Site manager and design, styles and themes

[gxrisan at ubuntucy.org]

MovableType sounds really nice, i'll check it! thanks mate!! :)


> 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 <theo at ubuntucy.org>
> 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 :)
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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