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That is;

• Google+
• Facebook
• Linkedin

... and link all to nairuby.org

I think that each contributor should keep editor and OS specific files out of the projects .gitignore file. Considering different people use different tools ...

The projects .gitignore should only contain project specific files and folders to be ignore ...

See here for an explanation as to why this would be best practice; why we should use a global ignore

Set up Google webmaster and Google Analytics for some SEO & stat reporting respectively.

Ps: Accounts already created, so if you are reading this don't create. Update to the tracking code and set up of Webmaster will be done as soon as possible.

Here’s a guide to setting up the DNS for GitHub pages on Namecheap http://davidensinger.com/2013/03/setting-the-dns-for-github-pages-on-namecheap/

This page exists but isn't public in the sense that it's not linked to in the homepage and kinda isn't styled (I'm working on styling for pages) ... but it's ready enough for commits to add links to it ... navigate to nairuby.org/learn/.

The plan is to create a "Learning Resources" hub ... see here for the source file to be a comprehensive learning resource centre section depending on the different facets of Ruby programming.

Going forward we should you populate that instead of the homepage and link to it ... what's there is just a placeholder. Just pushed up the structure so that you can see what I'm talking about.

@GEORGEG This is in light of your latest pull request #16 changing all learning resources to strict Ruby, from Rails. Which was was an oversight that might have ended up turning the community into a Rails user group 👍

With this approach everyone can contribute learning resources within their area of focus.

Currently the homepage has links that are either broken or non-existent ... these need updating:

• Pages that need to be created:
  • Meetings page
  • Presentations page
  • Code of conduct page
• Links that need to be updated:
  • Main mailing list
  • Beginner's mailing list
  • Twitter page

These pages aren't linked to but might be good to have in the future (these could just be a section on the homepage):

• How to contribute page (including what needs contributing)
• About/history page
• Members page (list with avatars, I think)

At the moment we are using the logo from the PDX Ruby Brigade ... since we don't have one. We should update this logo on the organisation page as well as add nairuby.org as the organisation official page ...

Looks bad right now.

We would like to have events page on nairuby.org websites. The following events should be added;

• Ruby workshop - http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ruby-workshop-tickets-16154746281?aff=ehomefriend
• Ruby conference - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rubyconf-ke-2015-tickets-15386615782

We should have a navigation bar or side bar to show all the pages in the site.

Right now in order to know the pages that exists in the site one has to go through the home page from top to down and discover the pages by clicking links... so I recommend we create a navigation bar or side bar that will list important pages in the site.

As the title suggests. If we don't have one I have some ideas that haven't been taken.

Also could be referred to as Community Participation Guidelines

A good example would by Ubuntu's Code of Conduct v2.0 which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. We may re-use it in this project, and modify it as we wish as long as we allow others to use our modifications and give credit to the Ubuntu Project!

Page that will contain Nairuby presentation guidelines

It would be very welcome to set up an IRC (internet relay chat) channel. IRC is a great way for people who don’t otherwise know each other to meet and interact. I will suggest setting it up at Freenode

Freenode is an IRC server with a very specific mission: “to provide discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities, for not-for-profit organizations and for related communities and organizations”. It is a very friendly place and active moderators keep it comfortable and inviting.

"It is a great place for people new to a technology to learn the ropes, meet like-minded professionals, and help others."

Transfer moderation of nairuby google group to [email protected] or add [email protected] as an admin.

The current logo is a placeholder. We should get our own ... currently working on it.

Create nairuby official email addresses like [email protected] and [email protected].

Would like to discuss if we should have a membership page and what exactly will be it's functions.

I guess not everyone would want to be listed publicly as a member i.e. privacy concerns.

Or should we just leave membership to participation ... i.e. those people who participate and are subscribed to the mailing list.

This ultimately will require us to define what/who a member is ...

I don't know if I'm being a control freak :-) but I think we should clean up some repos that were created when everyone had admin i.e. push access.

Personal projects should be on member profiles ... and if they scale then they should/could transferred to the organisation profile after which everyone else can contribute by sending in pull requests.

The Nairuby GitHub organisation namespace should only house projects that are related to the organisation collectively.

These seem to be defunct personal projects;

• Nairuby/nairuby_site - updated over a year ago
• Nairuby/rest-graph - updated over 10 months ago (I can't figure how this is related to Nairuby)

This one seems defunct as well and lacks proper documentation to explain what it's purpose is so that someone else could e.g. take it up);

• Nairuby/kujifunza - updated over 2 years ago

This one should stay 👍

• Nairuby/nairuby rails app - for historical purposes especially since it has over 143 commits. It has however not been updated in the last 8 months. When we grow out of Jekyll, it might come in handy.

Currently there seems to be two communication approaches for Nairuby ...

• Meetup platform on Groupspaces
• Google Groups ([email protected])

For consistency we need to decide which one will be the official communication channel.

At the moment, the site links to the [email protected] ... which is an assumption on my part.

My two cents is that with a proper website (which is what we are developing now), we just need [email protected] and keep it active ... it's easier to use and most of the members probably have Google accounts already.

Oh and Twitter.

Let's discuss.

@GEORGEG There's a listing of Ruby user groups around the world at rubyusergroups.org with an entry "Nairobi Ruby Users Group" in Kenya. Seems like you were the one who set it up as it links to a rubyforge account set up by you back in 2007.

Any ideas? If you are the one, you can update it (if it requires login, not too sure) ... if not there's a message at the top of the page which says;

If we've got your group details wrong, please berate us at [email protected]