diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1335f71ae66..3bb2b3b946c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -336,6 +336,13 @@
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>${maven.site.version}</version>
+          <dependencies>
+            <dependency><!-- add support for ssh/scp -->
+              <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
+              <artifactId>wagon-ssh</artifactId>
+              <version>2.2</version>
+            </dependency>
+          </dependencies>
           <configuration>
             <inputEncoding>UTF-8</inputEncoding>
             <outputEncoding>UTF-8</outputEncoding>
@@ -2278,4 +2285,19 @@
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </reporting>
+  <distributionManagement>
+    <!--Build and deploy the site with the below command
+
+      $ ~/bin/apache-maven-3.0.4/bin/mvn -X clean site:site site:deploy
+
+      You may need a settings.xml file under you ~/.m2/ directory as
+      described here: http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html
+      We should use the below going forward because it ensures permissions up
+      in apache making it so other members of hbase group can deploy w/o issue.
+     -->
+    <site>
+      <id>apache.website</id>
+      <url>scp://people.apache.org/www/hbase.apache.org/</url>
+    </site>
+  </distributionManagement>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index ce4f76cca04..cb0d2d36817 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled a
             <p>June 15th, 2012 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/59829652/">Birds-of-a-feather</a> in San Jose, day after <a href="hadoopsummit.org">Hadoop Summit</a></p>
             <p>May 23rd, 2012 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/58953522/">HackConAthon</a> in Palo Alto</p>
             <p>May 22nd, 2012 <a href="http://www.hbasecon.com">HBaseCon2012</a> in San Francisco</p>
-            <p>March 27th, 2012 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/56021562/">Meetup @ StumbleUpon</a> in San Francisco</p>
 
       <p><small><a href="old_news.html">Old News</a></small></p>
     </section>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/old_news.xml b/src/site/xdoc/old_news.xml
index 28a0ec662e7..19a1fb137cc 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/old_news.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/old_news.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
   <section name="Old News">
+            <p>March 27th, 2012 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/56021562/">Meetup @ StumbleUpon</a> in San Francisco</p>
 
             <p>January 19th, 2012 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/46702842/">Meetup @ EBay</a></p>
             <p>January 23rd, 2012 HBase 0.92.0 released. <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/">Download it!</a></p>
