[clue-admin] [Fwd: changing website]

[Dennis J Perkins]

> 
> > As to whether we should choose a wiki or a blog, I think it depends on
> > what we want to do.  A wiki is good for organizing lots of information.
> > A blog is better for someone posting his thoughts and getting comments.
> > I think a wiki might be better for our needs, but maybe someones sees
> > how to use a blog for a group.
> 
> The core function of the website is to provide information to
> participants in CLUE, mostly in the way of what the meeting schedule is,
> and Installfests. In that way, it's more like a blog than a wiki. But it
> also should have the function of a scheduler, i.e. a calendar app.
> Announcements are like a blog function, but there's a record (or should
> be) of each meeting, which is a seperate thing.
> 
> > Mediawiki would work.  A Chicago Linux group uses it.  One speaker
> > copied our website for his presentation.
> 
> I hope a copy of that is available.

The link isn't working.  I can ask Nick if he still has it.


> >  Mediawiki offers multiple
> > passwords and password levels.  It's not hard to use; just learn a very
> > simple markup language.
> 
> There's more to it than that, because there are customizations, at least
> in the configuration, which we would need to suit our needs. At least I
> think that's the case.

Nick Verbeck offered to help set it up.




> I think it'd be reasonable to use a Wiki to maintain requirements and
> specifications. I'm not particularly thrilled with being the guy who
> maintains access privileges to that Wiki, nor do I want it to be publicly
> accessible. Not sure exactly what the access levels ought to be. But I'll
> do it, if nobody else steps up. We can host it on the CLUE server, or use
> a service such as WikiDot.
> 
> jed


I don't know how open it should be.  I think one section should be open
to the admin group only, but maybe part of it could be open to members
who ask for a password to make edits.

I will look at at Mediawiki's password system a bit more.  I don't know
if any blog offers multiple passwords and access levels.  Mediawiki
offers built-in revision control.  You can see older revisions and roll
revisions back.  


I need to make an emergency trip to Louisiana tomorrow to fix a customer
problem in.  This won't be fun and a lot of flights were cancelled due
to bad weather in parts of the US. Hopefully my flights won't get
cancelled.  I'll look at this again when I get back.