Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
- I also can provide DNS and free webspace for this site. It would be
hosted on a Debian-I386 box and I could setup whatever software we decided on.
A 386?!?
- I am definitely willing to do a lot of setup work this summer, and
some of the maintanance for the for the forseeable future. But it should be set up in a way that we can have numerous maintainers.
Several "Admins" are a must, I think. I guess, this could be done with Plone.
- I like the blog aspect of the current site and I think it could
develop into an important resource. I also think that web forums would be very useful, especially if they could be linked with the pd-list.
I wouldn't use a Webforum regularly. I'm very partial to mailing lists - because of their "push" nature: You don't need to do anything to get input. I do see a place for web-interaction and that is discussing of articles that appear on the website. Think Slashdot and also think WikiWeb.
- Of all of the offers on the table, I think that the IEM one is the
best. We get the fat pipe, plenty of disk space, and some maintanance.
Technical maintainance can take loads of time. It's fun, too, but with the IEM idea, I like that it in the end boils down to the IEM guys doing the hard admin stuff. Not that I wouldn't like to help take this burden, but there is a serious problem of coordination. It is IMO important that someone actually *is* responsible for the technical part and that that someone has the right to decide about technical questions in the end. Administration is no area of *debates*, it's *work*.
- I am more partial to PHP since I already know it a bit and it seems
to be a wider standard. But if the concensus is Python or whatever, I am willing to learn. Plone looks promising.
In the end we shouldn't deal much with actual programming of web applications. I mean, this is a *Pd*-community. Leave that to the Plone/PHPNuke/Slashcode guys. ;)
- I think what we should do now before commiting to a new model for the
site is throw out examples of sites out there that we think we should emulate.
Actually plone.org is a good example. They have this categories:
About Plone Development Documentation Downloads Public Relations [Members]
which is exactly how I could figure a future pd.org. I'd also like to see the mailing list archive there, but I'm not sure in which category.
But maybe Winfried could elaborate, why IEM chose Plone?
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__