[webteam] welcome

[Florian Jensen]

Hi,

I know Drupal a bit, and didn't like it that much. Has anyone of you hear
about MODx? It is a great system, as it allows alot of custom code etc.

FJ

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:47:47 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org>
wrote:
> 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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