Generating an RSS feed

[aphilas]

It would be nice to have an RSS feed for the website.

make publish and publish.conf generate the RSS feed. IIUC, the Github Action does not use the publish config and thus the feed is not available.

I also found old PRs that seem to add icons and links for the RSS feeds: #17 and #24.

Since the website is down, I can't conclusively tell whether the feed is available.

[BonfaceKilz]

Hi all. This is a cross-post between GH and our mailing list. @Neville, mucho thanks for creating this issue. That said ... Neville ***@***.***> aliandika:

It would be nice to have an RSS feed for the website. `make publish` and `publish.conf` generate the RSS feed. IIUC, [the Github Action](https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/blob/e221c4403fa28d9b21e4a8c11bf2212a5007ad71/.github/workflows/updatewebsite.yml#L27) does not use the _publish_ config and thus the feed is not available.

... let's first work out the domain business first. I suggest that you create a separate issue for this.

I also found old PRs that seem to add icons and links for the RSS feeds: #17 and #24. Since the website is down, I can't conclusively tell whether the feed is available.

I reckon this was solved. Eebrah has been gracious enough to help out with the domain all these years at his expense. Much thanks for this! You are an OG \m/\m/. That said, for most of the older generation members, the band-width to manage some of the LUG stuff may be demanding and as a consequence we've had several down-times this year that have either gone (a) un-noticed or (b) un-attended to. As a work-around, here's what I propose: - Let's work out a way to transfer the domain from Eebrah to nairobilug[at]gmail[dot]com. Currently, the domain IIUC is hosted on eacdirectory; I don't know how easy it is to make the transfer, but I bet it's do-able. With regards to financing the domain renewal, I wouldn't mind taking that responsibility. Any one else interested can chip in. - Document, probably in an authors/contribs.md or some similar file, which maintainers have access to what, and their gpg public keys. The most relevant resources I can think of at this time are: twitter a/c, and gmail a/c. We could reduce the bus-factor in maintaining these a/c and also breathe in some life in to them. On this note, I would like to request access to the gmail and twitter a/c if the core guys are down with it. My gpg keys can be found in my mail signature. - Should ownership change hands, we could rotate passwords for the relevant a/c. - Set up a cheap monitor for the site. UptimerRobot should work well. Other ideas that have been proposed in the past: - Set up a public ledger and host it somewhere. Track all contribs there. HLedger works well. It has a nice web-ui. This is not a low-hanging fruit, so we can ignore this. Perhaps re-visit this later. What y'all think? How do we get the ball rolling? All opinions are welcome. PS: I've Cc'ed most of the folks who I recall being really active in the LUG. If it's spammy, please let me know, I'll remove you off the Cc in future threads.

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[BonfaceKilz]

[[[ Sorry for the repost. I forgot to send this to the main mailing list ]]] Hi all. This is a cross-post between GH and our mailing list. @Neville, mucho thanks for creating this issue. That said ... Neville ***@***.***> aliandika:

It would be nice to have an RSS feed for the website. `make publish` and `publish.conf` generate the RSS feed. IIUC, [the Github Action](https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/blob/e221c4403fa28d9b21e4a8c11bf2212a5007ad71/.github/workflows/updatewebsite.yml#L27) does not use the _publish_ config and thus the feed is not available.

... let's first work out the domain business first. I suggest that you create a separate issue for this.

I also found old PRs that seem to add icons and links for the RSS feeds: #17 and #24. Since the website is down, I can't conclusively tell whether the feed is available.

I reckon this was solved. Eebrah has been gracious enough to help out with the domain all these years at his expense. Much thanks for this! You are an OG \m/\m/. That said, for most of the older generation members, the band-width to manage some of the LUG stuff may be demanding and as a consequence we've had several down-times this year that have either gone (a) un-noticed or (b) un-attended to. As a work-around, here's what I propose: - Let's work out a way to transfer the domain from Eebrah to nairobilug[at]gmail[dot]com. Currently, the domain IIUC is hosted on eacdirectory; I don't know how easy it is to make the transfer, but I bet it's do-able. With regards to financing the domain renewal, I wouldn't mind taking that responsibility. Any one else interested can chip in. - Document, probably in an authors/contribs.md or some similar file, which maintainers have access to what, and their gpg public keys. The most relevant resources I can think of at this time are: twitter a/c, and gmail a/c. We could reduce the bus-factor in maintaining these a/c and also breathe in some life in to them. On this note, I would like to request access to the gmail and twitter a/c if the core guys are down with it. My gpg keys can be found in my mail signature. - Should ownership change hands, we could rotate passwords for the relevant a/c. - Set up a cheap monitor for the site. UptimerRobot should work well. Other ideas that have been proposed in the past: - Set up a public ledger and host it somewhere. Track all contribs there. HLedger works well. It has a nice web-ui. This is not a low-hanging fruit, so we can ignore this. Perhaps re-visit this later. What y'all think? How do we get the ball rolling? All opinions are welcome. PS: I've Cc'ed most of the folks who I recall being really active in the LUG. If it's spammy, please let me know, I'll remove you off the Cc in future threads.

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[BonfaceKilz]

Happy to help with domain. Most registrars will allow two people, one owner and an administrator. There does need to be an owner that is a legal entity. Adding some information in the repo, and possibly also the site about who does what is a good idea. Adding forwarding addresses on the domain would also be great, for example ***@***.***

[BonfaceKilz]

Benson Muite ***@***.***> aliandika:

Happy to help with domain. Most registrars will allow two people, one owner and an administrator.

TIL!

There does need to be an owner that is a legal entity.

I reckon it's easier to just have a volunteer be that legal entity.

Adding some information in the repo, and possibly also the site about who does what is a good idea. Adding forwarding addresses on the domain would also be great, for example ***@***.***

These are solid ideas. I'll see who I can ping to get things rolling.

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