Hello,
- 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?!?
The machines have to run anyway on our Institute and have enough reserves, also Plone is already installed, just have to add a new Plone Site.
- 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.
Thats true, so there are also Reviewers and Owner roles which can handle delegation.
- 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*.
Technical maintainance on the hardware and OS part (Debian linux) has to be done anyway. But in autumn we get a PD-adicted admin which will put an additional eye on this until there we have some plone specialist on the institute.
- 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. ;)
anyhow there is an PHPParser for Zope, but I dont think programing has to be done a lot, but design work should be done with PageTemplates.
- 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.
to thread this disussion, I have set up a wiki-page to discuss the structure, just put some notes inside if you wish something special or dont like something:
http://pd.iem.at/pdwiki/index.php
So I propose most of ideas should go in this Wikipage to be fixed.
The first draft should be done until 26.5, where implementation starts. First ready page beginning of june.
Domain Names:
- I think it is possible with the Virtual hostmonster to have parallel Domainnames, which resolves also to sublinks, if they are not absolute, so the site can be mapped by anyone who likes it as a whole, like (www.supercoolPD.art) but also some homepages can be mapped with a rewriterule on an apache Site.
mfg winfried