On Fri February 27 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:34:02PM +0000, Ed W wrote: > > This might be a bit premature, but while the iron is hot and all that: > > > > 1) Is there any web designer capacity here? Imagine for a moment that > > we want 1-2 websites - who can style and theme these? > > > > 2) Website engine. Anyone here got any experience of web engines which > > can work as the "front of house" site? Michael has offered TikiWiki > > we changed from Tavi (a very simple but efficient wiki) > to MediaWiki because it is supposed to do everything e.g. > Wikipedia has and more, so please let us keep this one > for now, I don't think that we need another Wiki to > migrate to :) > Fine by me. But note that takes it out of my knowledge range. No time to learn anything new - I can only offer what I have knowledge of. But MediaWiki is a popular package - you should be able to find a "MediaWiki God" volunteer. Mike > > (but I'm not sure if that's necessarily the only option for the front > > pages). Other popular engines seem to be Joomla or wordpress? Anyone > > offer the resources to manage the setup of a new front site for vserver? > > > 3) Infrastructure - Anyone want to offer to dedicate an hour or so a > > week to "maintaining" the website infrastructure. Cleaning spam, > > upgrading the software, installing any plugins requested, etc. > > would be very helpfull > > > 4) "How to do xyz?" - my reading of the previous thread is that "vserver > > wiki is excellent as a "reference". However, needs more "trails" for > > new users to graze and more 'how to achieve xyz result' style articles. > > Who can help brush up the existing articles and thread them all together > > into more of a "handbook" style approach? > > > 5) Editors. Anyone want to "own" a chunk of the wiki and "garden it" on > > a regular basis? eg overseeing the creation of a handbook style section > > it would be very helpful to have someone garden that and tag articles as > > needing more work, chopping articles up a bit, correcting smelling > > pistakes, etc. > > good idea > > thanks, > Herbert > > > Here's hoping someone bites... > > > > Ed W > >