Hi Lin, We had some discussions last Summer about using Drupal. I had suggested at one time to use Drupal for both the s-w.org home pages and documentation. Personally, I love Drupal and run about a dozen sites right now. I'm sure just about any other system/software would work fine, however, it comes down to active membership. Setting up a Drupal site is the easy part! Long term maintenance is key. Drupal takes a lot of effort on the server/site admin part (updating modules, Drupal core, etc..) The people running the servers/sites long-term would need to have this experience.
It may be just my impression but our S-W community is likely not large enough, nor with appropriate funding, to pay for some ISP/web service and always be sure to have enough web experience in whatever system we go with. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we do have active members that are not able to contribute because of technology barriers or other reasons. I don't know. At this point, I believe the experience and time of the core developers and sys admins need to have highest consideration. With this in mind, one suggestion I had was to go with Wordpress for the main home page and sub pages. This site would also be used as a blog, for announcements, or anything else that comes up. Actually, a Wordpress site already exists on that server. A few people would have editing and blogging privileges on this site. Each person would need approved, which could be based on the amount of contributions in the documentation wiki, mailing list, or code patches. Documentation would still be on the current Mediawiki site, although we'd need to get some volunteers that understand Mediawiki to work on styling and maybe some configuration. The examples on s-w.org and trunk.s-w.org would still remain the same, through svn. Most of the examples are created/edited by code developers, testing new features or patches, and therefore svn is not a barrier to them. The examples are a great way to test code or to show new ideas. These are just some thoughts. Let me know what you think. - John ************************************************** John Callahan, Geographic Information Scientist Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu ************************************************** On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Lin Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > I am an active member of the Drupal community and have used Exhibit in a > number of projects. I would be happy to help set up a Drupal site for > Exhibit documentation if that would help... I think Exhibit is a great tool > and it would be great to see more users diving in. > > Cheers, > Lin > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:03 PM, mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After several weeks of stabbing at this, I am proud to say that I >> managed to fix the single line of HTML on the website that was linking >> to the old Google code documentation instead of the simile-widgets.org >> Wiki. That should help people find the most current and complete >> documentation for the project. >> >> Unfortunately, when I tried to update the links for the sub-projects' >> pages (e.g. Timeplot) I discovered that the procedure is different, >> and that what I checked out of svn doesn't match the HTML on the live >> site, so I'm stuck again. >> >> While this method of maintaining the doc is clever, avoiding the need >> for extra account management and a CMS, I have concluded that it's a >> process that would exclude any but the most determined who aren't >> already active committers. So I'd like to check with you all to see if >> you think anyone else (like me) *would* maintain the doc and might >> prefer a different/more traditional process for that? For example, a >> simple CMS on the simile-widgets.org website? John, what do you think? >> >> MacKenzie >> >> On Mar 23, 6:31 pm, mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mar 23, 9:39 am, John Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > I had thought all of thedocumentationwas moved from the two older >> wikis to >> > > the new one athttp://simile-widgets.org/wiki/. >> > >> > I think I see the problem now. >> > >> > Thedocumentationwikiathttp://simile-widgets.org/wiki/ >> > isn't linked anywhere fromhttp://www.simile-widgets.org/ >> > The main page only points tohttp:// >> code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/w/list >> > so there's no way (that I could find) to get to the >> realdocumentationwiki >> > unless you already know that URL. >> > >> > Easy enough to fix, but we need to fix all the subpages too, >> > e.g. >> http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/andhttp://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ >> > >> > MacKenzie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SIMILE Widgets" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<simile-widgets%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SIMILE Widgets" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<simile-widgets%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. 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