Subject: Re: [vserver] Call to arms
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:37:51 +0100

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 :)

> (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