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In lugnet.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> So the problem is to draw Swedish people to the lugnet.loc.se.* groups,
> say?
Yup!
> How about this idea: If there is a coutry where at least one LEGO
> interested person lives, some people from that country can make the
> unofficial regional LUGNET homepage for that country, in the regional
> language, subject to a lot of constraints as to the design of the web
> page and so on, obviously. This homepage will have links to regional
> resources, such as shops, MOC's, meetings and so on. _And_ it will have
> links to the regional lugnet.loc.* groups.
>
> The point here is that people from Sweden, say, can go to the unofficial
> Swedish LUGNET homepage, read it in Swedish, visit links to other
> Swedish LEGO resources, and read the lugnet.loc.se.* groups (in Swedish
> or English, I suppose).
Something like that would be wonderful.
> Administering this will be hard, but I suppose one can make rigid
> templates for the regional homepages, so that devoted people from the
> country in question can just fill in the information needed.
Hmmm, I wonder if off-site pages would really benefit from a rigid template,
because that could be left to the on-site pages for the subgroups. (It'd be
nearly impossible to enforce an off-site template, anyway -- so the best it
could be is a starting point.)
The new website structure, for example
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/se/
is a first tiny step toward templates for subgroups... It's very easy to
add new links, for example, and of course all the latest news messages
automatically appear there for the whole lugnet.loc.se.* hierarchy. Later
the left column will turn into something more general where arbitrary
hypertext can be placed (including links) and sub-pages can be defined for
any group. That'll all be on a rigid-template basis so it can be integrated
with the core DB's and also to keep a consistent user interface across the
site. Rigid templates are nice for some things, but they'll never be able
to do the great variety of things that are happening at places like
www.baylug.org (San Francisco Bay Area LEGO Users Group), www.pnltc.org
(Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club), and www.ldraw.org (The LDraw Project),
for instance.
> Does it sound like a good idea?
I like it. Would you like to start a new thread for this, crossposted to
lugnet.admin.general and lugnet.loc.se, with a URL link back to this node
on the present thread for additional background?
--Todd
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