[Ubuntu-SG] FOSA - Software Freedom Day Singapore 2010 Meeting Summary

[C David Rigby]

On Monday 07,June,2010 03:12 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:08:06 +0800
> Chow Loong Jin<hyperair at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:34:09 +0800
>> C David Rigby<c.david.rigby at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On Monday 07,June,2010 02:26 PM, Billy AM wrote:
>>>        
>>>> we stick to wiki till SFD .. its just that I feel we shouldn't have a>
>>>> site offline message for ubuntu.sg<http://ubuntu.sg>.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Billy has a good point - it looks bad. However, lacking access to the
>>> server, I cannot set up a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection and
>>> I do not think DNS will handle what we want to do, which is redirect to
>>> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SingaporeTeam from http://ubuntu.sg.
>>>
>>> Without going into details, the cleanest option is a new hosting account.
>>> That's not the least expensive option, so I am considering other
>>> possibilities.
>>>        
>> Why isn't something like
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection#Refresh_Meta_tag_and_HTTP_refresh_header
>> possible? Currently it serves out a html page, doesn't it? Don't you have
>> control over the html page?
>>
>>      
> Er actually please forget what I said. I didn't read what you wrote properly.
>
>    
No worries! There is actually movement afoot to get a basic site up and 
operational in the short term, at least a basic page to provide links to 
our other resources. The conversation is taking place both in the 
mailing list AND as a series of emails. More evidence that we need a web 
site, I suppose.

Cheers
David