[ale] How Do I Join?

[Geoffrey]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> 
>> Personally, you sound a bit arrogant to me.  If you want to help support
>> the website, the first thing you should do is find out who currently
>> does that.  Then, you should contact them and discuss your
>> concerns/ideas.  Throw something together, stick it out there and see
>> what people think.  If people like it, then you'll have to wrestle with
>> the folks who currently maintain the site.  By the way, I think you own
>> them an apology.  You said their work was ugly. That is your opinion,
>> and as we know, everyone's got one of those.  How about providing some
>> substance?
>>
> 
> As the sysadmin for ale.org, I can speak to this.
> We are running wordpress for the site itself. Please feel free to set
> up your own wordpress installation (ain't open source grand!) pound in
> your design ideas and send a link to me (and the rest of the whiners
> who _HAVEN'T_ volunteered to refresh the look :-) and I be more than
> happy to take a look at it. I guess you would need to package it up as
> a wordpress theme. We currently use a theme from many years ago.
> 
> I don't view the current site as "ugly" but rather "dated".
> 
> Lastly, NO FLASH ANIMATION!!! (and minimal abuse of javascript to move
> things around on the page please. Some of the geezers still don't have
> X running so they use links and mutt exclusively. :}

Amen on these requirements. ;)


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin