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2020 BNUG February Meeting—A Business Website Primer

In this discussion, we’ll explore the core tasks of creating an effective website from scratch. We’ll ask and answer such questions as:

  * What is domain registration? How does it differ from web hosting?
  * What is an A record? What is a CNAME record?
  * How does DNS help people find your website?
  * What is an SSL certificate? Do I have to pay for it?
  * What is the connection between my domain name, my website and email?
  * What are the pros and cons about the different providers?
     > Dreamhost, Siteground, godaddy, 1and1, hostgator, others?
     > Private registration; subdomains; email forwarding; etc
  * Exploration of cpanel
  * Overview of HTML vs Wordpress vs a proprietary web builder
  * (And we're sure there's more stuff to discuss)
  * Demo of creating a website from idea to product

• President
• Vice President
• Secretary
• Treasurer

Consider adding department heads

• Food coordinator
• Outreach coordinator/committee (bring in members)

However, the web site shows an ethical issue: it asks people
to confirm attendance using an online dis-service, meetup.com.
It requires visitors to run nonfree Javascript code, and it
collects personal data, thus contributing to massive surveillance.
These are two of the things I would denounce in my talk,
See stallman.org/eventbrite.html, which also covers meetup.com.

I would feel hypcritical asking people to use meetup to come to
my talk.

Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Adam to contact him and suggest we collect attendees not using meetup, instead have attendees send email to sign up. Or else not require anyone to RSVP.

Person speaking has serious ethical questions about meetup and thus we are not using meetup for signups. Instead send your RSVP to president@bnug.org; and come to the meeting to learn more about his concern and reasons for avoiding meetup.

Possible to have ham operator talk about packet radio (steveP) maybe this summer

people need to be able to send stuff safely to each other, so there are different ways people cope with this, let's discuss ways to deal with this safely and securely.
People aren't complying with since it's difficult to do.
Using key encryption, encryption using acrobat and winzip
Raise consciousness about “wishful encryption”

[Evie]Contact Rho about meeting contents - following is tentative
TENTATIVE: How teaching robots to function, then demo this (“I'm a Microsoft proponent” for example). Technical details on design and program robots.
We'd like to see the code and learn how it does this and that to the robot.

• Lab training proposed by Glenn
  • Is there enough interest in BNUG membership to run one of these?
  • Where could we run this?
    • [steve-glenn]Should we see if MassBay can host this? (would need a classroom we can use & secure for two+ whole days); if acceptable I(steve) can check w/Tony.
    • (Could use Lexington Community Center but would need to give them % of profits and might have difficulty scheduling the event as they are a busy center!)
    • [glenn]Could Microsoft Burlington host this?
    • Other places?

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