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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/11/2020 8:21 AM, Ian Hinder wrote:<br>
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<p class="">So the question is, what do we do about the
website? We don't have the time, person-power, or budget
to maintain it. At present, the website is full of
things that are horribly out of date and likely does
more harm than good for anyone reading it.</p>
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<div>Hi Steve,</div>
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<div>For time, person power and budget, how would this change if
it were moved to be under the ET website?</div>
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<p>I don't have a dollar or hour figure, but the svn repo is
maintained by CCT, which sits on a server which has to be upgraded
from time to time and there are svn client server version issues,
etc. Similar issues apply to the webserver. The machine has to be
upgraded from time to time, which includes going and getting new
docs, etc. If we put a webserver on github and served
cactuscode.org out of a docker image like we do for the ET, that
would simplify upgrades and refreshing. It would also help us to
document what the website does and make it possible to host it
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<p>My belief is that if we want to keep a cactuscode.org website, we
should all help in updating it and making it worthwhile.</p>
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<div>Is the issue related to keeping the content up-to-date, or
infrastructure issues like maintaining a separate webserver
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Mostly, it's keeping the content relevant, but the website updated
and running is a bit of a hassle too.<br>
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<div>Deleting content which is out of date would help. <br>
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Right, but there's a lot of content and I don't have the time to go
through it all--I don't think anyone does. I think we need to ask
what the minimum thing is that we want. What are the critical set of
pages?<br>
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<p class="">We could make a website that's just a few
well-chosen pages with a similar template to the ETK.</p>
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Reducing the amount of administrative duplication is certainly
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<p>It's more than desirable IMHO, it's necessary. Also, in recent
months we've been working to decentralize administration and make
sure that more than one person knows how to keep various things
running. This is another opportunity to continue that trend.<br>
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<p>--Steve<br>
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