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

[Richard Jones]

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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