[ucc] Events on the website

[Samuel Spencer]

Is there a reason we can't start using a hosted solution for things like this?
I'd be really interested as to peoples ideas like "Google Apps for your domain".

With something like this we can offload a lot of the day-to-day
drugery of email/calendars/list management, while still maintaining
administrative control.

We can free up club resources (eg. machine time) for other club
projects, we can see our uptime increase for these services and it
will mean if we have issues in the machine room we can still have some
form of communication.

I understand the reasoning behind the idea of us wanting to
run/manage/host all of these in house, but there has to come a point
where the knowledge we give students is out-weighed by ease-of-use.

Also, while I'm putting ideas that will probably get shot down out
there, anyone against the idea of trying to migrate the club website
to a fully-fledged CMS. Maybe Joomla? While moin-moin will be
suggested, I'm against it solely because of the idea of a flat-file
based cms.



On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:37 PM, James Andrewartha
<trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, David Adam wrote:
>
>> Known issues:
>>  - Can't have more than 31 days worth of events in a list. Not a problem
>>    for the index page but a bit crappy for infobase/events/.
>
> I went looking for where the limit is in the code, but I gave up (Bedework
> is a textbook example of how Java forces overengineered architecture just
> to gain some dynamic flexibility) and just tested days > 31 to find the
> error, but it seems to be happily accepting them now. I've upped the event
> page to list 75 days worth.
>
>>  - Really slow. Workaround might be to cache the JSON feed somewhere on
>>    /services (+/- gzip) and pull that instead.
>
> For some reason it's less slow when the twitter script is disabled. I've
> swapped them around so the upcoming events comes first and it's quick as.
>
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