Github pages is fantastic for hosting small, static projects for free. While Github might be a great place to host source code and collaborate, Github Pages is not a good solution (in my opinion) for hosting the public-facing pages. For one, Github has the right to enforce traffic limits<http://www.quora.com/GitHub/What-are-bandwidth-and-traffic-limits-for-GitHub-pages>, as the hosting is free; and Tor has the assets to host this on independent infrastructure. It's also an issue of control and trust. Github as a company is probably very friendly to Tor, but it's too big and too public to trust as the canonical source for hosting software of this importance. For anyone interested, though, Github Pages really are excellent for hosting small sites with ease. I use it for all my little side projects. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Rey Dhuny <rey@spcshp.com> wrote:
+0.5 for hosting on Github (not sure if this is a good idea, but I do love Github)
I use GitHub Pages (http://pages.github.com) for most of the stuff I build on Jekyll and recommend it though I'm not sure how this would fit in with the Tor project.
Presumably the website would have to be living on Tor project's infrastructure in terms of servers, version control, CDN, etc?
Also I'm not sure how GitHub Pages would scale to:
It should generate static web pages, ready to be mirrored by our network of more than 70 mirrors.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/www-team/2014-January/000017.html
A question for Lunar regarding the infrastructure requirements methinks :)
Rey
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On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 17:56, Sam E. Lawrence wrote:
+1 for IRC chan. +0.5 for hosting on Github (not sure if this is a good idea, but I do love Github)
Hello everyone, I'm Sam Lawrence.
I have some experience in front-end development (JS/CSS/HTML/MarkDown/XML), but my day to day job is a QA Engineer (think SQL and legacy Windows Enterprise stuff). I don't know how much I can contribute from a dev perspective, but in a former life I ran support at a startup and have rewritten KnowledgeBases and FAQ pages. Good documentation makes me happy, and educating users brings me real joy. I will do anything I can to help take laymen and give them a solid grounding in security knowledge and help them use Tor in the best possible ways.
I'm very good at taking big technical concepts and breaking them down into bite-sized chunks that anyone can understand, including drawing analogies, teaching with questioning, and encouraging new learners.
Let me know how I can be useful. Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter @samelawrence (or @sel on ADN)
Sam
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Rey Dhuny <rey@spcshp.com> wrote:
Hello,
What do folk think about an IRC channel for www-team?
I'm Rey and I would like to throw my hat in and help out where I can.
Primarily a front end developer I have a fair bit of experience with static generators (Jekyll, Middleman, nanoc).
Words I like include HTML/CSS, HAML/SASS, responsive frameworks, Grunt, Compass and all that good stuff.
Rey
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