Site manager and design, styles and themes

[Theodotos Andreou]

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 :)


gxrisan at ubuntucy.org 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!!!! ;)
>
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