Website Background

Lochgelly.org.uk is a loose group of volunteers from the locality who are willingly giving up their time and skills to develop an online, non-profit, non-commercial, resource site which gathers and centralises historical and present information about Lochgelly in the one location, online. Information is wide ranging and covers local issues, groups, community events, historical data, media, as well as providing an open policy of debate and allowing the Lochgelly community to contribute article, stories, or raise issues within the locality.

Web Volunteers:

James: Technical/General Web Administration & Management, Research & Posts, Proof Reading
Terry: General Web Administration & Management, Research & Posts, Social Networks Administration
Teresa: Research & Posts, Proof Reading
Anthony: Research & Posts,
Michelle: Research & Posts, Social Network Administration
Sarah: Article Submissions Moderator, Social Network Administration
Duncan: Image & Video Contributions
Registered Users: Thanks for contributing and helping the site to grow

Aims & Objectives

This site has grown rapidly, in size and popularity, and, in a short space of time. Initially the site was developed to raise awareness of all the developments happening locally to give everyone an opportunity to have their say on local issues, centralise information about Lochgelly, both past and present, and promote the local area online. Since the site has rapidly evolved due to user demand, we have made the decision to formalise the Social Aims & Objectives in the hope that this site, with local user contributions, will be a useful online tool/resource site to promote better communications between individuals, the local authority, and other non profit groups.

To gather and centralise historical and present information about Lochgelly.
Provide the Lochgelly community with an online platform to encourage open debate on issues affecting Lochgelly.
Provide the Lochgelly community with an online platform in which anyone from the local area can actively contribute to, and share their interests, raise local issues of concern, and share their opinions and views of Lochgelly.
Promote and showcase the strong sense of community spirit that is still available in Lochgelly
Provide local non profit groups with an online platform to help raise awareness of their groups, their social objectives, and all their latest local events, developments, and projects.
Provide useful and easy to follow articles on how to develop a website by utilising Open Source scripts, that require little technical knowledge, and require even less of a budget, just a willingness to learn a new skill.
To only use Open Source technologies to develop this website and use this website as a showcase as to what can be achieved through Open Source technologies for any online project.
Provide useful and easy to follow articles to promote better online practices, online security and safety, and general PC maintenance.
To release as much content as possible under the Creative Commons License, to give anyone the right to re-use, edit & modify, so long as it is not for profit, and any derivative works is released under the same license (See site footer)

Currently we are a non constituted informal voluntary group and all the work we do is not for profit. We may in future decide to formalise the group and become constituted, however, any big decision like this, will be put forward to all site users and contributors to give everyone the opportunity to provide their feedback or support, and a chance to vote on any big decisions with the site. Your vote for the site will be final on any big decisions regardless of the outcome, as this site is for you.

Credits:

Other than the domain name and web space costs (which have been kindly donated to us), this site currently has no other associated running costs in any part of its development. This is due to the fact that a decision was made to utilise Open Source technologies which gives us the freedom to develop a high-end site with no costs. With Open Source technologies, anyone can develop their own high-end website, without the need for any technical knowledge of website coding and programming. All that is needed is time to learn how the product works, a domain name (roughly £10 every 2 years depending on the domain suffix), and a web host (prices vary but a decent web host will cost around £60 per year), and some time to learn the technology to develop your website.

This site wouldn’t have been possible without Open Source technologies and therefore we have listed all the software and plugins we use for this site, with links back to the original authors, as they have voluntary developed a range of useful scripts that have helped further enhance and develop the internet we know today, as well as indirectly supporting this site through their creations. We cannot thank these developers enough for their contributions. Please view the Site Credits on our links page

We would also like to thank all the groups, local authority, individuals, and local emergency services that live or operate in Lochgelly for publicly posting information online about Lochgelly and its current Development and History. Visiting our Links Page will give you access to further information about Lochgelly, gathered together by individuals and local groups.