Some comments below (don't worry - no actual contributions - just being conversational - skip if your'e busy)
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Amir Eldor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> (After Tzafrit Cohen yelled at me a bit): >> I was mistaken. I forgot to mention I had to install IkiWiki on a CentOS >> 6 system. >> > Free clones of "enterprise" distros are about the worst possible choice of OS for a volunteer-based org (little/no community support, outdated package base, no option for support contracts). But I guess you can't look a gift horse in the mouth... > Being unfamiliar with Perl, its modules, and RPM-based distros, it took >> me a while to understand what I'm doing (bexol zot, psixometri namoox). >> There's a .deb package for Debian and Debian-based distros for IkiWiki. >> That makes installation easier, I tried it on a Debian host I own. >> >> Oh, I've just remembered. The wiki default creation script of IkiWiki is >> a bit weird. It creates the wiki under your $HOME, and then when moving it >> around the filesystem to an appropriate location, you have to manually edit >> the configuration file for that wiki and run a setup on it again. A minor >> annoyance though. >> >> Some points to make out about Linux.org.il's features as I see it now >> after reading your emails: >> - It should be a Wiki editable online >> - Should be served as static HTML pages just because it sounds awesome >> - Should be based on text files rather than MySQL or other databases >> engines, just because it's cool and you can distribute the content easily >> that way on a GitHub/BitBucket instead of forcing users to start installing >> database engines and distribute all kinds of database dumps >> >> I'm hungry. >> >> Hope you got something to eat. This is really important :-) > So I guess we are going to stick with IkiWiki and hope we won't have to >> use a RPM-based distro on the final HaMakor server that will host the >> website. >> >> It's not the package format you should worry about. RPM's work nicely with proper management tools (they can even work with apt). Just stay away from Enterprise distros and their clones if you can (unless you have resident linux gurus on payroll and/or support contract. or few very special cases I can think of). With a community-driven distro like e.g. Fedora, you are very likely to find all packages you need a click away. Anyways, I believe that Hamakor runs Ubuntu - so you are fine there. > Next steps: >> - Me learning how to theme IkiWiki (should be easy through one of its >> plugins) >> - We deciding on who's going to graphically design the Linux.org.ilwebsite >> :( - @board: are we willing to pay for this or do we stick to some >> ugly GIMP-based mockup that someone can hack for us? >> >> Two separate issues: 1) logos/etc (which are possible to do in GIMP, but better if you use some vector program) - it is quite possible to get nice graphics from volunteers here. Look for the people that produced the stickers / T shirts etc. for AP or other community sites/events. Post suggestions on the wiki and ask for feedback. 2) The page design (css, html templates) - this is the kind of thing that people are more likely to complain about than contribute - I would not hope too high (btw - does ikiwiki use some specific template engine? Does it have a theme/skin facility?) AA
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