<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On Monday 17,May,2010 03:23 PM, Prakash Advani wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0EEFD.9010403@ubuntu.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> On Monday 17 May 2010 12:49 PM, C David Rigby wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0EE14.30609@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> On Monday 17,May,2010 03:16 PM, Prakash Advani wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0ED45.9010506@ubuntu.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> On Monday 17 May 2010 12:26 PM, C David Rigby wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0E8BB.80909@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> On Monday 17,May,2010 02:47 PM, Ho Yi Hao Pipat wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTimTrISZd5dYRxKgbYxOBunsK1hgyvJzbK3IwAqU@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Hi, <div> </div> <div>I got a few question though. Must the site be on drupal? I can help maintaining if the site was on wordpress or something. </div> <div> </div> Hello Yi Hao, </blockquote> I freely admit to being a Drupal partisan. Yes it is harder to learn, but it provides much more functionality and is far more customizable. It is designed to be a CMS for building online community sites. I am not wedded to it, though. If we, as a group, want something else, fine. Wordpress seems to me to be primarily a blogging-oriented CMS, but I admit that I do not know it nor the full extent of its capabilities. AFAIK, we could get a free WordPress blog on the wordpress.com site. Does that meet our needs? </blockquote> I have used Wordpress, its easier than most other content management systems. Use it if you are happy with blogs/static pages and photo album.. but don't need any more features (wiki, etc) However drupal and other content management systems will offer more features like Wiki Modules. Whats important is also who is managing the site and what tools they are comfortable with. I am quite comfortable with Wordpress and run my own Blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cityblogger.com">http://cityblogger.com</a> . I am happy to help. My suggestion is as follows. - We can leverage some cloud instances offered by Amazon to host the website. - I have shared hosting on Dreamhost and I also also provide some hosting space. </blockquote> Hello Prakash, Thanks for the input and the offer of support. Can you point me to links on the Amazon service? </blockquote> Amazon EC2 offer cloud services. Kingsley Wood (copied) from Amazon is offered free credits to people attending my talk. Can we given them credit in terms of putting their logo of they provide this? My blog space is still available. BTW Wordpress is multi user.. </blockquote> I cannot answer for the whole group concerning adding a logo for Amazon to the site. Typically, though, I have included sponsors logos and links on other community sites that I have set up in the past. This is standard practice, so I would advocate for it here. Thanks for the input on Wordpress. I will try to devote some time to researching its features in the near future. Cheers David <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0EEFD.9010403@ubuntu.com" type="cite"> <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0EE14.30609@gmail.com" type="cite"> As far has hosting on your account, that is great. We would not need a great deal of storage. Regards, David <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0ED45.9010506@ubuntu.com" type="cite"> <blockquote cite="mid:4BF0E8BB.80909@gmail.com" type="cite"> What sorts of maintenance tasks would you be comfortable doing? In other words, to you want to write articles, do administrative work, some combination there of? Cheers David </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Prakash Advani | <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cityblogger.com">http://cityblogger.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Prakash Advani | <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cityblogger.com">http://cityblogger.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>