[webteam] welcome

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> On 7/9/07, Sander Devrieze <s.devrieze at pandora.be> wrote:
>> --> That's why I believe we should target the Jabber contributor
>> community instead, much easier and we all have the same goal: a
>> broader adoption of Jabber technologies. So, there will be no
>> conflicts that block the project because people have different goals.
> 
>> So, again, this is how I would like the jabber.org project to be:
>> * workgroups/teams
> 
> Drupal has ways to separate logical groups of a site into separate
> more autonomous pieces each with their own theme, etc.  Think
> slashdot.org vs. games.slashdot.org (altho the theme difference there
> is minimal).  I forget if they call it 'sites' or 'sections' but I
> think you see what I mean.  Why don't we take the different focii and
> give each one its distinct section.  Then we break off into smaller
> groups (or not), but the point here being that we won't confuse
> different audiences.  Once we get further into the site mechanics we
> can work on how to make the various sections visually distinct.
> 
> According to the wiki page, the focii are at present:
> 
>    *  End Users (main focus)
>    * Managers
>    * Server Admins
>    * Developers

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. In the old old days we used to have
dev.jabber.org and so on. So we might have:

users.jabber.org
biz.jabber.org
admins.jabber.org
dev.jabber.org

Or somesuch.

> Peter, how do we get a drupal install going?  

I need to chat with walkah about the Drupal 5 upgrade. Will do that
tonight or tomorrow.

> (not how to install, but
> how to get site write access, db...)  We should be able to make these
> sections and start putting in alpha content almost right away once we
> have the base install up.  That's the coolest part about using a
> modern CMS...the content can be worked on separately  from the design.

You betcha.

> (I would cite the section documentation but drupal.org seems to be
> having issues.)

Er, that's not good. :)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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