Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Hanson
You might also consider whther Joomla has Wiki and forum modules of its own, that could share a common registration/login system. Drupal (a Joomla competitor, also Open Source) has basic and advanced wiki and forum modules that would leverage off Drupal's own core system, rather than having to

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-03 Thread Thomas Hogarth
Hi Robert >>I do wonder if with having a new and more powerful wiki would open the >>door to better community content and hopefully... documentation. I'm >>wondering whether we can push much of the documentation onto the wiki >>and then have the main website act as a place holder for >>downloads/

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Thomas, On 3 April 2012 14:39, Thomas Hogarth wrote: > I've had a quick go at creating an account on the new MediaWiki system, was > very straight forward. I don't have much experience with web backends but am > very interested in helping out with content and general admin of the new > site.

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-03 Thread Thomas Hogarth
Hi Robert I've had a quick go at creating an account on the new MediaWiki system, was very straight forward. I don't have much experience with web backends but am very interested in helping out with content and general admin of the new site. I've been meaning to create some more detailed informat

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-02 Thread Jason Daly
On 04/02/2012 10:57 AM, Robert Osfield wrote: Hi All, I am currently looking at Joomla, while I read up about it, has anyone else out there worked with Joomla? Thoughts? Hi, Robert, We use Joomla for pretty much all of our web presence here in our lab, as well as for some additional work we

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-02 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi All, As a test of Dreamhost server/services I have put up MediaWiki site for us to experiment with: http://wiki.openscenegraph.com I haven't ever worked with MediaWiki before let alone set one up so it's all rather a new experience. If I've done something dumb, or neglected to set thing

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-02 Thread Robert Osfield
And the next step in my experimentation/learning experience - I've got Joomla installed on: http://www.openscenegraph.com/ No OpenSceneGraph specific content yet kinda run of working day to get much more done right now. I'll see if I can get a banner up before I disappear for the evening

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-02 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi All, I am currently looking at Joomla, while I read up about it, has anyone else out there worked with Joomla? Thoughts? If Joomla doesn't look to daunting I'll try Dreamhosts One Click install and put up something basic on openscenegraph.com and see how I get on. Robert. ___

Re: [osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-02 Thread Mathias Goldau
On 02.04.2012 13:45, Robert Osfield wrote: > Hi All, [...] > In terms of server I have a Dreamhost account that includes full > hosting so moving the OSG website to dreamhost is fine by me - > currently I use Dreamhost's Mailman support to provide the osg-users > mailing list and the blog.opensce

[osg-users] Website, Version control and Server migration

2012-04-02 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi All, Occasionally over the past 6 months we've discussed moving server and services from the present server, but as yet nothing concrete has happened. I'm now ready to knuckle down and make it happen. However, there is still decisions to make and work to do. This I need both your suggestions