Using Facebook as a Website
In the meeting, I also mentioned using Facebook. This is just about the easiest thing to set up. Here is an example Facebook Page that I have created. You do not need to sign in to Facebook to read it. https://www.facebook.com/SturbridgeForElizabethWarren /Steve -- Steven Greenberg Email: steve@ssgreenberg.name 251 Holland Rd. Phone: (774)241-0095 Fiskdale, Massachusetts 01518-1231 Web: www.ssgreenberg.name Other Email: s.greenberg@ieee.org ssg@alum.mit.edu
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:15:27AM -0500, Steven Greenberg wrote:
In the meeting, I also mentioned using Facebook. This is just about the easiest thing to set up. [quote trimmed for brevity]
WLUG already has a Facebook group created by Tim Keller: https://www.facebook.com/groups/worcester.linux.users.group/?fref=ts
Facebook required me to log in or sign up in order to access the page at the link provided. Using Facebook as the WLUG website would exclude me from having access to it. Liz J On 13 December 2012 00:15, Steven Greenberg <steve@ssgreenberg.name> wrote:
In the meeting, I also mentioned using Facebook. This is just about the easiest thing to set up.
Here is an example Facebook Page that I have created. You do not need to sign in to Facebook to read it.
https://www.facebook.com/SturbridgeForElizabethWarren
/Steve -- Steven Greenberg Email: steve@ssgreenberg.name 251 Holland Rd. Phone: (774)241-0095 Fiskdale, Massachusetts 01518-1231 Web: www.ssgreenberg.name Other Email: s.greenberg@ieee.org ssg@alum.mit.edu _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
From: E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com>
Facebook required me to log in or sign up in order to access the page at the link provided.
Using Facebook as the WLUG website would exclude me from having access to it.
As I said at the Wed. meeting, Facebook must die. I don't think Facebook would exclude me, because I have already excluded it. I do think the fact that nobody, except Chuck, remembered the FB page that is already there, tells you all you need to know about how useful it is. I am happy with the mailing list; I have never used the web page, though I did look at it a couple of times just to see that it was there, but if somebody else wants to maintain other web pages, I have no objection. The web is made of pages I never look at. It's not a problem. -- Keith
Facebook is about as far away from open source as one can get. On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us> wrote:
From: E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com>
Facebook required me to log in or sign up in order to access the page at the link provided.
Using Facebook as the WLUG website would exclude me from having access to it.
As I said at the Wed. meeting, Facebook must die.
I don't think Facebook would exclude me, because I have already excluded it. I do think the fact that nobody, except Chuck, remembered the FB page that is already there, tells you all you need to know about how useful it is.
I am happy with the mailing list; I have never used the web page, though I did look at it a couple of times just to see that it was there, but if somebody else wants to maintain other web pages, I have no objection.
The web is made of pages I never look at.
It's not a problem.
-- Keith _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Clint Moyer <cdmoyer@charter.net> wrote:
Facebook is about as far away from open source as one can get.
Actually, while you're correct that FB's product is a walled garden, the company itself is a big user of and, more importantly, contributor to OSS. I'd not seen a list, but Google showed me http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ -BR
While its true I created the FB wlug group, I don't think we should use Facebook... I'd rather we own our data. Plus it would end up excluding too many people. A broader question we should ask is "what do we want the wlug website to be?" One thing that I think we should try to do is start recording talks and putting them up on YouTube and then link to them from the website. I'm all for the wiki, just that we'd want to think about access controls, etc. merely to keep the vandals off. I think this is easy, just force accounts. My .02 dollars. Tim. On Dec 13, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Brett Russ <bruss@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Clint Moyer <cdmoyer@charter.net> wrote:
Facebook is about as far away from open source as one can get.
Actually, while you're correct that FB's product is a walled garden, the company itself is a big user of and, more importantly, contributor to OSS. I'd not seen a list, but Google showed me http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ -BR _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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