Group page management

[darobin]

Maintaining pages by hand in CVS is something no one should ever have to do.

I think that part of the problem is that we really shouldn't go the way of developing a full-fledged CMS. They're always clunky, constraining, and would be costly to put together.

We would however greatly benefit some something common and reusable, simple enough to manage and customisable to people who feel comfortable with a little hacking. Consistency across groups would also be a plus.

I have two questions for all y'all:

1) What features would you like to have for your groups?

2) How comfortable would you feel using a system like Jekyll to maintain group pages? You can author in simplified HTML (or Markdown, for those of you who like that poison) and everything gets nicely rendered to a static site you can then publish (e.g. by pushing to git). It's relatively flexible, and you can hack stuff into the templates to get more functionality.

[darobin]

I wonder if Jekyll has a way of managing time-based information.

[darobin]

I could relatively easily build a Jekyll plugin for calendaring information.

[darobin]

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