Hey Richard,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>
<br></div><div>Adam.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Richard Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjtp@ihug.co.nz" target="_blank">rjtp@ihug.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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>
<br>
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>
<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
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