[vox-announce] Tons of old photos finally posted

Rod Roark rod at sunsetsystems.com
Sun Sep 13 14:22:08 PDT 2015


Thanks Bill!  The pics look good.  Another problem with a CMS is they
are constantly upgrading things and you have to stay on top of it to
ensure that nothing breaks.  They work best when you have content
maintainers who are not very tech-savvy.

Rod

On 09/13/2015 12:52 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> I've finally dug around my personal photo set over on
> Facebook (where I've been instantaneously uploading shots
> I take at LUGOD with my cellphones), and put up a bunch
> of LUGOD meetings (plus Jan. 2013's demo at the Co-Op)
> over at http://www.lugod.org/photos/
>
> Still to-do:  some missing presentation slides, and tons
> of old minutes.  (I may just resort to dumping the plain
> ASCII TXT that I've been getting from Andrew, for example,
> rather than wasting time trying to HTML'ize things.)
>
> PS - Sorry for lack of photo annotations; I was catching
> up with over 2 years' worth of photos, so I did the minimal
> amount of work needed.  (I actually wrote a little PHP function
> that finds & <img src>'s photos in the directory, rather than
> doing all of that by hand, which I normally do.)
>
> Now, you may wonder: why not use a proper CMS?  I'm too old-school,
> we've occasionally changed web hosts, CMS software is so often
> buggy & targets of hacking, and all seemed like too much effort,
> versus benefit, for the amount of content we get (1 meeting/month).



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