Hi All, As most of you will know that the present openscenegraph.org Tracs based website has been unresponsive in the last week and even over the last few months has been pretty patchy. I've discussed previously about the need to move to new a server for new website and adoption of new version control system. For now subversion still looks to be relatively reliable on the old servers so don't believe this is a critical issue to deal with right away - the website is out of action so this will be focus for the short term. Items like public support, merging submissions will take a lower priority for me untill we get a basic functional website back online.
Unfortunately the timing isn't ideal as it's Easter holidays so I have all my children home and extended family staying with us so I have a household with party atmosphere which is fun, but... not so good for learning about server/web technologies and actually implementing a website. What time I have had on the computer I've put into learning and experimenting with Joomla hosted on Dreamhost. I've set up so that my experiments with Joomla are up at http://www.openscenegraph.com. There is the beginnings of what could become our new website, I'm still very new to website tech and am far from a graphic designer in terms of skills so it's crude, but I'm encouraged enough to believe that it will be possible to master Joomla and make a website that fits our project needs. Given that the old website is out of action right now I'm happy to just get something basic up so at least we have some online presence, so rather than keep hunting around for the perfect server and website solution I think it be worth just going with Joomla and fixing up what I've already put up to make it functional. If Joomla doesn't work well for the basics then we can look at other solutions, but for now time is too critical to go debating options - we need a solution quick. So... here am I a novice on the website and server side, rather feeble linguist and graphics artist and short of time as well, all together I don't make an idea person to take on whole task of building a new website. I need the communities help. I would love to here from engineers that have Joomla experience or are willing to pitch in with learning it in short order, or have time and skills that suit the task of building a new website. Joomla allows us to have user logins to the website and to grant users different sets of rights to edit and maintain the website. If you can help out please create yourself a login and let me know what areas of the website you think you could help out with and between us we can decide who tackles what, and I'll grant the appropriate rights. I'm still learning Joomla so if you have experience with maintaining websites with Joomla then you insights on what rights to grant to who and how to go about managing things would be very much appreciated. As getting a new website is a critical issue right now I'm putting on hold merging of submissions and doing public support so please be patient with this, and if you'd like me to be back tackling these types of task quickly then helping out with the website will speed this up. Please don't be shy with coming forward, the OpenSceneGraph project (website) needs YOU :-) Thanks in advance for your assistance, Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
