[clue] [TALK] Ultimate home for the CLUE Website

[Philipp Giddings]

Most LAMP applications are html and php with mysql backend. I believe 
that this is true for Drupal as well.
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On 6/8/2011 2:08 PM, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
>
> The purpose of the website is to reliably provide information about the
> club and promote Linux, is it not? If you want to experiment and create
> situations where things are unstable, perhaps there should be
> 'beta.cluedenver.org' and then a functional main site.
>
> I'd be happy to offer some advice, but it seems like there are already
> far too many cooks in this particular kitchen. It's been said already,
> creating a CMS driven website isn't rocket science. It seems we're over
> thinking this -- a lot.
>
> Not everything needs a steering committee. I'm not sure if CLUE has
> bylaws or any particular structure, but perhaps there should be a
> 'website admin' position within the CLUE to achieve the aforementioned
> goal.
>
> Jeff
> _______________________________________________
>
> The primary purpose of the website is information, not to be a 
> playground, which means it needs to be stable.  Shawn did an upgrade 
> to Drupal today, which might help.  Bluehost is having problems this 
> week so the site is still slow and hard to test but it has not crashed.
>
> I selected Drupal to make it easy for people to edit the site.  The 
> old site is a combination of html and php, which many people in the 
> group don't know.  Drupal also lets us assign different levels of 
> access to people who want to help with the site.  That does not mean 
> that everyone in CLUE will have editor privileges, let alone 
> administrator access.
>
> A sandbox site can be set up to allow testing of new features.  I 
> think we will do so after we are done making this site work properly.
>
> When we voted this spring, I agreed to take over as webmin for this 
> year.  The Drupal committee is a working committee to move everything 
> over to Drupal and get things working.  It was not intended to be 
> something permanent.
>
>
>
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