and
> >> postfix/sendmail/gmail) out there, but none are really comprehensive
> >> i.e. going over mailsever basics and such too. Just wondering if people
> >> of all skill levels would be willing to contribute to any howto?
> >
> > In a similar vein, would there be any interest in setting up a news
> > aggregator to bring together the feeds of GTALUG members... sort of
> > along the lines of "Planet Debian" - http://planet.debian.net/ - maybe
> > a "Planet GTALUG"?
> >
> > That way, we could pool together our linux adventures and write our
> > HOWTOs in the tool of our choice - blogs, wikis, whatever can provide
> > a feed - and provide a single combined feed that we could subscribe.
> > This might prove a nice complement to a HOWTO wiki page.
>
> That's a great idea. surely someone would like to showoff their perl
> hackery skills and create an rss scraper? Perhaps PHP then?

I think both are really good ideas.  Doing RSS stuff in Perl isn't
that difficult, and I suspect it's about as easy in PHP.  I'd love to
help on this front, but I'm bogged down with various projects over the
next couple months.  If somebody wants to pick it up and run with it,
feel free to drop a line.  ;-)

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