[HacktionLab] mark up + template -> html (was Drupocalypse v3 Can it ever stop)

[Kate Dawson]

FYI

Ansible playbook to install discourse on a Debian host

https://git.coop/webarch/discourse


This would work on a $5/Month Digital Ocean VPS 

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/linux-distribution/debian/


Hope that helps. 

Kate


On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:07:25PM +0100, mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org wrote:
> In terms of sharing the workload, as clara discussed
> A community run server running discourse instances would be a good
> resource if people didn't want to off load comments / discussion to the
> corporates via embedding disqus or similar.
> 
> There's already a docker image
> https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker
> 
> I'm not volunteering personally mind, I'm just interested in tactics
> delivering non corporate web presence in partnership with others.
> 
> Thanks
> Mick
> 
> 
> On 27/04/18 13:30, mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org wrote:
> > I like that link!
> >
> > This seems like a good workflow to do skill sharing around in activist /
> > campaign and community networks.
> >
> > Mick
> >
> >
> > On 27/04/18 12:56, Kate Dawson wrote:
> >> There are quite a lot of static HTML generators out there. 
> >> They work really well for sites, that don't require dynamic
> >> applications. As a plus point, it's really cheap to host ( as no
> >> database/php/ruby ... whatever ) is required on the hosting side, and
> >> also sites will be fast to render on the server side. 
> >>
> >> So .. if you've got a brochure site.. About Us/What we do/Example
> >> action1/Example Action 2/Contact Us(Corporate Social details) etc.. it
> >> will work great; and you  can offload all the dynamic stuff to the
> >> corporates ( e.g commenting, contact stuff ). 
> >>
> >> Markdown is very simple to learn, it's fast to write. Add twitter cards/
> >> facebook opengraph metadata to the template. Publish to gitlab pages; share on
> >> social media.  You can even edit the markdown using the text editor in
> >> gitlab.
> >>
> >> https://gitlab.com/groups/pages
> >>
> >> It's definitely a viable alternative to spinning up a wordpress or other
> >> dynamic app for simple websites.
> >>
> >> Kate
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:58:26AM +0100, mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org wrote:
> >>> Don't let this stop you Mike! ( I know it won't)
> >>>
> >>> But what's a better solution now for amateur creators?
> >>>
> >>> I heard about jeckle or something to convert mark up to html
> >>> so learning mark up is doable right?
> >>> and using git web interface to write the markup
> >>>
> >>> and then and active period
> >>> and then deploy and forget with URI s that do change.
> >>>
> >>> What would people suggest as a tool set to do that. ?
> >>>
> >>> Mick
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 27/04/18 08:18, Mike Harris wrote:
> >>>> On 2018-04-26 23:36, Kate Dawson wrote:
> >>>> I think that's more than OK, and have the same problem with hosting
> >>>> ancient web sites that are not maintained by their owners.  I end up
> >>>> maintaining them myself, for free.  It's not worth it.
> >>>>
> >>>> (note to self: stop doing this).
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