[chbot] Does the current web site meet our needs?

[jimmy allen]

Would something like brightsparks (www.brightsparks.org.nz) web site
be too much
It is a flash based site and works fairly well.

On 7/30/09, Richard Jones <rjtp at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> Thanks for the responses and especially Adam for offering to look further
> with Drupal.
> What I would like to achieve is to lower the barriers to posting material,
> especially related to our meetings to increase the number of contributors.
> So that any of us who take photos/video at meetings could post them when
> they get home. This looks like a good topic to discuss at our next session.
> Hopefully we will not divert too much time away from robot construction!
>
> Richard
>
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:04:50 +1200, Adam Freeman <shavenyaknz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hey Richard,
>> I'd be keen to invest time and effort on this one. I use Drupal for my
> site
>> and I think it's pretty cool as a content management system so I'd be
>> pushing that pretty hard (because it's what I know). It does have forum
>> modules and user management so you can easily customize who can do what
> and
>> allow people to opt in/out of mailing lists easily enough.
>>
>> For the Picasa and Youtube stuff although it doesn't have backup
>> capabilities they have APIs so we could write some scripts to grab new
>> content occasionally.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adam.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Richard Jones <rjtp at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> I came across this web site the other day:
>>> http://indoor.afterburn.co.nz/news.php, It uses the e107 content
>>> management
>>> system.
>>> It set me wondering whether our current web site is meeting our needs.
>>> The
>>> web space is generously funded by Hanno. Hanno and I spent an evening or
>>> two setting up our current site http://kiwibots.org using the Joomla
>>> content management system almost two years ago now, following on from
>>> some
>>> experiments that Carl did. The combination of web site and mailing list
>>> is
>>> functional but maybe we could do better.
>>>
>>> What I think we are missing is:
>>> 1. Someone with the time and energy to organise and manage a site.
>>> 2. An easy way for members to contribute and classify photos and videos.
>>> 3. A forum organised by topic.
>>>
>>> I have been wondering about using Picasa for organising pictures and
>>> videos
>>> but as far as I can see it does not offer administrator capabilities so
>>> that we can backup and restore following attacks.
>>> Anyone else have any thoughts or the time/skills to look into this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>
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