Having lots of experience with Drupal by now, i'd be willing to donate some time to set up a copy of my installation, which has many essential modules and some features not found in the standard install.
Melanie Justin Clark-Casey wrote: > +1. Sounds good to me if the manpower is available. One small thing - I > hope > by 'transport' you mean copy. I would rather the old wiki remains intact in > some kind of archive location. > > I would suggest it would also be best to do the initial push for a website > overhaul in a subdomain rather than immediately replace the old wiki. Then > when > it reaches a minimally acceptable point the switch could be made. > > One thing potential documentation writers may want to try is going into the > #opensim-dev channels and quizzing developers directly about things. We're > not > all good at writing documentation but everybody is happy to answer questions. > > > Fly Man wrote: >> Since there's long talk about this: >> >> I would like to start by giving out an announcement about the >> OpenSimulator website that some people have been saying the last >> months: >> >> "What the heck is this website, what does it do and where's the info" >> >> After I heard this over and over again, we started the Wiki Hours on >> Wright Plaza on Osgrid only to hear that about everyone thinks the >> same about the website. >> >> Talking in the opensim-dev channel made me realise that it's time to >> grab the bull with its horns and submit a request/suggestion to all >> the questions asked. >> >> Request to make the website OpenSimulator.org a new site: >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> * Make the current wiki a readonly version under /oldwiki >> >> * Make a new webpage for the OpenSimulator website >> >> ** This can easily be made in Drupal or any other CMS system >> >> * Add a new Wiki to the website that has the latest plugins and >> MediaWiki version >> >> * Check the old wiki for things that are recent enough to transport to >> the new Wiki and transport them >> >> In the opensim-dev channel was also the suggestion to add a new >> category to the Mantis "Documentation" and that ppl can add Mantises >> about things that need documentation. >> >> Further: I am suggesting that there are going to be policies to abide >> by (especially thanks to teravus to mention this) >> >> Please reply on this request with a +1 or a -1 and explain why, how >> you see this. >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
