Theodotos, >From the CMS point, a good choice is MovableType: based on Perl, fast and easy to tune, almost like Wordpress: http://www.movabletype.org/
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Theodotos Andreou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grigori I don't think yet another CMS system is what the community really > needs. There is a load of CMS systems as this list in wikipedia shows and we > could find one to match our needs: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems > > Some of them are based on perl which may relieve you from the security > worries of php. > > Regarding Voting... Debian does not allow anyone on vote. Only the well > known contributors and that makes perfect sense. In our case we could set a > minimum karma rating in launchpad and anybody above that be given the right > to vote. Which reminds me that I have a karma of merely 1 and I need to get > my hands on more active contributions on launchpad :) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Great, I hope we won't need any more resources, since transferring > websites is always a painful operation... well, at least for me :) > > I could take over the website management somewhere around september / > october, until then I have my exam period, (each month for each exam), > so I have to say no to do that. > For now, I'll have to stick to handling the mailing list and the wiki > pages organization. > > The reason I wanted it on my account was because they have one click > installations, one-click upgrades (especially for wordpress) and > maintaining it would be really quick. > > > Do not worry mate with proper configuration we can have one click updates > too. Also another thing that we must have in mind, for example lets say > that we update phpbb for example and the php version that is running on > that server is vulnerable then......from the Poli i come and Cinnamon on > the top!!! > > > > > Honestly, I don't really care who maintains the website or which one > is the server, as long as they know what they're doing and keep an > updated software, and know how to update quickly & effortlessly (not > keeping the site down for 1+ days and updating to the most secure > version of that time) > phpBB3 as forum software is really easy for installs and upgrades, > even for modified (addons) forums, you've made a great choice there :) > > > by the way phpbb is not great at all cause is in php, but of course that's > a personal opinion!! :) > to be honest as soon as i find something in perl, and time i will change > the forum. > > > > > I wanted to beautify the website a bit, for two reasons: > 1) I wanted to attract more people through a nice looking website (we > all know how compiz-fusion attracts users to play with gnu/linux > software) > 2) I wanted an easy way to add news, even for simple users, with post > and publish buttons etc. > As I said, there's no reason to rush, we still have a long way to go. > > > Users, from my experience that they get fascinated from anims,fancy colors > and thinks like that, in time they are not giving much attention to what > the community will do. What im trying to say is, ok, lets make the page > better, but it would be extremely better and wiser in my opinion to > provide 'juice' and content of how to do things, and make them start > getting active in the community with one way or another, instead of saying > nice looking web page!!! > > > > > You can put a voting poll in the forum about designing the website, be > sure to post the link here as well. > I will not take any serious actions before knowing the members' > opinion. As you said, ala debian :) > I suggest to put two polls: 1) If they want to change the design to > dynamic php 2) The software cms they would like us to use: joomla, > wordpress, drupal, or any other suggestions > > > Joomla is the worst thing happen after acpi. im sure that we can find > something much much better or even create one from scratch!! ( now that's > a good project for the community , i know that we can find something > ready made) > Now for the voting, someone to vote for something like that must have at > least some basic knowledge about this kind of things. In my opinion a > voting will not be a good idea of what to put in the page cause probably > someone may vote without think about the consequences of his choice or > without even knowing!!! Im not saying that to offend anyone but that's the > true, some people are good in somethings that some other people aren't. > > > Savva when you have time you can do whatever you want with the webpage > design and things like that. But for the moment lets keep some of the > things that we use as they are. Proposals for changes and updates are more > than welcome. : ) if they are feasible of course!!! And one final thing > .....people lets get concentrated in a good community project instead of > thinking that the page is not in the ubuntu colors!!! ;) lets put > content in, articles, opinions, ideas, presentations for november, and > discussions!!! > > cheers!!!! ;) > > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-cy mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cy > > -- A.Vystavkin Personal Weblog: http://j4vk.com
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