brent timothy saner on 10 May 2017 08:06:44 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] plug Digest, Vol 150, Issue 9


On 05/10/2017 10:27 AM, Paul L. Snyder wrote:
> Happily, mct now has the website automatically deploying from GitHub, so
> no more subversion. Pull request to get the videos added in would be
> excellent.
> 
>   https://github.com/phillylinux/phillylinux.github.io
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Tue, 09 May 2017, Charlie Li wrote:
> 
>> On 09/05/2017 19:31, brent saner wrote:
>>> who maintains phillylinux.org <http://phillylinux.org> these days? if I
>>> write a python script that scrapes and parses the list archives via cron
>>> and spits out an html list to the google groups links, would we be able
>>> to do that? it strikes me odd that we don't have a centralized reference
>>> for them as well (and I'm in agreement that the google+ indexing/search
>>> is... fairly atrocious. ironic, that)
>>>
>> Those of us who were physically present at Paul's "Generative Testing"
>> talk at West got to sorta witness the convoluted (or so I think) website
>> deployment process. ;-)
>>
>> As for making it easy to find videos of the talks, I'd briefly mentioned
>> to Keith once about making a PLUG youtube channel. Turns out you no
>> longer need a proper G+ *page* to create a youtube channel (our current
>> G+ presence is actually what they call a *community*) so we don't have
>> to worry about what we have now. When I did that livestream of
>> AndyWojo's AIX talk, I did it off my personal channel, so it would
>> definitely be better if they all originated from a consistent and
>> sensibly-named source that people can subscribe to. Furthermore, youtube
>> livestreaming automatically saves the finished stream as a regular video
>> so we can all relive all the trolling until me or Keith upload something
>> from a camera lens without fisheye.
>>
>> -- 
>> Charlie Li
>> Can't think of a witty .sigline today???
>>
>> (This email address is for mailing list use only;
>> replace local-part with vishwin for off-list communication)
>>

I think a YT channel would definitely work well. Charlie, Keith, can we
get an ETA on when you could have a channel created and have the videos
trasnferred there? Once that's done (or even once the channel is
created, I suppose) we could get a GH PR to MCT for the link to the
channel to replace the link to the Google+ link.

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