Agree completely on the single site. I think drupal on dhis2.org could host all of it. I am not too worried where as long as we have ssh access. I suspect the demo server would have to run separately (php hosting vs java hosting?) but that is not a real problem.
Regards Bob 2009/10/29 Jason Pickering <[email protected]> > The rest of the content of this mail can be ignored, but anyway, my > feelings on this. > > <flame> > We MUST simplify the number of sites. I know of the following that are > related to DHIS > > 1) hisp.info > 2) dhis2.org > 3) dhis2.com > 4) phitoolkit.org > 5) openhealthconsortium.org > 6) http://208.76.222.114 > 7) hispkerala.org > 8) dhismobile.info > 9) launchpad > > > I think there are probably others. I realize that some of these sites > serve different purposes to different groups, but IMHO, DHIS is a > great product that suffers from really poor marketing. Having > information spread across all these different sites spreads thin > resources and creates confusion among people trying to access > information on DHIS. We, as a community, need to consolidate all of > this information into a single portal at the least, and a single site > at best. > > I honestly think, if there is anyway, to create a single site, that > has documentation, demos, links to the source code, a wiki for more > informal documentation, a forum, etc...this would be the way to go. I > personally favour dhis2.org because it sounds less commercial than > dhis2.com. Most people have no idea what HISP is (I have been trying > to figure out for years but still have not a very good grip on it > either!) and it really does not matter for those using the prodcuct > DHIS2 or 1.4, born out of HISP. > > I > > I think if the university can host the site, this would be the best > way to ensure sustainability. It is just a DNS record. After all the > investment the university has put into the product, they should be > able to host a DNS record after all. > > </flame> > > OK, I am done. Lets get a single site with all the information in one > place. > > Regards, > jason > > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Knut Staring <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the topic of dhis2.org, I would appreciate some input on hisp.info. I > > would like to retire the old Confluence wiki soon. > > > > We do get quite a number of hits to that domain, so we should point it to > > dhis2.org. But there may still be useful stuff there that must be > replicated > > on dhis2.org first? What is still of value? > > > > However, in my opinion, we do still need somewhere which people can edit. > I > > am personally happy to do my edits at http://phitoolkit.org (and will > give > > write access to anyone who asks). > > Or we could add a blog or wiki module to Drupal. > > > > Knut > > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Bob Jolliffe <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Jason > >> > >> 2009/10/28 Jason Pickering <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> Seems like the both work. > >>> > >>> I had another question regarding the links to the Documentation guide > >>> on this node. I have just updated the guide, but now the PDF on the > >>> site is out of sync with the documentation source. > >>> > >>> I would think that there must be some plugin that allows drupal to > >>> render DocBook XML in the site. Is it possible to do this? > >> > >> Don't know drupal well enough but in principle this is possible. The > >> docbook rendering is all done through xslt which can certainly be pushed > >> around through PHP, though the amount of rendering required would be > heavy > >> to do on each request. > >>> > >>> Another possibility would be somehow to produce continuous builds of > >>> the documentation, so that the documentation is always up to date when > >>> linked against the site. I think this would be possible through a > >>> relatively minor shell script. > >>> > >>> Suggestions? I can have a stab at constructing the shell script if it > >>> is possible on the machine which houses the site. > >> > >> Up till now we haven't had shell access to the site. Now I think we do > I > >> think we might be able to make a plan. > >> > >> Regards > >> Bob > >> > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Jason > >>> > >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad < > [email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > 2009/10/28 Bob Jolliffe <[email protected]> > >>> >> > >>> >> OK. Enabled Path module (Clean URLs were already enabled) and now > >>> >> when > >>> >> you edit a page there is an option to set the "user friendly" url. > >>> >> > >>> >> So before where we had http://dhis2.org/node/9 we now have > >>> >> http://dhis2.org/documentation. Cool. > >>> >> > >>> > Will both continue to work ( I can see they are working right now as > >>> > least)? > >>> > I have been using the node-based URLs around the wiki. > >>> > > >>> > Ola > >>> > --------- > >>> > > >>> >> > >>> >> Cheers > >>> >> Bob > >>> >> > >>> >> 2009/10/28 Bob Jolliffe <[email protected]> > >>> >>> > >>> >>> OK. Will take a quick look. > >>> >>> > >>> >>> BTW came across this article yesterday regarding REST, Drupal and > >>> >>> Xproc: > >>> >>> > >>> >>> > http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/xproc-xml-pipelines-and-restfu.html > >>> >>> > >>> >>> Cheers > >>> >>> Bob > >>> >>> > >>> >>> 2009/10/28 Jo Størset <[email protected]> > >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> Den 28. okt. 2009 kl. 11.56 skrev Bob Jolliffe: > >>> >>>> > >>> >>>>> I think there is a drupal config option to enable clean urls. > And > >>> >>>>> it > >>> >>>>> depends upon Apache's modrewrite. pathauto is just extra sugar > to > >>> >>>>> auto > >>> >>>>> magically do the clean url naming for you. > >>> >>>>> > >>> >>>>> Cheers > >>> >>>>> Bob > >>> >>>>> > >>> >>>>> Jo are you "adminning" the site? I can take a quick look if you > >>> >>>>> like. > >>> >>>>> I have the password. > >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> I don´t have the password, so go ahead :) > >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> Jo > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> _______________________________________________ > >>> >> Mailing list: > >>> >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >>> >> Post to : [email protected] > >>> >> Unsubscribe : > >>> >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >>> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >>> >> > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > Mailing list: > >>> > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >>> > Post to : [email protected] > >>> > Unsubscribe : > >>> > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >>> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >>> > > >>> > > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: > >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : > >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Knut Staring > > >
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