Subject: Re: [vserver] Call to arms
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:50:30 -0600

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
> 
>