Yeah that is true, it just depends how pretty and how much control you want over things at the end of the day. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Charles Manning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manningc2@actrix.gen.nz">manningc2@actrix.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The weasel approach to this is to just make it into a google group. That gives<br>
you pretty much everything a group like this needs.<br>
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On Thursday 30 July 2009 08:31:56 Richard Jones wrote:<br>
> I came across this web site the other day:<br>
> <a href="http://indoor.afterburn.co.nz/news.php" target="_blank">http://indoor.afterburn.co.nz/news.php</a>, It uses the e107 content management<br>
> system.<br>
> It set me wondering whether our current web site is meeting our needs. The<br>
> web space is generously funded by Hanno. Hanno and I spent an evening or<br>
> two setting up our current site <a href="http://kiwibots.org" target="_blank">http://kiwibots.org</a> using the Joomla<br>
> content management system almost two years ago now, following on from some<br>
> experiments that Carl did. The combination of web site and mailing list is<br>
> functional but maybe we could do better.<br>
><br>
> What I think we are missing is:<br>
> 1. Someone with the time and energy to organise and manage a site.<br>
> 2. An easy way for members to contribute and classify photos and videos.<br>
> 3. A forum organised by topic.<br>
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> I have been wondering about using Picasa for organising pictures and videos<br>
> but as far as I can see it does not offer administrator capabilities so<br>
> that we can backup and restore following attacks.<br>
> Anyone else have any thoughts or the time/skills to look into this?<br>
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> Richard<br>
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