As a result of discussions at the recent monthly meeting (please see the minutes) it has been decided to relax the rules on what can be posted to the GLUG website.

This is part of a small packages of changes which are being made to the site. You may have noticed the new disclaimer at the top of the forum pages, indeed there has been a change in name from ‘blog’ to ‘forum’.

The aim is to encourage members to interact with the site again, something which suffered as a result of event many members will be all to familiar with. It is important to stress that there isn’t now a free for all though the committee believe that the new, less overbearing guidelines will allow and encourage more people to post about a wider range of relevant topics. It is hoped that the forum will begin to be used by members more, rather than being almost exclusively reserved for the committee, which it isn’t!

Your personal profile provides a link to the current version of the guidelines and there’s also a link in the members’ profile system page.

For reference though, below are 3 links, one to the old guidelines, one to the new and one to an automatically generated page which shows the additions, subtractions and alterations made between the two versions which should make comparing the old with the new very easy.

Old Guidelines
New Guidelines
Comparison Old v New

Cheers

Mark
(Webmaster)

The minutes for September’s monthly meeting are now available on the site. Just because I’m mean, and I want people to visit the site and see the new welcome page… I’m not including the link in this post!

The link is available on the new front page in the meeting box, top left!

Of course, comments on and suggestions for the new welcome page gratefully received, just remember it’s a work in progress so try to be constructive please! Hopefully it addresses all the whinging about how unfriendly the site is and aims to present all the essential stuff up front. I’m particularly interested in hearing about anything which you feel really should feature on the front page.

Rest assured the remainder of the site is as it use to be but gone from the front page is the image, calendar, side bars, search etc etc!

The yellow highlighting on the posts and comments list (when logged in) indicates the items which have been posted since you last logged in… which for many will be the whole lot!

More changes on the way… you’re not getting off that lightly!

Mark

(Webmaster)