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

[Charles Manning]

The weasel approach to this is to just make it into a google group. That gives 
you pretty much everything a group like this needs.


On Thursday 30 July 2009 08:31:56 Richard Jones 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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