Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAD website based on PHPNuke and mailinglist proposals ...
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 22:33:05 EEST
Benno Senoner wrote:
> I've read the nice news about the new mailinglists and I think it is good to
> split up the list in a developers and users list.
> (perhaps even a third one: -users for advanced users and -newbies for the
> very linux audio newbies (eg the ones having trouble to invoke a "make" :-) )
wholeheartedly no. who's going to help the newbies if the advanced
users are all on the other list ?
even though it's getting simpler every day to have mailing lists, i
think there are too many already. every little tool has at least
one. (cat-new-features-announce anyone ? or cat-newbies ? cat-gurus
? cat-devel ? cat-advocacy ?)
splitting up a community too much is a Bad Thing.
> Regarding the LAD site, we need something that is more manageable than the
> current static site on linuxdj.com. (where Joern and the others have done a
> nice job).
agreed.
but since i don't even have shell access to linux-audio-dev, i
couldn't check if it runs mysql or something.
btw, the page is not as static as it looks :)
there is a little php going on, you can add new pages or subsections
easily. but you are right, i would die for an underlying database.
> Last year I was fiddling around with the NOPE engine trying to enhance it but
> it turned out to be too limited for my taste so I gave up.
i've been playing with nope as well, and found it pretty
light-weight, although hard to get running.
i need to learn some more SQL stuff to be able to set up a secure
site, but i actually have nope running on my devel box, and i had
intended to set up a nope forum as the first page on the lad site.
> But in the meantime I've found another story server (slashdot-like) which
> works very very well and where I think that it offers most stuff we need to
> manage a community driven protal.
> It is called PHPNuke (see http:///phpnuke.org)
seen it. looks nice, but used to have horrible security problems
when i last checked, so i didn't take a closer look. might be sorted
out now, don't know.
> I have it already running on a little P2P newssite managed by me and few
> friends of mine
>
> see here:
> http://www.abctella.com
nice one.
> the neat thing of PHPNuke is that you can manage the entire portal through a
> simple web interface without the hassle of doing ftps, writing HTML pages ecc.
that's a great advantage.
> This time I will not fail to deliver the promise (like with the NOPE stuff)
> since I have the PHPNuke stuff already running and a new install means only a
> copy operation, so no big deal)
great.
which box will host it ?
last time i checked, the php module on linuxdj.com was so f&%$§ing
ancient you couldn't even do basic authentication stuff, so i gave
up implementing a mechanism for news submissions.
-.-
if you set up such a beast, i'm on the bus.
however, i would like a few things to remain as they are, namely the
color scheme (corresponding to the logo), the static pages and the
correctness of the code, which currently is pretty rotten ;-)
(http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abctella.com%2F&doctype=Inline)
did i mention that nitpicker is my middle name ?
regards,
jörn
-- Jörn Nettingsmeier home://Kurfürstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany phone://+49.201.491621 http://icem-www.folkwang-hochschule.de/~nettings/ http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/
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