On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:30 PM, ashik salahudeen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since our google group is added to Gmane, migrating the past emails > shouldn't be a problem as the emails could be downloaded as mbox. Even > though google groups provides indexing and such, i think its better to > rely on our own server space for mailinglist as well. > > If this is not a big problem we can go for it. > I had planned to create the website using django, and had drawn up an > initial solution which abandoned the threaded mailinglist format for a > stackoverflow.com style Q&A. i.e store the question and answer as > emails with mailman, but provide a web ui which will display these in > the stackoverflow style, with a ratings system tacked on. I couldn't > complete it , partially due to lack of time but mostly due to lack of > motivation. If you can share the code through some sites like bitbucket.org or github we can can call for volounteers to finish it. Getting a new site is the dream, nead and action item of all lugies in this group. > There are existing django solutions that provide the > stackoverflow like UI , but some work has to be done to bolt it on to > a mailman instance. This is a good candidate for a hobby project :) > There are other web ui designs proposed for displaying a mailinglist - > eg: > http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/a-rich-web-interface-for-mailing-lists/ > . In fact I am ready to post a reward. > > I am ready to gift a domain name + 1 GB webspace with unlimited > bandwidth for a year to whoever can implement either of the proposed > UIs in django. > > This may or may not be used for the fsug-tvm website, but will be > great for some similar discussion groups who want to host their > website and mailing-list themselves. > > Is any body wiiling to colaborate with this project !!! -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
