We need a platform to publish our official statements and other updates

Pirate Bady Public Seen by 132

Currently fsci.in is a plain HTML website and updating it everytime when we have to publish a new statement or any other update is not so easy. So it'll be better if we can switch to a blogging system. Hugo is a static site generator (SSG) written in Go and it already has a template that matches the current template of fsci.in so that migration will be easy. Also, Karthik has volunteered to migrate our website to Hugo. While some people support SSG based solutions, some vote for innovative solutions like using writefreely.org which supports federation and hence can be followed from mastodon and so on. Please comment your suggestions.

Deleted User

Sun 19 Jul 2020 11:45AM

The current Hugo implementation can already have blog section too.

shine

Sun 19 Jul 2020 12:21PM

I don't see any disadvantages in the current system. they are 2 different platforms that does the same thing - blog posts.

the idea here was to get blog posts to post to ActivityPub automatically.

ghost does not support ActivityPub as far as I know. so this would essentially be out of scope of this discussion.

Pirate Praveen

Mon 20 Jul 2020 7:58AM

I think we already have xml feeds and we just need to find a way to convert that to activity pub. For other features, we already have loomio.

Ranjithsiji

Tue 21 Jul 2020 2:58PM

The Hugo instance can host a blog or something like that. So It is better to integrate it into this.

Kannan V M Sun 19 Jul 2020 12:02PM

@Syam can you elaborate on the benefits on ghost.org?

Syam Sun 19 Jul 2020 12:19PM

it's a node-based system. also supports mailing list and news letters on latest posts. .. requries a 1 core 2gb VM .

shine Sun 19 Jul 2020 12:40PM

and we're running hugo completely serverless off of gitlab pages

Karthik Tue 21 Jul 2020 2:38PM

Syam Sun 19 Jul 2020 12:45PM

this poll is meaningless then.

Poll Created Tue 21 Jul 2020 2:12PM

Add a simple privacy policy page to the website. Closed Fri 24 Jul 2020 2:00PM

Outcome

by Deleted User Fri 24 Jul 2020 4:39PM

Proposal is accepted but we need to work on details and we need to create common privacy policy for all services, with subsections for various services which deal with the specific details of those services.

There was a discussion on matrix about adding privacy policy to the website and updating the existing poddery one. @devkabiir Has made the proposal for updating poderry policy here. I propose that we should have a basic policy page for this website as well.

According to the discussion on the channel, we don't story any cookies or have any other tracking enabled on the website. But there may be some question about the following:

Where the website is hosted.
What is data retention policy for the nginx or apache logs
Who to contact when any violation is found or when something is wrong with the website.

I think the policy page can be straight forward and can be just these or any other relevant questions and answers to them.

For example:

Privacy Policy

Information about the website

Website owned by - Free Software Community Of India.
Website Data hosted on - Hetzner ( I am not sure here, if yes then link to their privacy policy)
Email contact - hello@fsci.org.in

Data Collection

We don't track any visitor on this website and we don't use any other services which will track our visitors.
We don't store any cookies.
The IP address of the visitor is logged in the server's log and we delete this log every week (i don't know if we have any policy about retention so please help)
We need to keep these logs to help us in troubleshooting in case of any disruption in the working of the website.
If you have any suggestions or request regarding the data collection please mail us on the email contact given above.

In case, I left out anything please add or if you want to improve this more let us know. We would like to know what you think about this proposal.

Thank you